Resilience and adaptations of rural communities and agricultural land use in the tropical Andes: Coping with environmental and socio-economic changes

Stadel, Ch.

doi:10.3989/pirineos.2008.v163.19

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“…Los ecosistemas de montaña forman la base principal de vida de muchos agricultores en los Andes centrales (Borsdorf y Stadel, 2015;Dollfus, 1991;Gade, 1999). Sin embargo, los procesos del cambio global, con dimensiones ambientales y socioculturales (véanse por ejemplo Bebbington, 2001;Grover, Borsdorf, Breuste, Tiwari y Witkowski-Frangetto, 2015;Sarmiento, 2008;Stadel, 2008;Young, 2014), los están transformando desde hace más de treinta años. Como consecuencia, se está cambiando también la base de vida de muchas familias campesinas, quienes desarrollan estrategias de adaptación, a veces causando conflictos con la población urbana.…”

Section: I Problemas Y Preguntas De Investigaciónunclassified

Los servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos: entre la urbanización y el cambio climático. Percepción campesina y experta en la subcuenca del río Shullcas, Perú

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2018

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El trabajo concluye reconociendo percepciones similares y observando nexos entre «la ciudad» y «el campo», la priorización de SEH, la relevancia de los factores y responsables de cambio y la necesidad urgente de una visión sistémica, holística, interdisciplinaria y con inclusión de actores, para el fomento del desarrollo sostenible y la buena gestión de la subcuenca. Palabras clave: servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos, comunidades campesinas, Andes centrales, percepción social. Hydrologic ecosystem services: between urbanization and climate change. Smallholder and expert perception in the Shullcas river subbasin, Peru A Mountain ecosystems, such as the central Andes, are a source of life that provides hydrologic ecosystem services-HES to the population. In the case of the Shullcas river subbasin, located between the nevado Huaytapallana and the city of Huancayo in Peru, these ecosystems are affected by the retreat of glaciers and precipitation variations, driven by climate change, and physical, demographic and socio-cultural urbanization-particularly in the rural-urban transition zone. The resulting degradation, contamination, and overexploitation of the subbasin contribute to hydric stress and water shortages and affect both HES and the wellbeing of the population. This research aims at strengthening an integrated and holistic vision for sustainable development and reveals perceptions of different actors-agrarian water users and experts of institutions-toward HES in the Shullcas river subbasin. To this end, a questionnaire was designed and applied. The results show similar perceptions in both groups regarding the identification of HES and the assessment of their importance, vulnerability, and trends of future disposability. Moreover, they mostly agree on the factors of influence and actors who are responsible for the decline of water resources. This study concludes that perceptions of both groups are similar-underlining strong rural-urban interactions. It points to the prioritization of selected HES and the relevance of factors and actors responsible for change, and calls for a systemic, holistic, and interdisciplinary vision and inclusive action to strengthen sustainable development and good water governance in the sub-basin.

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Los servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos: entre la urbanización y el cambio climático. Percepción campesina y experta en la subcuenca del río Shullcas, Perú

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2018

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“…The Latin America chapters of the IPCC reports (Magrin et al 2014) remain key references in the field. Most literature refers to the tropical Andes (Stadel 2008(Stadel , 2009Carrascal et al 2012) and the Colombian paramos (Angel and Sandino 2010) and focuses on national actions or policies (Buenfil 2013;DAPA-CIAT 2013;Gonza ´lez et al 2011;Jarvis et al 2010;Lampis 2012;Mendoza Vereau 2012). Postigo et al (2012) analyze the vulnerability of small Tropical Andean producers focusing on the links between climate change and productive systems, while social processes are introduced secondarily.…”

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Development, local livelihoods, and vulnerabilities to global environmental change in the South American Dry Andes

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Climate change will increasingly impact large areas of South America, affecting important natural resources and people's livelihoods. These impacts will make rural people disproportionately more vulnerable, given their dependency on ecosystem services and their exposure to other stressors, such as new rules imposed by agribusiness and trends toward the commodification of natural resources. This paper focuses on the vulnerability of rural communities in Andean drylands of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, showing how different economic and political pathways lead to different levels of vulnerability. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the methodological and theoretical concept of vulnerability, which framed the research. Starting from the premise that global environmental change impacts are strongly linked to styles of development, the discussion explores the diverse institutional capital and governance schemes as well as different development styles in the case studies and their role in increasing or reducing local vulnerability to climate and water scarcity. Using a comparative perspective, the exposures and adaptive capacities of rural actors in three river basins are discussed, emphasizing situations that speak for the ways in which development styles counteract or magnify conditions of vulnerability. The analysis considers irrigated and non-irrigated agriculture, water property interests, different productive structures (viticulture, horticulture, etc.), producer typologies (large/small, export, etc.), and geographical location. Finally, the paper offers some insights about development style and adaptive capacities of rural people to overcome those vulnerabilities.

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“…Por ello compila, reinterpreta y sintetiza los resultados elaborados dentro del proyecto Crecimiento Rápido Urbano en los Andes: Percepción y Participación de la Población Local (proyecto P24692), que fue financiado por el fondo para la investigación científica Austrian Science Fund (FWF) de Austria durante el periodo 2012-2016. El trabajo debe ser visto como una contribución al desarrollo sostenible de las áreas rurales de montaña, que sufren (y a la vez se benefician) de la gran presión urbanizadora y el aumento de población, sobre todo en los Andes centrales (Córdova Aguilar, 2009;Stadel, 2008).…”

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Los impactos del crecimiento urbano en los campesinos andinos. Un estudio de percepción en la zona rural-urbana de Huancayo, Perú

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2017

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Resilience and adaptations of rural communities and agricultural land use in the tropical Andes: Coping with environmental and socio-economic changes

Abstract: "The most profound meaning of the Andes thus comes not from a physical description, but from the cultural outcome of 10 millenia of knowing, using, and transforming the varied environments of western

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Los servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos: entre la urbanización y el cambio climático. Percepción campesina y experta en la subcuenca del río Shullcas, Perú

Los servicios ecosistémicos hidrológicos: entre la urbanización y el cambio climático. Percepción campesina y experta en la subcuenca del río Shullcas, Perú

Development, local livelihoods, and vulnerabilities to global environmental change in the South American Dry Andes

Los impactos del crecimiento urbano en los campesinos andinos. Un estudio de percepción en la zona rural-urbana de Huancayo, Perú

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