Carlos José Saldanha Machado

Recursos hídricos e cidadania no Brasil: limites, alternativas e desafios

The article discusses the relationship between water resources management and the exercise of citizenship in Brazil. At first, it presents a descriptive framework on water distribution and problems concerned to population growth. On the second part, it describes water management features and innovations introduced by the Water Law (no 94.333/97). On the third part, it argues in favor of an integrated and collective public management of waterand a sociotechnical negotiation. Finally, it discusses some difficulties and limitations to implement and consolidate a decentralized, participative and sustainable water resources policy, as well as mechanisms to overcome or minimize such difficulties and limitations.

A regulação do uso de animais no Brasil do século XX e o processo de formação do atual regime aplicado à pesquisa biomédica

The article analyzes Brazilian public policy and legislation concerning the use of animals in teaching and biomedical research. It examines the institutional and judicial framework and legal status of animal protection in Brazil, including the legislative debate that preceded enactment of Law 11.794/2008, which defined procedures to be employed in the scientific use of animals. It underscores certain features of current regulatory practice and also explores considerations of a theoretical and methodological nature, with a view to broadening our understanding of the question.