Download or read book Hydraulic Infrastructure Development Irrigation Governance and Climate Change Adaptation in the Engineered Colca Siguas Watershed Peru written by Ramzi Michel Tubbeh Sierralta and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-led construction of large hydraulic infrastructures dramatically increased in the 20th century at a global level. This phenomenon continues to expand central state presence in otherwise remote rural areas and accelerates the transformation of riparian ecosystems, water flows, and social relationships. Drawing from political ecology, more-than-human ontologies originating in Science and Technology Studies (STS), and social-ecological systems scholarship, this dissertation uses a case study of the Majes-Siguas Special Project (PEMS) in southwestern Peru to analyze the recursive ways in which state-water-society relations are forged through hydraulic infrastructure development and accompanying water policies. PEMS is one of several hydraulic projects originating in an early 20th-century national modernization strategy which aimed to expand agriculture through coastal irrigation, create a rural middle class, and increase state control of land and water. As the project conveys water from a high-altitude dam to the lowland plains near the coast, it creates new relationships between water officials, the main project beneficiaries in the lowlands, and highland smallholding farmers. Water struggles amid changing political-economic and environmental conditions are at the core of these emerging relationships. This dissertation is organized around four core questions: (1) how has Peruvian water governance changed since the early 20th century? (2) how are different state-farmer relations forged through different histories and processes of PEMS water allocation? (3) how does the distribution of hydraulic infrastructure construction, operation, and maintenance labor between farmers and technical staff influence local social relations? and (4) what are the merits and shortcomings of the Peruvian water license system as an institution for adaptive water governance in a context of environmental change? To address these questions, I conducted fieldwork between September 2018 and November 2019 in key irrigation sites serviced by PEMS. Methods include archival research, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, farmer surveys, land cover classification using remote sensing, and crop-water demand estimations. This research contributes to geographic scholarship on (1) the production of interrelated human-environment landscapes through biogeophysical and social processes; (2) collective labor and social organization in relationship to irrigation; and (3) state construction and state power. I highlight four main findings. First, the historical development of PEMS is rooted in a persistent spatial model of agricultural development that depicts the highlands as water sources and the arid lowlands as water-deserving sites of agricultural production. Second, differences in the ways that highland and lowland farmers obtained PEMS water are rooted in the spatial model of agricultural development and produce disparate state-farmer relations. Third, an entanglement of technical, biogeophysical, and policy factors shape hydraulic infrastructure construction, maintenance, and operation labor task distributions in site-specific ways, shaping local farmer-farmer relations as well. Fourth, the Peruvian water license system conceals and depoliticizes uneven water allocation processes, and lacks mechanisms for facilitating climate change adaptation amid glacial retreat and rising evapotranspiration rates. Together, these findings support the use of political-ecological, social-ecological, and historical-geographical analyses of water governance at different scales.
Download or read book Integrating adaptation and mitigation in climate change and land use policies in Peru written by Emilia Pramova and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interactions between climate change adaptation and mitigation are particularly evident in agriculture, forestry and other land-use-based activities. Adaptation projects can affect ecosystems and their ability to sequester and store carbon, while mitigation projects can enhance adaptive capacity or increase the vulnerability of people. These interactions must be considered when designing policies and strategies. The discussion on policy integration of climate change adaptation and mitigation should focus on two issues: (1) integrating adaptation and mitigation in climate change policies to consider multiple goals, assess trade-offs and seek mutually supportive outcomes; and (2) integrating adaptation and mitigation jointly into sectoral policies, such as agriculture or forestry, in order to balance trade-offs and maximize co-benefits between climate change and other objectives. National strategies and plans related to climate change in Peru as well as key land-use policies encompass both adaptation and mitigation objectives. Frameworks have been developed for the integrated implementation of adaptation and mitigation in the new National Climate Change Strategy and draft National Forests and Climate Change Strategy. Although most of the other strategies and action plans do not mention the joint implementation of adaptation and mitigation, they do emphasis delivery of ecosystem services. And enhancing ecosystem services can ultimately benefit both adaptation and mitigation and other national priorities. What is needed is a strong focus on information and knowledge generation and management and an assessment of the current and potential impacts of national and subnational policies on ecosystem services at different scales. Establishing mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating policy implementation, stakeholder engagement and adaptive management are also crucial.
