GobHidro
Hydrosocial territories and polycentric governance:
contributions for improving water quality in Santa Lucia river basin

AIM

Investigate water management and governance in the Santa Lucía River Basin (Uruguay), with a focus on the development and implementation of two main management instruments: the Basin Plan for integrated water resources management (as established in the National Water Plan) and the Action Plan for the protection of the environmental quality of the basin (and its second generation in 2019).

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

  • Analyze the hydrosocial territories of the Santa Lucía river basin (understanding these as spatial configurations of people, institutions, water flows, hydraulic technology and environment related to water control).

  • Identify and analyze the multi-level coalitions of actors that have been involved and have influenced the development and implementation of the Basin Plan and the Action Plan for this basin.

  • Evaluate the governance of the basin to identify strategies that strengthen the transition towards adaptive and polycentric governance.

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED

  • SARAS – South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies

  • Faculty of Sciences, University of the Republic (UDELAR), Uruguay

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, UDELAR, Uruguay

  • School of Public Administration – Florida Atlantic University, United States

  • Energy and Environment Institute, University of Sao Paulo, IEE/USP, Brazil

GOBHIDRO DOCUMENTARY CLIP

Documental que presenta algunos de los resultados del Proyecto GobHidro – “Territorios hidrosociales y gobernanza policéntrica: aportes hacia una mejora en la calidad del agua en la Cuenca del Río Santa Lucía – Uruguay”. 
Desarrollado entre julio de 2020 y diciembre de 2022, con la financiación del Fondo María Viñas de la Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (FMV-ANII).

FINANCE

María Viñas Fund – National Agency for Research and Innovation (FMV-ANII)
Postdoctoral Scholarship – Graduate Academic Commission (CAP), UDELAR

SARAS’ ROLE

Host institution.

PERIOD OF EXECUTION

Start: July 2020
End: June 2022

CONTACT
DOCUMENTS

Sta. Lucía FMV Project Summary (Spanish only

SARAS advances in the implementation of the GobHidro Project in the Santa Lucía river basin (Uruguay)

Virtual session within the framework of the SSUNGA77 Scientific Summit
“Socio-environmental conflicts linked to water in South America” ​​​​