Daniela HENRIQUEZ ENCAMILLA, doctorante de l'UMR G-Eau, soutiendra sa thèse de doctorat intitulée “Water Governance and the Allocation of Scarcity in Brazil : Revisiting Ceará’s Model Water Policy”
Le jeudi 18 décembre 2025 à 14h00
à
UMR G-Eau, Site HYDROPOLIS Lavalette, 361 Rue Jean François Breton, 34090 Montpellier
Salle Aquadémie (étage du bas) - Bâtiment Confluence
Lien streaming: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/94451183323#success
Abstract: The state of Ceará pioneered water reform with the 1992 Water Resources Law, introducing water-use rights, pricing, and participatory basin committees, with the river basin as the main management unit. State intervention long centred on building reservoirs, creating a dense, engineered hydrological system in a region of highly variable rainfall. Basin closure and hydrological interconnectedness heighten conflicts during droughts, as in 2012–2018. Viewing basins as socially constructed scales that shape water distribution and scarcity, this study examines water allocation in closed basins with high variability and competing users. It analyses the socio-historical formation of basins, the social arrangements that legitimise or contest water distribution, and interconnections across hydro-social scales. Using Political Ecology, hydro-social territories, and critical institutionalism, three nested scales—the Jaguaribe basin, Banabuiú sub-basin, and Patu watershed—are explored, revealing the entanglement of hydrological and institutional processes. This thesis also offers a critical reading of the spatial policies of water governance and explains the processes of bricolage by which global water management principles are revisited and appropriated.
Keywords : Water governance ; Allocation ; participation ; water rights ; Brazil ; Ceará
Jury :
Frances CLEAVER, Professeure émérite, Université de Lancaster, Rapportrice
Stéphane GHIOTTI, Directeur de recherche, CNRS, Rapporteur
David BLANCHON, Professeur, Université Paris Nanterre, Examinateur
Sandra AQUINO, Professeure, Université d’État du Ceará, Examinatrice
La thèse a été réalisée sous la direction de François MOLLE (IRD) et la supervision de Veronica MITROI (CIRAD), sous la tutelle de l'Ecole doctorale GAIA en Environnement, Territoires et Sociétés, à l’Institut Agro et l'Université de Montpellier. La soutenance sera en anglais. Elle sera suivie d'un apéritif convivial.
