Reflexões e desafios à gestão participativa das águas no Pará: a experiência do CERH no período de 2007 a 2013

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the performance of the Board of the State of Pará Water Resources (CERH/PA), under the democratic management, from the form of participation exercised by the Council. In this study, far will be a brief historical overview of the debate of various issues such as democracy, social control, participation, management councils of public policy, environmental management and water necessary for the understanding of the process of creation and functioning of management councils public policy and, specifically, the CERH. Thus, this study will serve, to examine how participation exercised by the Council to meet its basic objective, namely to ensure the current and future generations the availability of water resources, tailored to your needs and qualitative and quantitative standards appropriate to their uses. For the study of this board, which is as a collective discussion and decision on water management adopted the dialectical method to understand this contradictory space that can position yourself as dispute arena hegemonic projects or as mere collaboration space government management. Order to be effective, the bibliographical and documentary research has been adopted, in addition to questionnaires and interviews for data collection and subsequent analysis. The survey results showed a council's operations ranging from the attempted execution of participatory management, and a passivity that keeps the existing order, against a backdrop of low participation.