Development, local livelihoods, and vulnerabilities to global environmental change in the South American Dry Andes
| Autor: | Margot Hurlbert, Harry Diaz, Elma Carmen Montaña |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Global and Planetary Change 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Commodification Environmental change business.industry SOUTH AMERICAN ANDES Environmental resource management Vulnerability DEVELOPMENT STYLES 010501 environmental sciences Livelihood 01 natural sciences Natural resource Ciencias Sociales Interdisciplinarias Ecosystem services Water scarcity CIENCIAS SOCIALES Agriculture Otras Ciencias Sociales GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMGE Economics business Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10113-015-0888-9 |
| Popis: | 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. Fil: Montaña, Elma Carmen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research; Uruguay Fil: Diaz, Harry Polo. University of Regina; Canadá Fil: Hurlbert, Margot. University of Regina; Canadá. University of Amsterdam; Países Bajos |
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