Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers

Autor: C. Dominguez Guzmán, A. Saidani, C. Olmos-Herrera, Zakaria Kadiri, L. Beckett, T. Hartani, Margreet Zwarteveen, M.T. Oré, K. Joseph, E. Mlimbila, Andres Verzijl, C. Frances, Lowe Börjeson, H. Kulkarni, Tavengwa Chitata, U. Aslekar, R. Deshmukh, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum, C. De Bont, F. Lu, Hans C. Komakech, Hind Ftouhi, Lisa Bossenbroek, M. Johnson, Sneha Bhat, Seema Kulkarni, S. Bhopal, M. Dajani, I. Leonardelli, Marcel Kuper, D. Joshi, A. Peterson
Přispěvatelé: University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages (UMR G-EAU), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-AgroParisTech-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft ), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), University of California, Stockholm University, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, University of Koblenz-Landau, University Hassan II [Casablanca], University of Sheffield [Sheffield], CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE DE TIPAZA DZA, Partenaires IRSTEA, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA), Centre de recherches en économie appliquée au développement (CREAD), University of Edinburgh, Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology [Arusha] (NM-AIST)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Elsevier, 2021, 49, pp.88-97. ⟨10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.004⟩
ISSN: 1877-3435
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.004⟩
Popis: International audience; If the success of agricultural intensification continues to rely on the depletion of aquifers and exploitation of (female) labour, transformations to groundwater sustainability will be impossible to achieve. Hence, the development of new groundwater imaginaries, based on alternative ways of organizing society-water relations is highly important. This paper argues that a comparative documentation of grass-roots initiatives to care for, share or recharge aquifers in places with acute resource pressures provides an important source of inspiration. Using a grounded anti-colonial and feminist approach, we combine an ethnographic documentation of groundwater practices with hydrogeological and engineering insights to enunciate, normatively assess and jointly learn from the knowledges, technologies and institutions that characterize such initiatives. Doing this usefully shifts the focus of planned efforts to regulate and govern groundwater away from government efforts to control individual pumping behaviours, to the identification of possibilities to anchor transformations to sustainability in collective action.
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