La gestión integrada de recursos hídricos en la regulación de aguas. Identificación y propuesta de avances, a partir de instrumentos vigentes

Abstract

Motivates this work the conviction that the management of water resources cannot be attended and solved exclusively by legal means that provide only a legislation of the waters, specially the Code, this manifests above all when trying to implement an integrated water resources management (IWRM). So, it will be a matter of this work the identifi cation of the central aspects of the IWRM and its recognition; the general caracterization of the unitarian regime of the waters in Chile with the analysis of some particularities in specifi c zones; and the proposal of some legal bases starting from the actual regulation to do an IWRM based on three types of relevant legal instruments: regional regulations, strategic environmental assessment and environmental quality standards.