Hidrossolidariedade como princípio de gestão participativa de risco de inundações por associação de bacia / Hydrosolidarity as a principle of participative management of flood risk for basin association

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Throughout the XXI century, a culture of solidarity within a river basin is based on legal aspects. In Brazil, it is legitimated by the Federal Constitution of 1988, article 225, caput, "Everybody is entitled to a ecologically-balanced environment, as well of common using by the people and essential to a healthy life quality, being imposed to the Public Power and the collective society the duty to defend it and to preserve it for the presents and future generations". In the article 3 states about the fundamental objectives of the Federal Republic of Brazil, where in the item I says "to build a free, just and solidarity society." Still in this context, the Brazilian Civil Code, in the article 265 mentions "... the solidarity it is not presumed by itself; it is the result by law or by the willingness of the parties...." Also, seeking a shared management, the Federal Law 9.433/1997 mention in the article 1 "... the river basin is a territorial unit for water policies... (V)", and "... water resources should be decentralized and to count with the participation of the Public Power, of the users and of the communities" (VI). Thus, the "hydrosolidarity" emerged from those fore-mentioned contexts at national and international arena. This research assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of hydrosolidarity, thereby analyzing an application to urban drainage with community participation. Although hydrosolidarity is a concept not well known in Brazil, this research studied the feasibility of this concept with stakeholder and at different scales, either at the domiciliary lot or at the whole river basin scale. The methodology evaluated incentives for the communitys users that accepted the tools of hydrosolidarity front to environmental problems in the management of urban floods. Those attitudes promoted stimuli toward citizenship solidarity and responsibility at spatiotemporal dimensions. Urban river basin users participated through the statements of the bylaws of a river basin association officially constituted through this research: the "Association Friends of Tijuco Preto River Basin". Through personal interviews to uses from two urban river basins, Tijuco Preto and Gregório, some doubts and feedbacks were surveyed in order to propose planning and decisionmaking on water management featured as participative, integrated and continuous. Results of the research depicted that social stakeholders had interests and willingness to develop and share their knowledge on flood risk management as well their participative solidarity to be applied into the community looking forward to achieving a higher environment and human well-being.

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flood risk management hidrossolidariedade hydrosolidarity river basin association associação de bacia hidrográfica gestão de risco de inundação

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