Governance, water security and citizenship in Brazil, 2019
Palabras clave:
Water governance, water security, sustainability, Brazil, federalism.Resumen
Even though benefitting from over 12% of the world’s surface freshwater, Brazil nevertheless has undergone increasingly frequent water scarcity
crises in both rural and urban areas. This paper presents the results of an exploratory research water security issues in Brazil, developed according to a three-step methodology. The concept of water security is discussed based on a review of the literature, taking into account the sustainability criterion. An institutional analysis of water governance in Brazil, summarized from the
perspective of water security, based on Brazilian constitutional mentions related to water, followed by the identification of policy initiatives at national
and subnational level.
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