The WeTest model of citizens’ integration to water management: designing a pilot of collaborative water monitoring

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Durieux, Gaspard Arthur Marie
• Orientador(a): Curado, Isabela Baleeiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Português: Sustentabilidade; Gestão da água; Emprendedorismo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Sustainability; Water management; Entrepreneurship
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/17726

Water crisis is global and drives huge environmental, social and economic challenges. Human impact on water resources is established. Adaptive policies are attempts to renew water management practices in order to preserve the ecosystem’s contribution to water quantity and quality and more generally to climate resilience. Adaptive policies main challenges are to limit negative externalities that affect the common resources and to develop sustainable practices and behaviors supporting ecosystem’s contributions. The established mind set of Presumption of Innocence - not to act before significate scientific proof – combined with the transnational scale of decision making challenge adaptive policies implementation. Even though the necessity of adapting is recognized, scientific controversies on Climate Change’s impact on water resources deter policy makers to engage in long term investments. The developing of adaptive water management policies requires a change of mindset toward the Precautionary principle. Collaborative science succeeded in opening scientific controversies to a broader public and resulted in building collective support for political action. This research analyzes how Brazilians deal with water issues to suggest how a collaborative water monitoring model could be implemented.