Rural society and water governance in France: dialogues with the Brazilian experience

• Grant number: 19/04783-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: November 01, 2019
• End date: April 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Rural Sociology
• Principal Investigator: Rodrigo Constante Martins
• Grantee: Rodrigo Constante Martins
• Host Investigator: Jean-Paul Billaud
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS), France

Abstract

This project aims to discuss the social genesis of belief in the effectiveness of economic discourse in decentralized instances of environmental governance in rural areas. The project proposes the problematization of the hypothesis that the consolidation of the environmental question in the contemporary political-social agenda is related to the nomination potential that the marginal utility theory has developed during the twentieth century. Therefore, it will undertake bibliographical and documentary research about the economic naming acts of the environmental issue in rural contexts based on the experience of decentralized and participatory water management in the rural territories of France - internationally recognized experience and, in Brazil, adopted as reference in the debate about economic valuation of water resources. (AU)