Droits d'eau et institutions communautaires dans les Pyrénées-Orientales

Ruf, Thierry

doi:10.3917/hsr.016.0011

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“…Water withdrawal for irrigation is particularly elevated for the Tet River (>80% of Qobs), underlining its outstanding role in terms of water use. Because of the steep elevation gradient and an important share of snowfall in total precipitation (Table 1), supporting water discharge during the snowmelt period in spring, a dense network of irrigation channels has been developed here since the Middle Ages [49]. It still supports gravitational irrigation techniques, which are highly water consuming.…”

Section: Water and Land Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Unravelling Climate and Anthropogenic Forcings on the Evolution of Surface Water Resources in Southern France

Labrousse

Ludwig

Pinel

et al. 2020

Water

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In the Mediterranean, climate change and human pressures are expected to significantly impact the availability of surface water resources. In order to quantify these impacts during the last 60 years (1959–2018), we examined the hydro-climatic and land use change evolution in six coastal river basins of the Gulf of Lion in southern France. By combining observed water discharge, gridded climate, mapped land use and agricultural censuses data, we propose a statistical regression model which successfully reproduces the variability of annual water discharge in all basins. Our results clearly demonstrate that, despite important anthropogenic water withdrawals for irrigation, climate change is the major driver for the detected reduction of water discharge. The model can explain 78–88% of the variability of annual water discharge in the study catchments. It requires only two climatic indices that are solely computed from monthly temperature (T) and precipitation (P) data, thus allowing the estimation of the respective contributions of both parameters in the detected changes. According to our results, the study region experienced on average a warming trend of 1.6 °C during the last 60 years which alone was responsible for a reduction of almost 25% of surface water resources.

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Section: Water and Land Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Unravelling Climate and Anthropogenic Forcings on the Evolution of Surface Water Resources in Southern France

Labrousse

Ludwig

Pinel

et al. 2020

Water

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“…However, there are exceptional regions where farmers on their own have sustained traditional irrigation practice to date like the Valais (Grove and Grove, ; Crook and Jones, ; Rodewald and Knoepfel, 2011), the Aosta Valley (Reynard, ; Vauterin, ) and Southern Tyrol (Menara, ; Figure ) in the Alps, the Rednitz–Regnitz Valley in Middle Franconia (field investigation 2011), Theresienfeld in the Vienna basin (field investigation 2009), the Languedoc‐Roussillon region (Ruf, ; Buisson and Dutoit, ; Merot et al ., ; Bachimon et al ., ; Allain, ), the north‐western part of the Iberian peninsula (Moreira et al ., ; van den Dries, ; Guillet, ; Estabrook, ; Pôças et al ., ), Las Alpujarras at the southern edge of the Sierra Nevada (Wright and Campbell, ) and the Făgăraş region in Transylvania (Botzan et al ., ). Apparently the benefits of traditional irrigation are still valued by the farmers, whether it is the moistening function in the case of the alpine regions, the warming, growth‐stimulating function in Tras‐os Montes or the specific possibility of producing the traditional high‐value hay with a certified origin product (COP) label of La Crau.…”

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European Traditional Irrigation in Transition Part Ii: Traditional Irrigation in Our Time-Decline, Rediscovery and Restoration Perspectives

Leibundgut

Kohn

2014

Irrig. and Drain.

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The first part of this review demonstrates that before the twentieth century, traditional irrigation schemes were widespread and a characteristic feature of European landscapes. Rapid decline in traditional irrigation practice ensued following the arrival of agricultural industrialization. Today working traditional irrigation systems are rare exceptions, yet relic features can still frequently be found in the field. Consequently, the tradition of irrigation is diminishing and comprehensive documentation and reconstruction are urgent issues. Moreover, full recognition of irrigation tradition as a rural patrimony of high complexity is needed. Irreversible demise of irrigation operation entails the loss of genuine traditional irrigation landscapes as they were a characteristic part of many regions once. Indeed, interest in traditional irrigation has reawakened recently. Beneficial functions and services of traditional irrigation have been recognized apart from purely agricultural profitability. Increasingly initiatives for revitalization of irrigation emerge, often from nature, biodiversity and landscape conservation circles. Due to conflicts and competing management demands local restoration projects face many challenges. Yet a great potential for creating win–win outcomes by adequate multifunctional landscape management is demonstrated by the existing projects, where the restoration of an extensive heritage landscape could be realized. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The local economy is closely tied to them. Today, as in the past, water is key to agriculture in this region, and one has to view agriculture as inseparable from water (Ruf, 2001).…”

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Collective irrigation, the state and social relations in the Eastern Pyrenees of France

Delay

Linton

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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In this article, we consider the social effects of a large dam in the Eastern Pyrenees region of France. In 1976, the French state constructed a dam near the town of Vinça on the Têt River, altering the hydrological conditions that had co-produced a complex system of hydro-social relations evolved since the Middle Ages. We argue that through altering the relative proximity of dependencies between farmers and between farmers and the state, the dam has had the effect of transferring expertise and social power from local to central authority. However, this shift is made difficult by the evolution of local farmers associations to take advantage of the new hydrological circumstances produced by the dam. The production of hydrological certainty assured by the dam has changed the raison d'etre for these associations (known as Association Syndicale Autorisée), providing them with new opportunities such as in the development of pressurized drip irrigation. In these circumstances, the relations between the Association Syndicale Autorisée and the state produce a hybridized authority over water, neither quite centralized nor local but combining both. We draw from Bookchin's elaboration of 'post-scarcity anarchism' as well as Bouba-Olga and Grossetti's concept of proximities to describe the pitfalls and the promises of pressurized irrigation in the region, made possible by the dam.

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Droits d'eau et institutions communautaires dans les Pyrénées-Orientales

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Unravelling Climate and Anthropogenic Forcings on the Evolution of Surface Water Resources in Southern France

Unravelling Climate and Anthropogenic Forcings on the Evolution of Surface Water Resources in Southern France

European Traditional Irrigation in Transition Part Ii: Traditional Irrigation in Our Time-Decline, Rediscovery and Restoration Perspectives

Collective irrigation, the state and social relations in the Eastern Pyrenees of France

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