Coping with scarcity: The construction of the water conservation imperative in newspapers (1999–2018)

Boyer, Anne-Lise; Lay, Yves-François Le; Marty, Pascal

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102387

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“…More recently, they have been reframed as climate change adaptation strategies, as ways of coping with more frequent extreme events (e.g., drought and flood) and the challenge of maintaining healthy water resources in terms of quantity and quality (Deligios et al, 2019; Olmstead, 2014; Skidmore & Wheaton, 2022). In particular, the broad objective of water conservation is the reduction in water loss and water use, often via demand management; the implementation of such strategies relies therefore on a renewed connection between water users and the materiality of the water resource they have access to, an access often rendered invisible by modern infrastructures (Boyer et al, 2021; Kaika, 2014; Linton, 2010). River restoration depends on human intervention to restore the disrupted connections within the operations of a hydrosystem (Morandi et al, 2021; Sneddon et al, 2017).…”

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The social connectivity of subsurface flows: Towards a better integration of the vertical dimension in socio‐hydrosystem studies

Boyer,

Blanchon,

Schmitt

et al. 2023

WIREs Water

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This contribution points out that while the importance of hydrologic, geomorphic, ecological, temporal, and socio‐cultural connectivity in the functioning of hydrosystems has been acknowledged in three dimensions (longitudinal, lateral, and vertical), vertical connectivity has often been overlooked. Drawing on a multidisciplinary literature review, the authors aim to highlight the socio‐cultural connectivity of subsurface flows and aquifers as a crucial factor for socio‐hydrosystem understanding and management. The piece builds on emergent literature which underscores how groundwater, shallow groundwater, and the hyporheic zone are coproduced by nature and society through time. Furthermore, the review explores how verticality has become an important heuristic dimension at the intersection of the environmental and social sciences, and there has been a particular focus on the hyporheic zone to look at how notions of interstitiality and (in)visibility can be better integrated with socio‐hydrosystem science and management. Finally, the paper calls for further research to integrate the vertical dimension of hydrosystems into more comprehensive socio‐hydrological frameworks, which remain, at times, empirically and theoretically weak on questions of social power, even if they do incorporate aspects of political systems. Especially as societies' relationships to groundwater may be at the heart of climate change adaptation strategies, greater consideration of the social connectivity to subflows is a necessary direction for sustainable water resource management and scholarship.This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance Science of Water > Hydrological Processes Science of Water > Water and Environmental Change

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The social connectivity of subsurface flows: Towards a better integration of the vertical dimension in socio‐hydrosystem studies

Boyer,

Blanchon,

Schmitt

et al. 2023

WIREs Water

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“…Adaptation is an adjustment in the socio-ecological and economic system in response to actual and expected change in climate (Smit & Pilifosova, 2003), and a planning and decision-making process to mitigate the problems caused by any hazards (Ahmed et al, 2021). For example, to cope with changes in climate, farmers adopt adaptation choices such as planting new crop varieties, changing planting dates, using pest-resistant varieties (Suresh et al, 2021, Webber et al, 2014, water conservation (Boyer et al, 2021;Meckonnen et al, 2021), selling off livestock (Kehler & Birchall, 2021), changing crop composition (Schlingmann et al, 2021), and applying fertilizers (Erbas & Solakoglu, 2017;Wing et al, 2021). Over the years, adaptation to climate change has evolved as the most effective tool in mitigating adverse climatic effects (Chattopadhyay & Hulme, 1997).…”

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Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Rajasthan

2022

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Climate change is a globally challenging phenomenon that is particularly distressing for the agricultural sector, as agricultural products and productivity depend on the climate. This study analyses agricultural households? perception of climate change and the adaption strategies undertaken to mitigate it. A purposive random sampling technique is used to collect primary data from a survey conducted in the arid and semi-arid regions of Rajasthan, India. The study employs logistic regression to identify the determinants of the perception of climate change and adaptation strategies, while a livelihood vulnerability index is constructed to indicate households? degree of vulnerability, focusing especially on adaptive capacity. Out of the total sample of 600 households analysed, 534 perceive a long-term change in the climate. Farmers? adaptation strategies include crop diversification, mixed cropping, crop rotation, and farm ponds. The major factors affecting adaptation are the educational status of the household head, farming experience, type of financial support, agricultural training, land size, access to agricultural institutions, distance between the household and farmland, and storage. The livelihood vulnerability index shows that most of the households are moderately vulnerable. The study recommends an efficient weather forecasting system and effective government policies to improve credit availability, financial support, and agricultural mechanization.

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Urban flooding and the resultant pollution: What French-speaking scientists make of it?

Genouel,

Comby,

Le Lay

et al. 2024

Anthropocene

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Coping with scarcity: The construction of the water conservation imperative in newspapers (1999–2018)

Cited by 8 publications

References 97 publications

The social connectivity of subsurface flows: Towards a better integration of the vertical dimension in socio‐hydrosystem studies

The social connectivity of subsurface flows: Towards a better integration of the vertical dimension in socio‐hydrosystem studies

Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Rajasthan

Urban flooding and the resultant pollution: What French-speaking scientists make of it?

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