New Water Regimes: An Editorial

Cantor, Alida; Emel, Jacque L.

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“…They uphold Indigenous peoples’ reciprocal relationships with and knowledge of the human and other-than-human world (George and Wiebe, 2020; Temper, 2019), promote recovery from systemic injustices (Fernandez et al., 2021; Tuck and Yang, 2012) and support Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination (Muller et al., 2019). For example, scholarship on Indigenous water governance in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand (hereafter Aotearoa) demonstrates how settler colonial water regimes have marginalised and created a multitude of harms for Indigenous peoples (Cantor and Emel, 2018; Parsons et al., 2019). Further, it identifies opportunities for co-management that are congruent with Indigenous understandings of the landscape and ecosystem dynamics, and enable Indigenous groups to practice their customary responsibilities to water in their ancestral territories through governance and action (Fox et al., 2017; Sarna-Wojcicki et al., 2019).…”

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Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

Johnson

Parsons

Fisher

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Although Indigenous peoples’ perspectives and concerns have not always been accommodated in climate change adaptation research and practice, a burgeoning literature is helping to reframe and decolonise climate adaptation in line with Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. In this review, we bring together climate adaptation, decolonising and intersectional scholarship to chart the progress that has been made in better analysing and responding to climate change in Indigenous contexts. We identify a wealth of literature helping to decolonise climate adaptation scholarship and praxis by attending to colonial and neo-colonial injustices implicated in Indigenous peoples’ climate vulnerability, taking seriously Indigenous peoples’ relational ontologies, and promoting adaptation that draws on Indigenous capacities and aspirations for self-determination and cultural continuity. Despite calls to interrogate heterogenous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities, the decolonising climate and adaptation scholarship has made limited advances in this area. We examine the small body of research that takes an intersectional approach to climate adaptation and explores how the multiple subjectivities and identities that Indigenous peoples occupy produce unique vulnerabilities, capacities and encounters with adaptation policy. We suggest the field might be expanded by drawing on related studies from Indigenous development, natural resource management, conservation, feminism, health and food sovereignty. Greater engagement with intersectionality works to drive innovation in decolonising climate adaptation scholarship and practice. It can mitigate the risk of maladaptation, avoid entrenchment of inequitable power dynamics, and ensures that even the most marginal groups within Indigenous communities benefit from adaptation policies and programmes.

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Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

Johnson

Parsons

Fisher

2021

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond

2021

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The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile

Campero

Harris

2019

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The use of desalination has been increasing in recent years. Although this is not a new technology, its use often proceeds within ill-defined and ambiguous legal, institutional, economic and political frameworks. This article addresses these considerations for the case of Chile, and offers an evaluation of legal ambiguities regarding differences between desalinated water and other freshwater sources and associated consequences. This discussion reviews court records and legal documents of two companies operating desalination plants, both of which have simultaneous rights granted for underground water exploitation: the water supply company in the Antofagasta Region and Candelaria mining company in the Atacama Region. The analysis shows that issues of ambiguity and gaps in the legal system have been exploited in ways that allow these entities to continue the use and consumption of mountain water. They do so by producing desalinated water, and by entering into water transfer and diversion contracts with the mining sector. These findings highlight the importance of undefined socio-legal terrain in terms of shifting hydro-geographies of mining territories, contributing conceptually to critical geographies of desalination, delineating the importance of legal geographies important for water governance, as well as empirically documenting the significance of this case to consider shifts for the mining sector and water technologies and uses in contemporary Chile.

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New Water Regimes: An Editorial

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond

The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile

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