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Coordinator
Ana Paula Fracalanza
Professor
University of São Paulo
Water Governance Institutions and its challenges in Iberoamerica
Thematic Lines
Water governance has been thought as a novel way of management of this natural resource, which incorporates social actors to environmental policy planning.
In this sense, new institutions that take on shared water management add to traditional ones, which implement public policies.
The aim of this round table is to discuss water governance and its challenges in Spain, Brazil, and Mexico, taking account of scarcity situations, conflicts, and participation, in the climate change context.
September 25
Morning - 9:00 ~ 12:00
Afternoon - 14:00 ~ 16:30
Coordinator
Pedro Roberto Jacobi
Professor
University of São Paulo
Theoretical debates on the relationships between Water Governance and Climate Change
Coordinator
Vanessa Lucena Empinotti
Post-Doctorate
University of São Paulo
Think Water and the demand for new concepts: Water Grabbing, Virtual Water, Hydro Accounting and Transparency
Water is the main medium through which climate change influences ecosystems and its impacts on societies. Climate change and the occurrence of extreme climatic phenomena affect availability and distribution of rain and snow, river and underground aquifers flow, and deteriorate all of them
The matters intended to be tackled are associated with vulnerability, water deficit, and Governance. These affect almost every economic aspect and, in particular, food production and security, public supply and sanitation, energy and industry, health, and environmental sustainability. One of the greatest challenges ahead is the adaptation to climate change, intimately linked to water and its relationship
September 26
Morning - 9:00 ~ 24:30
Issues relating to the study of water reflect the new dynamics occurring in practice, involving political actors and strategies for access to this feature.
The acquisition of large parcels of land for food production and biofuels for investors and countries, recognition of global flows of water for exporting food, discussion of the accounting of water in production processes, as well as transparent decision making processes add new insights into the dynamics of access and governance of such a feature.
This roundtable aims to present these new perspectives and challenges indicate the study of water governance in this new context.
September 26
Afternoon - 14:00 ~ 16:30