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DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.030 |
Corruption and conflicts as barriers to adaptive governance: Water governance in dryland systems in the Rio del Carmen watershed | |
Porras, Gabriel Lopez; Stringer, Lindsay C.; Quinn, Claire H. | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0048-9697 |
EISSN | 1879-1026 |
卷号 | 660页码:519-530 |
英文摘要 | Water governance in the Rio del Carmen watershed has failed to achieve sustainable water use, generating social conflicts, water overexploitation, and grassland loss. This leaves it unable to adapt and learn, to reconcile different stakeholder perspectives and to adequately respond to uncertainty. Adaptive water governance regulates water access through flexible, inclusive and innovative institutions, increasing system adaptive capacity in the face of uncertainty. This is necessary forwater-scarce systems since they suffer context-specific exposure to land degradation and climate change. This research focuses on how water governance regulates water access in the Rio del Carmen watershed, Mexico, identifying key legal and institutional features that could increase adaptation and secure water resources in the long-term. 27 semi-structured interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in the watershed, in order to understand the water governance structure and its system dynamics. It was found that water mismanagement, overexploitation, and conflicts over access to water are due to the lack of application and neglect of formal rules. Results indicate that breaches of the legal framework are commonplace, permitted by corruption of both former and current government officials. Many farmers have institutionalized this corruption in order to access water; increasing social conflicts and hindering any type of planning or water management, which, in turn, continues to affect the ecological conditions of the watershed. By understanding the governance system, its structure and the interactions that weaken and bypass formal institutions to the detriment of water resources, stakeholder engagement has emerged as an entry point for enabling collaboration and acceptance of formal institutions. This process has the potential to create a formal network, as a Watershed Committee, that could be honoured in practice through the efficacy of this engagement. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源期刊 | SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/96416 |
作者单位 | Univ Leeds, Sch Earth & Environm, Sustainabil Res Inst, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Porras, Gabriel Lopez,Stringer, Lindsay C.,Quinn, Claire H.. Corruption and conflicts as barriers to adaptive governance: Water governance in dryland systems in the Rio del Carmen watershed[J],2019,660:519-530. |
APA | Porras, Gabriel Lopez,Stringer, Lindsay C.,&Quinn, Claire H..(2019).Corruption and conflicts as barriers to adaptive governance: Water governance in dryland systems in the Rio del Carmen watershed.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,660,519-530. |
MLA | Porras, Gabriel Lopez,et al."Corruption and conflicts as barriers to adaptive governance: Water governance in dryland systems in the Rio del Carmen watershed".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 660(2019):519-530. |
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