The Use of Tourism in Brazilian Public Policies Giving the Implantation of Hydroelectric Plants

Lívia Cristina Barros da Silva Wiesinieski¹, Alessandra Santos dos Santos², Iara Lúcia Gomes Brasileiro¹, 
Fabrício S. Barbosa³ 
(1. Universidade de Brasília, Brazil; 2. Centro Universitário de Brasília, Brazil;
3. do Instituto Federal Farroupilha – Campus São Borja, Brazil)

Abstract: Tourism has an interdisciplinary role in the regions that have water potential, whose objective is: to integrate different realities of the local community with economic factors that present favorable results, without undergoing drastic changes in habits or geography. The main tool of the process is the Environmental Conservation Plan of the Artificial Reservoir Environment — PACUERA, a legal instrument, built from the mobilization of communities and the dialogue between public and private actors responsible for the regulation of dams. This paper presents an understanding of the dimensions of sustainability, based on public policies that make it possible to use tourism as a development factor on affected regions. This research was based on the use of documentary research based on legal instruments, generating a synthesis table with the categories of analysis “planning”, “tourism”, “water/water resources” and “multiple use”. From the construction of the theoretical framework and the data analysis it is possible to define that the public policies depend directly on the rationality of the social actors and should be limited. Since making the decision to implement tourism, alternatives must be established in an orderly way increasing the capacity of preference order in the execution, thus, allowing a new understanding of politics from the actors involved and the reflexes of their behavior.

Key words: sustainable tourism; public policy; hydroelectric plants

JEL codes: Q4, Z3