Download or read book La nueva cultura del agua en Espa a written by M. Ramón Llamas Madurga and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Nueva Cultura del Agua en Espa a written by Francisco Martínez Gil and published by Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua/Bakeaz. This book was released on 1997 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuatro décadas de productivismo desbocado nos han llevado por caminos insostenibles de degradación generalizada, que nos han hecho olvidar el auténtico valor del agua, la verdadera dimensión de tan excepcional recurso. Un conjunto de razones obligan a dar un giro a las políticas del agua en nuestro país. Es tiempo de instaurar una nueva cultura del agua que dé paso a la eficiencia y a la imaginación, a la subsidiariedad y a la participación en la gestión, a las verdaderas cuentas económicas, sociales y medioambientales del agua, y a la concepción humanística del recurso. Los usuarios de los ríos somos todos. La nueva cultura tiene que acabar con la tergiversación de los conceptos actuales de “demanda” y “recurso”, con los que se ha pretendido establecer un panorama irreal de desequilibrios insostenibles para justificar la instauración de un gran estado de obras restaurador de un equilibrio hidráulico que la Naturaleza jamás antes tuvo. Son las apetencias las que hay que reequilibrar. Estamos obligados a instaurar la cultura del respeto y de la sensibilidad, antes de seguir destruyendo más paraísos, más patrimonios, y desarticulando más comarcas históricas… sin necesidad. Estamos en tiempos de economía obligada, tiempos de conservar y no de destruir. ¡Un reto apasionante!
Download or read book El reto tico de la nueva cultura del agua written by Pedro Arrojo and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El presente libro desarrolla los nuevos enfoques éticos que se proponen desde el movimiento ciudadano por una Nueva Cultura del Agua, que fue capaz de movilizar a más de un millón de ciudadanos en España contra el Plan Hidrológico Nacional del anterior gobierno y que recientemente ha convergido con los activos movimientos latinoamericanos y prestigiosos sectores de la comunidad científica en el Primer Encuentro por la Nueva Cultura del Agua en América Latina. Durante los últimos quince años han crecido en todo el mundo activos movimientos sociales en torno a los muchos problemas que se vienen suscitando en materia de gestión de aguas. Hoy más de mil cien millones de personas no tienen garantizado el acceso a aguas potables, lo que motiva más de diez mil muertes al día, en su mayoría niños. Por otro lado, el modelo de desarrollo y de gestión de aguas vigente nos ha llevado a quebrar la salud y la sostenibilidad de ríos, lagos, humedales y acuíferos, abriendo perspectivas sombrías para las generaciones futuras. Las estrategias «de oferta» vigentes a lo largo del siglo XX, basadas en la construcción de grandes infraestructuras hidráulicas con una masiva subvención pública, han supuesto no sólo impactos ecológicos, en muchos casos irreversibles, sino también graves impactos sociales en la medida en que han motivado la expulsión de sus hogares de entre cuarenta y ochenta millones de personas por inundación de sus pueblos. Por otro lado, durante este tiempo el modelo neoliberal de globalización vigente viene generando fuertes presiones desde el Banco Mundial y la Organización Mundial del Comercio en pro de la mercantilización del agua como recurso y la privatización de los servicios de agua y saneamiento. Todo ello suscita hoy fuertes movimientos sociales, tanto contra el desarrollo de grandes presas y trasvases como contra estos procesos privatizadores, al tiempo que asistimos al desarrollo de nuevos enfoques de racionalidad hidrológica en coherencia con el paradigma de sostenibilidad. Estos movimientos, junto a un amplio y prestigioso sector de la comunidad científica vienen convergiendo, tanto en Europa como en América Latina, en torno al lema y la reivindicación de una Nueva Cultura del Agua que demanda, más allá de profundos cambios políticos, legales e institucionales, un nuevo enfoque cultural basado en principios éticos de equidad y sostenibilidad.
Download or read book Water Policy in Spain written by Alberto Garrido and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the modern Spanish State was formed in the mid Fifteenth Century, historical records show that water works, statues, and the utilization of water dates back to centuries BC. As a semi-arid country, the effort to control, store and assure water supplies to cities and fields is present in numerous historical and political landmarks.Water polic
Download or read book Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain can we square the circle written by Lucia De Stefano and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity." This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country, Spain, where climatic conditions – Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical water scarcity. The metrification of water uses and their monetary value is a first important step in understanding how reallocation of water among users could help mitigating many of current water problems in Spain. However, water reallocation among users or from users to nature is far from simple. Initiatives portrayed as the solution to the water governance ‘jigsaw’ – e.g. water trade, improved water use efficiency, users collective action, public participation – are not free of difficulties and shortcomings. The book explores the growing need for maintaining Spain’s natural capital and the human component of water governance – people’s needs, wishes, (vested) interests, aspirations – that often determine the result of decisions and, sometimes, lead water management to a deadlock. This book takes a step forward in showing a more complex - and also closer to reality - picture of water governance in Spain.
