Open AccessA method for classifying interrelation between sectoral regulatory laws and the ‘water-energy-agriculture nexus concept’ in Brazil
Author(s) -
Cássia Juliana Fernandes Torres,
Camilla Hellen Peixoto de Lima,
Andrea Sousa Fontes,
Daniel Véras Ribeiro,
Ícaro Thiago Andrade Moreira,
Yvonilde Dantas Pinto Medeiros
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
water science and technology water supply
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1607-0798
pISSN - 1606-9749
DOI - 10.2166/ws.2021.036
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , restructuring , operationalization , context (archaeology) , agriculture , order (exchange) , strengths and weaknesses , water energy , economics , economic system , political science , computer science , law , natural resource economics , geography , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , finance , embedded system
We propose a method to classify the level of interrelation between the water, energy and agriculture sectoral regulatory laws and selected main characteristics of the nexus concept. This method was created to be applied with sectoral regulatory laws so a study case was conducted in Brazil. The results show that all analysed legislations have low to medium interrelation with the criteria intrinsic to the nexus concept; the policies that stood out the most, regarding the number of criteria present in their scopes, were the national irrigation policy and the desertification policy; and in order to operationalize the nexus concept in management models in the Brazilian context, adjustments and a restructuring of regulatory laws are necessary. The proposed method was able to investigate the interrelation between regulatory legislations with the characteristics of the nexus concept as well as their strengths and weaknesses.
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