Browsing by Author "Hoogesteger, Jaime"

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Normative Structures, Collaboration and Conflict in Irrigation: A Case Study of the Pillaro North Canal Irrigation System, Ecuadorian Highlands
(2015) Hoogesteger, Jaime
"This paper analyzes conflict and collaboration and their relation to normative structures based on a case study of the history and external interventions of the Píllaro North Canal Irrigation System in the Ecuadorian Highlands. It does so by using Ostrom’s framework for analyzing the sustainability of socio-ecological systems together with an analysis of the normative structures that define the governance systems through which the interactions in irrigation systems are mediated. I argue that the external interventions by the state and NGOs imposed a new governance system that undermined the existing normative structures and related organizations, leading to internal conflicts. The case study suggests that a reformulation of irrigation policies and state intervention methodologies in user managed supra-community irrigation systems in the Andes could lead to higher levels of cooperation."
Social Capital Transformation in the Ecuadorian Highlands: A Case Study of the Pillaro Irrigation System, Tungurahua
(2012) Hoogesteger, Jaime
"In this paper I show, based on the case study of the Pillaro Ramal Norte Irrigation system how a new autonomous supra-community water user organization conformed with the support of an external agent. I describe how the water user organizations consolidated based on the trans-formation of inward and outward looking social capital. I argue that the support of external agents was important in bringing about this trans-formation. External agents facilitated the development of a shared new normative framework in newly created water user organizations and developed technical and organizational water management skills of water users within the confines of the irrigation systems. Nevertheless in creating new water management organizations it shifted existing power positions and social capital at the detriment of the already existing community and second tier organizations that initially struggled for the construction of the irrigation system."