The hidrosocial cycle as an analysis tool: the Triple Frontier (Mato Grosso do Sul - Paraná - São Paulo)
The relationship between water and regional planning in Brazil has narrowed since the 1940s, under the state's role in regional development plans. In this context, the area of state border that includes Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná and São Paulo, conformed by the Paraná and Paranapanema rivers, began to be included in regional development plans beginning in the 1950s, resulting, in the decades below, the implementation of two hydroelectric plants in the region: UHE Porto Primavera and UHE Rosana. Under the perspective of Political Ecology, the objective of this work is to analyze the reconfigurations of territorial dynamics in the triple border, from the construction of the UHE Porto Primavera (1979-1998), establishing water as the central and structural element of the analysis, starting from the concept of the hydrossocial cycle. The hydrossocial cycle as an alternative to the concept of the hydrological cycle, assumes that the human being intervenes in the water cycle, in a co-production relationship with other agents - human and non-human - in the cycle, in a continuous process of metabolization of Water. Thus, an analysis system with the objective of capturing the hydrossocial cycle in time / space in the case studies is proposed. Its application in the case of the Triple Border (MS-PR-SP) demonstrates that establishing water as the central and conducting element of the analysis has made it possible to synthesize a narrative of the main processes of reconfiguration of the dynamics that are closely related, imbricated, associated in production water and space.