Challenges of water governance: The concept of hydro-social territories and institutional arrangements
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https://doi.org/10.1590/s0103-4014.2021.35102.011Keywords:
Water governance, Water basins, Hydro-social territories, Multiscaling, MultidimensionalityAbstract
Water governance is understood as a set of political, organizational and administrative processes and strategies, within predefined structures, that lead to decision-making. These decisions produce scales that go beyond management planning units and constitute networks of power that articulate different players according to the interests and objects under negotiation. Thus, it is understood that water governance transcends the physical boundaries of the planning units and assumes dynamic, flexible and multiscale configurations that reflect hydro-social relations. In this sense, the concept of hydro-social territory, which comprises socio-environmentally and spatially delimited and activated multiscale networks to ensure access to water, could provide the basis for new water governance practices.
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