This paper examines the development of export-oriented agriculture and the allocation of water resources for irrigation in La Ligua river basin in Chile�s Norte Chico. The paper uses a theoretical framework within the political ecology tradition in order to approach questions of demand, evaluation and allocation of water resources, and related issues, and to show how they are shaped by social power relations. The paper highlights in particular how a hydrological assessment was used to respond to rapid and uncontrolled groundwater exploitation, which ultimately produced unequal outcomes among different farmers. The paper concludes that, to better understand issues around the allocation of water resources, the concept of the hydrosocial cycle...
abstract: This research investigates the dialectical relationships between water and social power. I...
This thesis researches the power dynamics related to the intrinsic relationship between the expansio...
In this paper, we raise the need to consider water as a social asset and not only as a production fa...
This paper examines the development of export-oriented agriculture and the allocation of water resou...
This chapter examines a conflict over water resources for irrigation in a rapidly developing agricul...
Since the 1990s, international water sector reforms have centred heavily on economic and market appr...
After three decades of neoliberal policies, there are growing concerns in Chile about how nature is ...
This paper critically explores the politics that mediate the use of environmental science assessment...
ABSTRACT : The current article examines the social origins of water scarcity in Rio Bueno basin, Chi...
This paper addresses the relationship between water distribution and governance as elements that all...
Building upon the contribution of the Latin-American Political Ecology and Critical Geography, we hi...
We inquire the socio-ecological transformations that the agribusiness generates in the territorial d...
The agro-export boom in the coastal region of Ica has caused two interrelated processes: the generat...
Environmental history is understood here as an invitation to observe in nature indications of the so...
This article offers an approach to the concept of hydro-social cycle from the perspective of the pol...
abstract: This research investigates the dialectical relationships between water and social power. I...
This thesis researches the power dynamics related to the intrinsic relationship between the expansio...
In this paper, we raise the need to consider water as a social asset and not only as a production fa...
This paper examines the development of export-oriented agriculture and the allocation of water resou...
This chapter examines a conflict over water resources for irrigation in a rapidly developing agricul...
Since the 1990s, international water sector reforms have centred heavily on economic and market appr...
After three decades of neoliberal policies, there are growing concerns in Chile about how nature is ...
This paper critically explores the politics that mediate the use of environmental science assessment...
ABSTRACT : The current article examines the social origins of water scarcity in Rio Bueno basin, Chi...
This paper addresses the relationship between water distribution and governance as elements that all...
Building upon the contribution of the Latin-American Political Ecology and Critical Geography, we hi...
We inquire the socio-ecological transformations that the agribusiness generates in the territorial d...
The agro-export boom in the coastal region of Ica has caused two interrelated processes: the generat...
Environmental history is understood here as an invitation to observe in nature indications of the so...
This article offers an approach to the concept of hydro-social cycle from the perspective of the pol...
abstract: This research investigates the dialectical relationships between water and social power. I...
This thesis researches the power dynamics related to the intrinsic relationship between the expansio...
In this paper, we raise the need to consider water as a social asset and not only as a production fa...