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INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT IN RIO DE JANEIRO METROPOLITAN AREA: DISCUSSING THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

IWRA World Water Congress 2011 Pernambuco Brazil
1. Adaptive water management
Author(s): Paulo Roberto Ferreira Carneiro
Ana Lucia Nogueira De Paiva Britto
Paula Sousa de Oliveira Barbosa
Yasmim Ribeiro Mello

Paulo Roberto Ferreira Carneiro,Ana Lucia Nogueira De Paiva Britto,Paula Sousa de Oliveira Barbosa,Yasmim Ribeiro Mello, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, PROURB, anabrittoster@gmail.com



Keyword(s): Integrated Urban Water Management,local government,local government,Rio de Janeiro
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Abstract

Abstract

Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) requires a multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral approach, involving of stormwater, water supply, sanitation, collection and disposal of solid waste and land use planning. In Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan area IUWM is still a big challenge. Integration between local urban development planning and the management of the collective impact of all urban-related water processes is minimal. The implementation of an Integrated Urban Water Management depends on overcoming institutional fragmentation and the tendency towards a sectorization of policies and actions implemented by local governments. It requires an improvement in metropolitan municipalities institutional skills, considering that those municipalities have very different socio-spatial dynamics and also very different institutional capacity. This paper intends to examine the capacity of Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area municipalities to build an integrated and sustainable water management, based on the analysis of their institutional capacity and their regulatory instruments concerning land use planning.

Palavras Chave: recursos hídricos, meio ambiente, gestão municipal

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