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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Pérez, Irene; Janssen, Marco A.; Giménez, A.; Tenza, A.; Pedreño, A.; Giménez, M. |
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Conference:
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Capturing the Complexity of the Commons, North American Regional Meeting of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
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Conf. Date:
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Sep. 30-Oct. 2 |
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Date:
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2010 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6529
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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Europe |
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Subject(s):
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common pool resources
globalization
groundwater
institutions
water management
adaptation
IASC
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Abstract:
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"Globalization increases traditional social-ecological systems’ (SES) vulnerability to the incursion of new resource appropriators, i.e., intruders. New external disturbances that increase the physical and socio-political accessibility of SES (e.g., construction of a new road) and weak points in institutional SES of valuable common-pool resources are some of the main factors that enhance the encroachment of intruders. The irrigation system of the northwest Murcia Region (Spain) is an example used in this article of the changes in the structure and robustness of a traditional SES as a result of intruders. Farmers have traditionally used water from springs to irrigate their lands but, in recent decades, large companies have settled in this region and use groundwater to irrigate new lands. This intrusion had led the levels of this resource to drop sharply. In an attempt to adapt, local communities are intensifying the use of resources and are constructing new physical infrastructures; consequently, new vulnerabilities are emerging. This situation is inevitably heading towards the collapse of this traditional SES. From an institutional viewpoint, some recommendations are offered to enhance the robustness of SES in order to mitigate the consequences of intruders."
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