When plans are designed without adequate representation and understanding of the environment to which is submitted, they face tough obstacles that consume resources when executed and compromise the product ownership by the beneficiaries. The difficulty of the Brazilian public sector to provide adequate transport infrastructure in time demonstrates the weakness of this system to understand how it influences and is influenced by the real world, lacking tools that will enable you to adapt and improve. Thus, this work present guidelines to encourage a systemic approach to federal transportation infrastructure. The concepts taken from the General Systems Theory and matched with the recommendations and national and foreign practices have enabled the drawing of guidelines for the creation of a Monitoring and Evaluation System (M&E) applicable to any area. The specificity of a M&E to the federal transport infrastructure sector was obtained through a Delphi survey with related experts, which gave their opinions about the current status and importance of the aspects that define the guidelines for the sector. Among the twelve aspects presented in these guidelines, highlights the operational leadership, which currently has the most precarious in the sector and equivalent importance to the other. This is somewhat bounded by national and international practices and experiences, but has a fundamental participation to ensure the success of these systems in the country.

Extreme water incidents point out a value conflict surrounding the resource. While drought and floods echo the inadequate land and resource uses, the increase in social inequalities exposes the practical, physiological, and social consequences. The multiple value action throughout the water cycle also narrowed disputes to those that neglect its vital importance, and the constraints imposed to the services, such as low tariffs, and lack of local engagement, make sustainable water systems more difficult. This article develops a systematic literature review to understand the academic motivations surrounding water value and gaps in its systematic approach. A sample with 84 papers is created by an interactive keyword selection and its general characteristics are presented. A dynamic reading technique extracts data and classifies the papers according to 14 research motivations, where the water multifunctionality and the user value stand out. The bibliographic coupling analysis identifies a cluster of 16 papers related to integration and connected to planning, decision, and management. There is a lack of contribution with a systemic approach to water resources by way of integrating actors and values, such as including local contexts.

Esta nota de pesquisa apresenta reflexões iniciais no contexto da formulação da Política Nacional de Desenvolvimento Urbano (PNDU). O Ipea firmou um acordo de cooperação com a Secretaria Nacional de Desenvolvimento Regional e Urbano (SDRU), do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Regional (MDR), para subsidiar a elaboração do respectivo plano. O desenvolvimento urbano está sendo enfrentado pelo governo federal com um duplo enfoque da construção social e interfaces com sua dimensão operacional, explorando uma noção ativa, para a qual convergem reflexões e agendas diversas, que variam nos contextos socioespaciais e temporais.