Impacts of the Fundão Dam failure: a pathway to sustainable and resilient mitigation

Mainstreaming climate change in the Rio Doce watershed restoration

“…Renova's partners at the state and local levels. Such an approach warrants a transition strategy to support institutional learning (Rotmans & Loorbach, 2009…”

Source-to-sea and landscape approaches: integrating water quality and biodiversity conservation towards the restoration of the Rio Doce watershed

“…The Piranga and do Carmo Rivers meet to form the Rio Doce Photo: NITRO (2018) and were designed in a compartmentalised manner, leaving gaps and overlaps, and without paying proper consideration to the participation of the affected population during its initial implementation stages (Sánchez et al, 2018). 8 The situation adds to the current scenario of complex governance and continuous delays in implementation.…”

From restoration to responsive governance: Rio Doce after the Fundão failure

“…The Rio Doce watershed and its adjacent coastal and marine areas have been affected by centuries of extractive activities and unsustainable agricultural practices (May et al, 2019). When the Fundão tailings dam collapsed on 5 November 2015, a wave of mud swept down the river to the sea, causing 19 deaths, destroying villages, riparian vegetation, scraping off river sediments and disrupting the lives of thousands of people (Sánchez et al, 2018). The response to a disaster of this magnitude is an extraordinary challenge for which the public authorities and existing structures of governance were not prepared (Lavalle et al, 2019 The central institutions of the TTAC are the Inter-Federative Committee (Comitê Interfederativo, 2 or CIF) and the Renova Foundation, a private entity fully funded by Samarco and its parent companies, which was established to implement the 42 programmes.…”

“…The Rio Doce watershed and its adjacent coastal and marine areas have been affected by centuries of extractive activities and unsustainable agricultural practices (May et al, 2019) (Sánchez et al, 2018). The response to a disaster of this magnitude, with widespread environmental, social and economic consequences, is an extraordinarily challenging undertaking for which the public authorities and existing structures of governance were not prepared (Lavalle et al, 2019).…”