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Water Resources and Governance Approaches: Insights for Achieving Water Security
(2021)
Integrated river basin management (IRBM) has been proposed as a means to achieve water security (WS), maximizing economic and social well-being in an equitable manner and maintaining ecosystem sustainability. IRBM is ...
Governing Water Resource Allocation: Water User Association Characteristics and the Role of the State
(2021)
Water, as a common pool resource, is threatened by the possibility of overextraction generating a negative economic impact, conflicts among users, and greater income inequality. Scholars have discussed different governance ...
Struggling for sustainable water governance. Social conflicts and alternatives from the bottom up in Mexico
(University of Bern, 2020-05)
Management of Water Resources in Agriculture in Chile and its Challenges
(PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, FAC AGRONOMIA INGENIERIA FORESTAL, 2021)
Water is a strategic resource for agricultural development, particularly in the arid and semiarid regions of central and northern Chile. Currently, irrigated surfaces contribute between 60 and 65% of the country's agricultural ...
Water markets and social-ecological resilience to water stress in the context of climate change: an analysis of the Limari Basin, Chile
(Springer, 2020)
The paper proposes an analysis of the social-ecological resilience of the Limari Basin, an agriculture-intensive dryland in the north of Chile, featuring one of the most innovative market-based water managements and the ...
Creating resilient water governance for irrigated producers in Mendoza, Argentina
(Elsevier, 2016-06)
This research explores the institutional water governance system of irrigated agricultural producers inMendoza, Argentina in the context of a changing climate (predominantly increasing events of drought and water scarcity). ...