Cibernética organizacional para o diagnóstico e o design da governança multinível dos recursos hídricos
Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches, problems of multi-level governance persist and compromise the sustainability of water resources in Brazil. This research presents an approach to guide the diagnosis and design of complex adaptive systems: a context-sens...
| Autor principal: | Alves, Juliana Mariano |
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| Idioma: | pt_BR |
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2022
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http://hdl.handle.net/11612/4020 |
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Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches,
problems of multi-level governance persist and compromise the sustainability of water
resources in Brazil. This research presents an approach to guide the diagnosis and design
of complex adaptive systems: a context-sensitive assessment of water governance at
various levels. Combined with the specifications of a management process change, it fills
the theoretical and methodological gaps observed between centralized and hierarchical
forms of water resources management. It also addresses the urgent demand for recursively
distributed structures, which use vertical and horizontal coordination as a primary
alignment mechanism, suitable for dealing with the environmental complexity inherent
to River Basin Organizations (RBOs). The approach aims to address challenges identified
in the application of the formal institutional framework of Integrated Water Resources
Management (IWRM) and in the practice of water governance, combining the positivist
and interpretivist traditions for the diagnosis, design and analysis of the Viable System
Model (VSM) in the Formoso River Basin. The focus is on the processes of implementing
the formal institutional framework of IWRM at a regional and local scale and its
incorporation into a multi-level water governance system in a broader environmental and
social context. Strategies consistent with the formalized representation of the current
situation of water governance were proposed based on an extensive literature review and
exploratory study of the Formoso River Basin (BHRF). The emerged conceptual and
methodological framework served to the identification of a series of factors considered
relevant for understanding the performance of environmental governance and RBOs. The
framework offers a cybernetic approach to analyzing the complex and multifaceted
phenomenon through the horizontal and vertical coordination of multi-level governance.
The results include the identification of multiple paths that can lead to an improvement
or a decline in the viability of RBOs. |