The conflict mediation in Brazilian water resource management / A mediação de conflitos na gestão de recursos hídricos no Brasil

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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In the last few decades, began a process of change in public management. In particular, with regard to water resources, you can see that the thinking about that change is related to the theoretical discussion on governance of water, which requires that management should be participatory, integrated, decentralized, by river basin and mechanisms conflicts of a quick, peaceful and satisfactory. The political changes and the theoretical debates reciprocal are implied in this process, which shows the process of building the National Water Resources Policy (PNRH), which provides a management by consensus, in the bodies collegiate bodies as the Committee on Watershed (CBH), formed by various sectors of society, divergent in its interests, and with the important task of making decisions on water management and environmental, vital and scarce ambient good. The conflicts that are inherent in the human condition, will be qualified for the complex relations environmental, social and economic involving the function of the CBH, in addition to the difficult communication between different visions and different languages, all considered legitimate. It is essential to dealing with conflicts, turning them in a positive way, that is, understanding as the possibility of personal and social development. The traditional forms of dispute resolution used by the law are influenced by the positivist thought, binary thought and exculpatory, beyond fomenting the adversariedade, it tends to value only one truth, an understanding the problem through one vision of. Not allowing the diversity and also does not show appropriate to promote cooperation, co-responsibility, the effective participation, social inclusion, policy guidelines established by the PNRH. Of this form, it must be searched alternative ways, that materialize such cited lines of direction. The Mediation, procedure in which an impartial third party facilitates communication so that the people involved resolve its own conflicts, stresses cooperation, equal participation, citizenship, building relationships and preventing future disputes. It is based on interdisciplinary, could contribute to the change of paradigm in dealing with conflicts on environmental issues, on which the CBH has legal competence to solve. This paper aims to demonstrate that mediation, for dealing with conflicts within a more inclusive, participatory and ternary way is the most appropriate to deal with conflicts around the water, that the positivist and binary vision of this law in other forms of resolution in accordance with the option of management and governance of the type of water that Brazil has adopted in its environmental policies. This research will examine the theories on governance of water, the Brazilian socio-legal context, the theory of mediation and its applicability in environmental issues and demonstrate that mediation is appropriate means to be used by the CBH to exercise its jurisdiction to resolve legal disputes related with the Water Resources

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water resources recursos hídricos governança governance conflito conflicts mediação mediation

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