Review of Quadros Rückert, F., Dos Santos, F. A. and Banzato, G. (coords.) (2021). Waters and public policies in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

Abstract

The relationship and experience of humans with water is universal: all societies at all times have needed water to be born, develop and endure over time. However, this relationship and this universal experience do not always appear in the same forms, but are the product of different regional configurations that find their roots in climate, topography and geography, as well as in politics, economy and culture. culture of societies. This is how the compilers of Waters and public policies in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico present the historical relationship that human groups establish with water: a complex and dynamic interaction between nature-society that goes beyond both the natural cycles and the social processes abstracted from their natural environment.