Muddy Waters: The Political Construction of Deliberative River Basin Governance in Brazil
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Rebecca Neaera Abers [2] ; Margaret E. Keck [1]
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[1] Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
Estados Unidos
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[2] Instituto de Ciência Política, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, Brazil
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- Localización: International journal of urban and regional research, ISSN 0309-1317, Vol. 30, Nº. 3, 2006, págs. 601-622
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Over the last two decades, numerous international conferences and organizations have espoused managing water as an economic good, involving participatory forums in systems of decentralized management at the river-basin level. In the 1990s, Brazil adopted such a model. More than a simple transfer of power from the national to the local level or from bureaucratic to deliberative decision-making, however, this process requires multi-directional power transfers among a variety of policy arenas and actors and among national, state, municipal and river-basin institutions, as well as a complex — and ongoing — negotiation over the meanings of both water pricing and participation. Focusing on the politics of reform legislation in the state of São Paulo and nationally, the article examines how political-institutional features of federalism and executive-legislative relations constrained the passage of reform legislation, and how pro-reform actors attempted to surmount such institutional limitations with networking strategies and by fostering incremental changes in practices on the ground.
