Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

Zwarteveen, Margreet; Boelens, Rutgerd

doi:10.1080/02508060.2014.891168

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“…Budds and McGranahan, 2003;Zeitoun and McLaughlin, 2013;Zwarteveen and Boelens, 2014) may shed light that can serve to reform these structures. Other examples include the investigations that have served to shake the complacency of ministries and donor-created Water User Associations in South Africa (Kemerink et al, 2013), as well as those that have compelled the re-allocation of water to indigenous groups in Australia (e.g.…”

Section: Working With Diversity and Inustice In Society And The Envirmentioning

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Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

Zeitoun

Lankford

Krueger

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Global Environmental Change

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(2016) Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges. Global Environmental Change, 39 . pp. 143-154. ISSN 0959-3780 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016 Reuse of this item is permitted through licensing under the Creative Commons: AbstractThis article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing reductionist approach seeks to represent uncertainty through calculable risk, links national GDP tightly to hydro-climatological causes, and underplays diversity and politics in society. When adopted uncritically, this approach limits policy-makers to interventions that may reproduce inequalities, and that are too rigid to deal with future changes in society and climate. A second, more integrative, approach is found to address a range of uncertainties, explicitly recognise diversity in society and the environment, incorporate water resources that are less-easily controlled, and consider adaptive approaches to move beyond conventional supply-side prescriptions. The resultant policy recommendations are diverse, inclusive, and more likely to reach the marginalised in society, though they often encounter policy-uptake obstacles. The article concludes by defining a route towards more effective water security research and policy, which stresses analysis that matches the state of knowledge possessed, an expanded research agenda, and explicitly addresses inequities.Complex Water Security

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Section: Working With Diversity and Inustice In Society And The Envirmentioning

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Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

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Lankford

Krueger

et al. 2016

Global Environmental Change

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“…Both approaches are relevant in this work, given the historical intervention of the state and private capital in both the dispossession of Mapuche's common lands and forestry development. Finally, C) what is termed the movement for environmental justice and recent applications to water justice (PULIDO, 2000;HOLIFIELD, 2001;BOLIN et al, 2005;CUTTER, 2005;SIKOR et al, 2014;ZWARTEVEEN ET AL, 2014), which we propose as an analytical framework for research the socio-ecological conflict between the state, forestry corporations and Mapuche people.…”

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“…In particular, we emphasize how these water injustices are being mobilized politically (ZWARTEVEEN ET AL, 2014). The emerging concept of water justice incorporates cultural (recognition) and political dimensions (participation) of the water struggles in socio-ecologically situated contexts (ZWARTEVEEN ET AL, 2014). This configures new political and hydrosocial conflicts that challenge the academic, political and activist debate to advance environmental and water justice in Chile.…”

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Forestry development, water scarcity, and the Mapuche protest for environmental justice in Chile

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From a theoretical approach based on political ecology and environmental justice, we assess how forestry development has generated socio-spatial dynamics of environmental degradation and water scarcity in southern Chile. Through historical-geographical and ethnographic methods, we discuss how and why the spread of forestry plantations has significantly influenced social and environmental degradation of the Mapuche's modes of living. In response, during recent decades a political articulation of a Mapuche social movement is observed. Their demands include land, autonomy, rights and opportunities to frame their own development strategies. Within the internal diversity of this movement, a key principle is reversing the spread of environmental degradation by recovering the native forest and its natural water cycles, which have been disrupted significantly by the increasing of forestry plantations. We explore these dynamics of the Mapuche movement from an environmental justice approach.

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“…Many developing countries are utilized inter-basin water transfer projects, transferring water from water-rich areas to water-poor areas using inter-basin water transfers (Wilson et al, 2017). As water is a finite nature resource, has also considered as an intrinsically contested resource (Zwarteveen & Boelens, 2014), these projects may also create water conflicts between water source areas and receiving areas. The South-to-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) in China is also no exception.…”

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An Eco-Compensation Strategy in the Water Source Area: A Case for Southern Shaanxi in China

Ze-lin¹,

Zhang²

2018

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The South-to-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) in China which is the world's largest water transfer project completed in 2014 is promoted as a strategy to mitigate water stresses in the northern China by the Chinese government and engineers. However, the ecological compensation of SNWTP in China has been slow and less for the people living in the water source area which was lost their opportunities to earn money; some had even lost their farmland. A key issue for SNWTP is to establish an eco-compensation system, define the compensation scheme, and make an effective economic compensation to the people living in the water source area. In this paper, we take the water source area of the Middle-Route project of SNWTP located in Southern Shaanxi including three cities called Hanzhong, Ankang and Shangluo as the research regions. Six factors are taken into consideration: (1) ecological losses, (2) economic losses and (3) ecological bonus in our eco-compensation strategy, as well as join two dynamic factors accounting in the calculation of ecological damage, (4) water quantity and (5) water quality. Besides, the total amount of compensation is changing over time. (6) Time scale factor is also used to simulate. In the article, we set three-time periods to calculate the different amount of compensation for the water source area. Finally, the Southern Shaanxi, supplied 70% water to Danjiangkou Reservoir, were analyzed by this model. We make full use of the reasonable eco-compensation strategy and try to solve actual problems of water source area and even provide a basis conception for the watershed protection and management.

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Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action

Cited by 255 publications

References 37 publications

Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

Forestry development, water scarcity, and the Mapuche protest for environmental justice in Chile

An Eco-Compensation Strategy in the Water Source Area: A Case for Southern Shaanxi in China

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