Download or read book European Declaration for a New Water Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South written by Leila M. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have gained currency in policy and governance circles, both globally and regionally—scarcity and crisis, marketization and privatization, and participation. It provides a historical and contextual overview of each of these ideas as they have emerged in global and regional policy and governance circles and pairs these with in-depth case studies that examine manifestations and contestations of water governance internationally. The book interrogates ideas of water crisis and scarcity in the context of bio-physical, political, social and environmental landscapes to better understand how ideas and practices linked to scarcity and crisis take hold, and become entrenched in policy and practice. The book also investigates ideas of marketization and privatization, increasingly prominent features of water governance throughout the global South, with particular attention to the varied implementation and effects of these governance practices. The final section of the volume analyzes participatory water governance, querying the disconnects between global discourses and local realities, particularly as they intersect with the other themes of interest to the volume. Promoting a view of changing water governance that links across these themes and in relation to contemporary realities, the book is invaluable for students, researchers, advocates, and policy makers interested in water governance challenges facing the developing world.
Download or read book Ideas y propuestas para una nueva pol tica del agua en Espa a written by Antonio Estevan and published by Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua. This book was released on 2004 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contribuye a plasmar las ideas de la nueva cultura del agua en un conjunto de propuestas y medidas concretas orientadas a facilitar su aplicación. Este esfuerzo programático parte de la convicción de que la vieja política de promoción de obras hidráulicas se apoya en interpretaciones de la realidad que, a base de repetirse, han llegado a generar una mitología difícil de desmontar, aunque carezca cada vez más de fundamento real. Como se indica en el capítulo I, la ruptura con esta obsoleta mitología hidráulica es condición sine qua non para que se puedan materializar los cambios que la gestión del agua requiere en nuestro país. El capítulo II sintetiza el programa de gobierno que, a juicio de los autores, debería presidir el cambio desde la vieja hacia la nueva política del agua. En el capítulo III se apunta el obligado replanteamiento de la planificación hidráulica imperante en España, cuyos máximos exponentes son las figuras de los Planes Hidrológicos de Cuenca y del Plan Hidrológico Nacional. Por último, en el capítulo IV se ilustra el conflicto general que se plantea entre la nueva y la vieja política del agua con dos ejemplos muy significativos, que además son de palpitante actualidad: el trasvase Tajo-La Mancha y el trasvase Júcar-Vinalopó, en cuyas respectivas Comisiones Técnicas de estudio participan José Manuel Naredo y Antonio Estevan en representación de la Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua, de la que ambos son socios fundadores.
Download or read book Una cita europea con la nueva cultura del agua La Directiva marco perspectivas en Portugal y Espa a written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La gesti n del agua en Espa a y California written by Pedro Arrojo Agudo and published by Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California presenta respecto a España notables paralelismos y similitudes, tanto en parámetros geoclimáticos como incluso en muchos aspectos de su historia hidráulica o en lo referente a niveles de regulación y disponibilidad de caudales. Sin embargo, el profundo giro operado desde finales de los setenta en la política hidráulica norteamericana ha generado un nuevo modelo de planificación y gestión del agua que contrasta fuertemente con las concepciones e inercias desgraciadamente vigentes todavía en nuestro país. En California prevalece el valor ambiental y ecológico del agua. De una estrategia de grandes obras para sustanciar una política de oferta, se ha pasado a una estrategia de conservación del recurso y de gestión de la demanda. En nuestro país la necesidad de un giro histórico similar que permita superar el obsoleto estructuralismo hidráulico, vigente hasta hoy, es ya inaplazable. En este sentido, la experiencia californiana puede ser de gran utilidad. En el presente libro, Pedro Arrojo, profesor hemérito del Departamento de Análisis Económico de la Universidad de Zaragoza, aprovechando los conocimientos adquiridos fundamentalmente durante su estancia en la Universidad de California-Davis como profesor invitado (curso 94-95), analiza la experiencia californiana en contraste con la realidad y las concepciones vigentes en España. Por otro lado, José Manuel Naredo, director del programa “Economía y Naturaleza” de la Fundación Argentaria, y quizás el investigador español más prestigioso en el área de la economía ecológica, valora las perspectivas de este necesario giro en la gestión y planificación hidrológica desde su innovador y sugestivo enfoque económico-ecológico.
