Water as a transnational element: a reflection on governance and global environmental management

Abstract

Considering water as an essential good for life on earth, reflecting on management and governance will be timely relevant. Governance for equitable water allocation is closely linked to a decentralized regime without strengthening competence at the subnational level. Having made such observations, the present study through the inductive method and the literature review through the thought of classical and contemporary authors, by the succinct writing format, does not wish to propose or hope to present solutions for water management, but rather to offer some contribution for a transnational look, as a possibility of a civilizing governance of an indispensable resource to life in all its senses, water. Considering that the causal elements of inequalities are territorial, there is a lack of coordination that seeks solutions to water, sometimes too much, sometimes in scarcity, sometimes polluted. From a demographic perspective, they reflect the intrinsic characteristics of local dynamics, diversity in access, including basic sanitation and the concentration of the deficit in certain population groups, whose priority is to make management decisions at mutually compatible and effective administrative levels. Thus, with the goal of identifying long-term trends, important factors and actors for defining issues on a global scale seek to understand variables that may influence the international scenario of sustainability and transnational water governance.