GOOD AND BAD FORMS OF PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT: SOME LESSONS FROM BRAZIL

Implementation of hydraulic infrastructure usually stirs controversy and raises several questions. Some are of economic nature. For example, would the beneficiaries pay the entire cost? Others are related to less tangible issues. For example, who are the stakeholders and in which degree their interests should be taken into account? Would it be only those to be resettled? Or perhaps, in case of hydropower, all those that would benefit from the electricity transported by high voltage transmission lines, even if they live thousands of miles from the infrastructure? These questions are answered through the description and discussion of four case studies.