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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Pool-Illsley, Emilia; Illsley, Catarina; del Pilar Morales, Maria; Marielle, Lucio Diaz; Alarcon, Javier; Chana, Felipe; Flores, Marco Antonio; Tlacotempa, Albino; Flores, Juana |
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Conference:
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Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons |
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Location:
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Cheltenham, England |
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Conf. Date:
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July 14-18, 2008 |
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Date:
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2008 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/687
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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Central America & Caribbean |
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Subject(s):
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water management
watersheds
institutions
regulation
participatory development
IASC
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Abstract:
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"This paper analyzes an experience in community-based watershed management, which involves 17 peasant communities of the Mexican dry tropics of the State of Guerrero. In these communities, where peasants are the owners and custodians of the ecosystems where water is produced, local institutions, regulations and organization forms, as well as local knowledge and practices, determine the access, use, conservation and veneration of water. The project considers this is the base upon which to build a new model for intervention, at community and regional levels, by which to improve local control, integrate new technologies and create an atmosphere for stimulating collective learning and technological/knowledge appropriation to guarantee enough water in the region for the present and the future.
"Into its sixth year, the experience has accumulated a large number of small water conservation projects implemented according to the plan each community has drawn out, through its Water Committee, in a participative land use planning and training process. A series of interviews with the members of these committees were carried out to assess their perception of the project, of the main results and impacts, problems and possibilities. This input is being used as the base for building both qualitative and quantitative indicators for measuring impacts from the local point of view. Also, to gain certain insight into the process of appropriation of the project by the communities and their institutions."
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