Social Capital and Collective action in the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí watershed management: The challenges of participatory management of Cantareira System / Capital social e ação coletiva na gestão das bacias dos rios Piracicaba, Capivari e Jundiaí: os desafios da gestão compratilhada do Sistema Cantareira - SP

AUTOR(ES)

Fabiana Barbi

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The renovation of the water permit that makes possible the reversion of water from the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiaí (PCJ) river basin to supply the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region, through Cantareira System, consisted of an important decision making moment on the water management. With regard to that and to the decentralization process on water management, that enables the participation of several actors with the Integrated Water Management (IWM) in Sao Paulo, the conciliation of interests, cooperation among actors and conflict negotiation have become necessary. This research aimed to analyze how the existence of cooperation among the members of the PCJ River basin Committee contributed to strengthen their negotiation capacity during the process of renovation of the Cantareira System water permit. A questionnaire, applied to the members, enabled the observation of cooperation and other elements that constitute the concept of social capital among them. It was possible to observe that the PCJ Committee has an organization structure that enables a satisfactory performance on the decision making process, resource mobilization, communication and conflict resolution. It was also observed that among them there are consistent cooperation, trust, solidarity and reciprocity relations, through which institutional arrangements were built to solve problems related to the water management. With the new water permit, the System operation has become more decentralized and transparent. All the process contributed to develop and strengthen the existent social capital and ties among the actors. It also contributed to the technical and political maturity of PCJ Committee, to its capacity of negotiating the common resource and to the institutionalization of IWM in the search for an integrated water management.

ASSUNTO(S)

política ambiental integrated water management social capital participação gestão compartilhada de recursos hídricos environmental policy capital social participation

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