Los espacios invisibles: Subordinación, marginalidad y exclusión de los territorios no irrigados en las tierras secas de Mendoza, Argentina

Montaña, Elma; Torres, Laura; Abraham, Elena María; Torres, Eduardo; Pastor, G. M.

doi:10.22198/rys.2005.32.a598

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“…After droughts both study areas have experienced institutional innovations and infrastructure development, which has increased significantly their regional adaptive capacity Salas et al, 2012;Montaña, 2008). Irrigation has allowed both study areas the ability to develop an oasis in otherwise dryland river basins; irrigation is regarded as a key adaptation, and has allowed expansion of both nations' agricultural productivity (Wheat et al, 2008;Montaña et al, 2005). Can this state of affairs continue into the future given the pressures of increased development and climate change on the two basins studied herein in Alberta and Mendoza?…”

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“…Irrigation is considered a key component to expand national agricultural productivity (Wheaton et al, 2008;Montaña et al, 2005). The SSRB is located within a region that has also experienced several multi-year droughts during the last century (Wheaton et al, 2008).…”

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“…Irrigators would be able to gain from the potential of increased prices and better yields. The situation is even more contrasted in the drylands of western Argentina, where agriculture is only possible through systematic irrigation (Montaña et al, 2005). This paper interrogates how water governance structures may facilitate these dryland irrigated areas to weather a future changing climate.…”

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Dimensions of Adaptive Water Governance and Drought in Argentina and Canada

Hurlbert¹,

Montaña²

2015

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Climate change in many local and regional scales is expected to include climate hazards and extreme conditions including hailstorms, droughts, floods, hurricanes, hail, tornadoes and storms. Droughts are serious climate hazards threatening water supply for human consumption and also agricultural production and are anticipated to increase in intensity and duration in both Mendoza, Argentina and southern Alberta, Canada.Both Mendoza and Alberta have irrigated agriculture and their rivers are fed primarily by snowmelt and rainfall runoff from mountainous headwaters. Many similarities exist between water law and governance in the Mendoza river basin, Argentina and the Oldman river basin in southern Alberta, Canada. However, many differences also exist. Can these governance systems ensure the continuation of agricultural production in the area into the future given increased development and climate change?Utilizing the institutional design principles of adaptive capacity and water governance, this paper will compare and contrast the water governance institutional structures in the two study areas. Data was obtained from two multi-disciplinary studies of institutional adaptation to climate change studying vulnerability of local agricultural producers and communities to climate change, and the interplay of water governance structures, and adaptive capacities. The water governance systems of both countries show concerns relating to gaps in information and equitable outcomes; in addition there are concerns of a lack of capacity to enable reflexivity. Both systems have been responsive (although there is room for improvement). Through strengthening these identified weaknesses these systems can continue to be resilient into the future.

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Dimensions of Adaptive Water Governance and Drought in Argentina and Canada

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Montaña²

2015

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“…For irrigated producers, water instruments and economic instruments have created a hydraulic society, or one that relies on the dam and irrigation system that created the oasis (Montana et al 2005). Interviewees believed that this should be recognized, protected in practice, and preserved.…”

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The adaptive capacity of institutions in Canada, Argentina, and Chile to droughts and floods

Hurlbert

Gupta

2016

Reg Environ Change

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The increasing evidence of global warming calls on all states to enhance their adaptive capacity to deal with climate change. This paper compares the adaptive capacity of two Canadian provinces, the province of Mendoza, Argentina and the administrative region of Coquimbo, Chile in relation to the vulnerability of farmers to droughts and floods by applying the adaptive capacity wheel (ACW). It concludes that Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada are particularly weak in terms of double-and triple-loop learning and in developing adaptive capacity in an equitable manner, probably attributable to strong climate scepticism in society and the weak economy. In the developing countries of Chile and Argentina, resources to assist with adaptation are often lacking; in Coquimbo, future learning is precarious because of information deficits in relation to data, memory, trust, and responsiveness; in Mendoza, institutions lack variety (redundancy of programs), resources, and governance processes are inadequately responsive. The paper makes contributions at the regional level by recommending that specific institutional weaknesses and lack of responsiveness be remedied by adopting appropriate missing instruments (perhaps, for example, water transfer provisions in Mendoza). New findings are made in relation to the dimensions of fair governance and learning capacity in the ACW. While learning capacity was closely linked to the dimension of leadership, the deficit of equity was closely linked to other indicators of fair governance (legitimacy, responsiveness, and accountability).

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“…Desde esta perspectiva, la provincia estaría conformada por dos espacios autónomos, con economías y estilos de vida muy divergentes entre sí (Abraham y Prieto, 1981; Cirelli y Abraham (Eds. ), 2005; Montaña, Torres, Abraham, Torres y Pastor, 2005;Triviño, 2004), dejando de lado a aquellas investigaciones que analizan la interacción entre los actores que conviven a ambos lados de los últimos canales de riego, las disputas cotidianas por el agua y por la obtención de tierras con concesiones hídricas.…”

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«Huarpes no tan huarpes» y «hombres modernos»: interpelaciones étnicas y disputas por las últimas tierras irrigadas en Mendoza (Argentina)

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Los espacios invisibles: Subordinación, marginalidad y exclusión de los territorios no irrigados en las tierras secas de Mendoza, Argentina

Cited by 39 publications

References 1 publication

Dimensions of Adaptive Water Governance and Drought in Argentina and Canada

Dimensions of Adaptive Water Governance and Drought in Argentina and Canada

The adaptive capacity of institutions in Canada, Argentina, and Chile to droughts and floods

«Huarpes no tan huarpes» y «hombres modernos»: interpelaciones étnicas y disputas por las últimas tierras irrigadas en Mendoza (Argentina)

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