Participação popular nos comitês de bacia hidrográfica: do discurso à prática na sub-bacia do Ribeirão Jequitibá - MG

Abstract

The decentralized and participatory management of water resources is one of the greatest challenges today in an attempt to promote equalization between the consumption of natural resources and the maintenance of environmental quality. This issue has led different areas related to the theme to develop governance models that enable inheritance through the different uses of water combined with preservation actions in an attempt to guarantee its stock function. The hydrographic basin subcommittees and committees are consultative councils whose actions are supported by the Brazilian water resources policy, which have solidified themselves as participatory bodies in the decentralized management of hydrographic basins in Brazil. However, much has been researched about the effective popular participation in these councils, since they are composed of different social actors, with different social capital and respectively different interests. In this work, we sought to analyze the presence-absence relationship in the subcommittee meetings of Ribeirão Jequitibá, in addition to carrying out a Factor Analysis by Correspondence (AFC) of the words present in the ATAS, allowing an interpretation regarding the effective occupation of the chairs that represent the different segments of society and the formation of semantic groups operate in the reporting of meetings.