Geopolítica das águas : o Brasil e o direito internacional fluvial

Abstract

Water has been being called in the last times of the blue gold . However, a big part of the water resources of the planet are shared by two or more sovereign State. This brings afloat the need from thinking in a joint administration, in a species of international solidarity. This reciprocal action, then, implies in a new vision of the state sovereignty concept over their natural resources. This study is about the form witch the States organizes, or they would organize, to resolve the enormous conflicts that arise in the management of one very irreplaceable good, even when it has to equilibrate the natural abundance of any State and the water stress of another. This way, this work has as general goal to propose new forms to treat the transboundary water resources in Brazil, specifically, and in the world in general. To reach this objective, it analyzes the evolution of the environmental protection in the planet, it studies the transboundary water resources protection in the international plan, it evaluates the juridical posture and Brazil's Policy front to these resources and, at the end, it proposes a new form to work with the transboundary superficial fresh water resources, besides it suggest the creation of a World Organization of Water as international forum to agglutinate common interests of the countries with fresh water big reserves.