Governança dos recursos hídricos e os comitês de bacia no estado brasileiro de Goiás

Abstract

This paper starts from the perspective that we can analyze the Watershed Committees as governance arrangements that have responsibilities related to mediating, articulating, approving and monitoring the actions for the management of the water resources of their jurisdiction. In their structure, these instances are composed of a plurality of individual actors or interrelated organizations in a policy-driven network and operate as spaces for decisionmaking power between government actors, representatives of civil society, the private sector and of users with regard to water management. Thus, the interaction of a diversity of public, market and civil actors in the process of formulating public policies, with different capacities, interests and incentives, interacting in these spaces requires, for its analysis, a systemic approach associated/combined with conceptual bases on governance perspective of the “collective” proposed by Chhotray and Stoker (2009). Governance arrangements of the basin committees type seek collective decision-making and improvement of water policy formulation processes, and it is important to unveil: Who are the actors who participate in them?