Download or read book Water and Power in Highland Peru written by Paul H. Gelles and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cabanaconde, a town of 5,000 people, is located in the arid Andean highlands. It is dominated by the foreboding Hualca Hualca mountain peak that is the source of this town's much-needed water. How the villagers obtain this water, Paul Gelles writes, is not a simple process: the politics of irrigation in this area reflect a struggle for control of vital resources, deeply rooted in the clash between local, ritualized models of water distribution and the secular model put forth by the Peruvian state. Water and Power in Highland Peru provides an insightful case study on the intense conflicts over water rights, and a framework for studying ethnic conflict and the effects of "development," not only in Peru, but in other areas as well. Most of the inhabitants of Cabanaconde do not identify themselves with the dominant Spanish-speaking culture found in Peru. And the Peruvian state, grounded in a racist, post-Colonial ethos, challenges the village's long-standing, non-Western framework for organizing water management. Gelles demonstrates that Andean culture is dynamic and adaptive, and it is a powerful source of ethnic identity, even for those who leave the village to live elsewhere. Indigenous rituals developed in this part of the world, he states, have become powerful tools of resistance against interference by local elites and the present-day Peruvian state. Most importantly, the micropolitics of Cabanaconde provide a window into a struggle that is taking place around the world.
Download or read book Climate Change and Water Governance written by Margot Hill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents detailed case studies examining the Rhône Basin in the Canton Valais, Switzerland and the Aconcagua Basin in Valparaiso, Chile. In order to understand and assess the interplay of complex and interlinked environmental and socio-economic issues, the author looks beyond the technology, modelling, engineering and infrastructure associated with water resources management and climate change adaptation, to assess the decision-making environment within which water and adaptation policy and practices are devised and executed.
Download or read book Peru written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Hydrology written by Walter Vergara and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Climate change is beginning to have effects on climate, weather and resource availability in ways that need to be anticipated when planning for the future. In particular, changes in rainfall patterns and temperature may impact the intensity or schedule of water availability. Also the retreat of tropical glaciers, the drying of unique Andean wetland ecosystems, as well as increased weather variability and weather extremes will affect water regulation. These changes have the potential to impact the energy and other sectors, such as agriculture, and could have broader economic effects.Anticipating the impacts of climate change is a new frontier. There are few examples of predictions of the impact of climate change on resource availability and even fewer examples of the applications of such predictions to planning for sustainable economic development. However, having access to an effective methodology would allow planners and policy makers to better plan for adaptation measures to address the consequences of climate change on the power and water sectors.This report presents a summary of the efforts to develop methodological tools for the assessment of climate impacts on surface hydrology in the Peruvian Andes. It is targeted to decision makers in Peru and in other countries to give them guidance on how to choose available and suitable tools and make an assessment of climate impacts on water regulation."
Download or read book A stress test for climate change impacts on water security written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Covering Ground written by David Guillet and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the community allocation of a scarce resource
Download or read book Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Climate Change and Land use Policies in Peru written by Emilia Pramova and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources written by Ramakar Jha and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides insights and a capacity to understand the climate change phenomenon, its impact on water resources, and possible remedial measures. The impact of climate change on water resources is a global issue and cause for concern. Water resources in many countries are extremely stressed, and climate change along with burgeoning populations, the rise in living standards, and increasing demand on resources are factors which serve to exacerbate this stress. The chapters provide information on tools that will be useful to mitigate the adverse consequences of natural disasters. Fundamental to addressing these issues is hydrological modelling which is discussed in this book and ways to combat climate change as an important aspect of water resource management.
Download or read book The Impacts of Payments for Watershed Services in Ecuador written by Marta Echavarria and published by IIED. This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irrigation and Public Policy in Per written by Charles W. Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America written by Asit K. Biswas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly. Promoted extensively by donors and international institutions over the past 15 years, integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been assumed explicitly to be "the" solution for managing the limited water resources of the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in promoting IWRM in developing countries. However, no serious and objective analysis has ever been undertaken as to whether IWRM has made water management more efficient and equitable in any region of the world than otherwise may have been the case. This pioneering analysis indicates that IWRM has not only been unsuccessful in Latin America, but also is highly unlikely to succeed in the future. The reasons and constraints for this failure are outlined. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Download or read book Irrigation in Southern Peru written by Roland Clifford Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the mountains to the plains written by Bharati, Luna and published by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis CRIDA written by Mendoza, Guillermo and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asset Management for Hydraulic Infrastructure written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