Download or read book Liquid Power written by Erik Swyngedouw and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the central role of water politics and engineering in Spain's modernization, illustrating water's part in forging, maintaining, and transforming social power. In this book, Erik Swyngedouw explores how water becomes part of the tumultuous processes of modernization and development. Using the experience of Spain as a lens to view the interplay of modernity and environmental transformation, Swyngedouw shows that every political project is also an environmental project. In 1898, Spain lost its last overseas colony, triggering a period of post-imperialist turmoil still referred to as El Disastre. Turning inward, the nation embarked on “regeneration” and modernization. Water played a central role in this; during a turbulent period from the twentieth century into the twenty-first—through the Franco years and into the new era of liberal democracy—Spain's waterscapes were completely transformed, with large-scale projects that ranged from dam construction to irrigation to desalinization. Swyngedouw describes the contested political-ecological process that marked this transformation, showing that the Spain's diverse and contested paths to modernization were predicated on particular trajectories of environmental transformation. After laying out his theoretical perspectives, Swyngedouw analyzes three periods of Spain's political-ecological modernization: the aspirations and stalled modernization of the early twentieth century; the accelerated efforts under the authoritarian Franco regime—which included six hundred dams, expanded hydroelectricity, and massive irrigation; and the changing hydro-social landscape under social democracy. Offering an innovative perspective on the relationship of nature and society, Liquid Power illuminates the political nature of nature.
Download or read book Planning Major Infrastructure written by Tim Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering? Case studies of the key features of policy and planning approaches in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK are at the core of Planning Major Infrastructure. This includes the different regimes introduced in England and Wales, and Scotland, brought in by reforms since 2006. High speed rail, renewable energy deployment, water management, waste treatment - all raise critical planning issues. The case studies connect to the big issues of principle which haunt this field of public policy: how can democratic legitimacy be secured? How can ecological and economic transitions be managed? What is the appropriate role of the national government in each of these areas, as against other levels? What part has the EU played, and should it be involved in the future? These are some of the central themes raised in this innovating exploration of this currently high profile field.
Download or read book Water Governance written by Asanga Gunawansa and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔEnsuring that everybody has access to drinking water, sanitation and enough nutritious food, which depends on water to grow it, are prerequisites for a healthy life. Water management is not just about the technical aspects of water supply and sanitation. It is equally about our water governance systems, including policies, regulation and societal perception of water rights. This book presents many helpful examples of how different societies are dealing with these issues and of the performance of public and private sector players in this important arena.Õ Ð Colin Chartres, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka ÔI congratulate the Institute of Water Policy, the two editors and the contributors for a very thoughtful book on urban water governance. Our objective is to deliver sustainable water and sanitation services to our people. This book contains useful lessons on how to achieve that objective.Õ Ð Tommy Koh, Chairman, Governing Council, Asia-Pacific Water Forum This insightful book explores urban water governance challenges in different parts of the world and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of publicly run, privatized, and publicÐprivate partnership managed water facilities. The contributors expertly discuss various types of public and private water governance architectures as well as identifying the trends, challenges, opportunities and the shifts in perceptions with regard to the provision of water supply services. Many chapters are dedicated to analyzing the urban water supply scenarios in selected countries, with specific focus on legal, policy and institutional frameworks. The study reveals that while private sector participation has been largely promoted by multilateral institutions as part of institutional and financial reforms, ultimately governments bear the major responsibility for provision of water supply services either as Ôservice providerÕ or as Ôregulator and policy-makerÕ. Containing a detailed overview and analysis of the global urban water supply sector, this timely compendium will strongly appeal to academics, researchers and university students following water-related courses. Water sector professionals, water regulators and public officers as well as managers and researchers employed by private sector water operators will also find plenty of invaluable information in this important book.
Download or read book La nueva cultura del agua en el siglo XXI written by Pedro Arrojo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Una cita europea con la nueva cultura del agua written by Nuno Grande and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agua r os y pueblos written by Fundación Nueva Cultura del Agua and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtuous Waters written by Casey Walsh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Virtuous Waters is the first study of mineral waters and bathing in Mexico. It traces the evolving ideas about these waters, from European contact to the present, in order to shed new light on human-environment relations in the modern world. Our relation to water is among the most urgent of global issues, as increasing scarcity and pollution threaten food shortages, deteriorating public health, and the collapse of aquatic ecosystems. Drawing on ideas from political ecology, the author brings together an analysis of the shifts in the concept of water and a material history of environments, infrastructures, and bathing. The book analyzes a range of issues concerning complex "water cultures" that have formed around Mexican groundwaters over time and suggests that this understanding might also help us comprehend and confront the water crisis that is coming to a head in the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.
