Grounded perspectives on water infrastructures and drought imaginaries in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil

Mitroi Veronica, Henriquez Encamilla Daniela, Rabelo Laudemira Silva, Tritsch Isabelle, das Chagas Vasconcelos Júnior Francisco, Kuper Marcel, Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins Eduardo. 2025. Grounded perspectives on water infrastructures and drought imaginaries in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil. Journal of Hydrology, 662:133894, 12 p.

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Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Géographie-Aménagement-Urbanisme-Architecture

Résumé : This paper discusses how water infrastructure became central to drought management in the state of Ceará in Brazil's Northeast region, and how this status has been maintained over the decades. It emphasizes the importance of social imaginaries and institutional arrangements in defining water ontologies and developing subjectivities that play in the moralization of water use and rights in crisis contexts. Our empirically grounded, interdisciplinary approach demonstrates how the co-evolution of infrastructure and institutional arrangements contributes to the maintainance of the infrastructure's centrality in drought management, primarily to increase water availability. Consequently, despite the establishment of participatory bodies and an alternative approach to manage droughts in rural communities, large-scale water infrastructure remains a key pillar in preparing for future droughts. While these infrastructures provide the state with some 'control capacities' over the water resources, they also have considerable uncontrolled and intertwined territorial effects. We argue that further interdisciplinary research is required to understand the complex role of infrastructures and imaginaries in water management.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : gestion des eaux, approche participative, ressource en eau, sécheresse, communauté rurale, changement climatique, recherche interdisciplinaire, politique de développement, politique de l'eau, sociologie, utilisation de l'eau, hydrologie, rareté de l'eau, institution sociale

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Brésil

Mots-clés libres : Paradigms of drought management, Water infrastructures, Socio-hydrological imaginaries, Water ontologies, Northeast Brazil

Agences de financement hors UE : Agence Française de Développement

Projets sur financement : (BRA) Durabilité et résilience de l'eau et du territoire dans le Nordeste

Auteurs et affiliations

• Mitroi Veronica, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (FRA) - auteur correspondant
• Henriquez Encamilla Daniela, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (BRA)
• Rabelo Laudemira Silva, FUNCEME (BRA)
• Tritsch Isabelle, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (BRA) ORCID: 0000-0001-6421-1833
• das Chagas Vasconcelos Júnior Francisco, FUNCEME (BRA)
• Kuper Marcel, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-1240-0592
• Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins Eduardo, FUNCEME (BRA)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/614025/)

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