THE WATERSHED AS A CONFLICT AND COOPERATION SCENARIO

Abstract

This work analyzes the watershed as a confl ict and cooperation local, showing how the confl ict due current or future water scarcity is constantly the result of the (lack of) interaction among the actors. It explores, yet, the water use “dispute” due the water-energy-food nexus logic and argues, starting from a Game Theory analysis, that this dispute is the consequence of the lack of dialogue and diff erent expectations among those actors. In the end, shows how those gaps may be, and already are, overcome by institutionalized state action and/or political will from the actors that have agency capacity.