tatiana ribeiro velloso - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Extensão ...
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ABSTRACT<br />
VELLOSO, Tatiana Ribeiro, M.S., Universida<strong>de</strong> Fe<strong>de</strong>ral <strong>de</strong> Viçosa, June 2000.<br />
The manag<strong>em</strong>ent of water resources within a regional context: the<br />
trajectory of the national Department of Action against Drought<br />
(DNOCS). Adviser: Fábio Faria Men<strong>de</strong>s. Committee M<strong>em</strong>bers: José<br />
Ambrósio Ferreira Neto and José Norberto Muniz.<br />
The role the fe<strong>de</strong>ral government has played against the climatic<br />
adversities in the northeastern s<strong>em</strong>i arid region has been historically symbolized<br />
by the creation of DNOCS - National Department of Action against Drought.<br />
This public institution has played the role of a privileged interlocutor favoring the<br />
needs of the northeastern regional elites, thus performing the role of a pioneer<br />
agency in the formation and mediation of government policies in the fight<br />
against drought in this area. Since its creation, this agency activities have<br />
focused on the physical and infrastructural dimensions, disregarding the social<br />
and institutional conditions un<strong>de</strong>r which the existing water provision syst<strong>em</strong>s<br />
operate represented by the “action against drought”. The core question of this<br />
work, which focus on the interpretation of the DNOCS trajectory, is to<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rstand how an agency planned to act as a technical tool of economic<br />
<strong>de</strong>velopment was, if we may say so, “colonized” by the local regional elites,<br />
becoming a <strong>de</strong>cisive tool in the local distributive game. DNOCS trajectory<br />
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