Doctoral Dissertation Research: Adaptation in Watershed Management Among Andean Rural Communities

博士论文研究：安第斯农村社区流域管理的适应

• 批准号: 0926584
• 负责人: David Lopez-Carr
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0926584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Adaptation; Watershed

In the Andean region of South America, understanding how communities organize and cooperate is particularly important for water management as many rural communities receive minimal government support and the communities themselves must decide if and how they will protect their watersheds and distribute their water. Despite research on the factors that facilitate collective action in resource management, there is limited knowledge on the specific conditions that enable local communities to adapt to uncertain changing conditions such as land-use changes and climate change. Ph.D. student Felipe Murtinho under the supervision of his doctoral advisor Dr. David Carr at the University of California Santa Barbara will explore the factors that determine whether local water user associations in the Fúquene watershed in Colombia take measures to manage their micro-watershed in order to adapt to the degradation of their water resources. Fúquene is an ideal place to examine how local communities adapt to water degradation because in most communities access to safe drinking water depends on the management decisions of the user associations. In addition, this region faces uncertain water conditions due to land-use changes and climate variability. Specifically, this research will address the two following questions: what conditions either facilitate or impede a water user associations' initiatives to adapt to changing micro-watershed conditions?, and if a water use association undertakes an initiative, what specifically do they do, and why do they choose certain adaptation strategies over others? The proposed research uses quantitative and qualitative methods including in-depth interviews to key informants and multi-level statistical models with information from water user associations and households? surveys, meteorological data, municipal socio-economic information and land-use/land cover maps. The project results will provide explanations about how and why different characteristics at three different scales (households, the associations, and the broader governing context) impact the decision of the associations to adapt to changes in water conditions. This study explores resource management and collective action when local communities face environmental changes. The results will contribute to the literature on adaptation to environmental change by identifying key factors that determine how, and under what conditions water user associations adapt to changes in water sources degradation. The research focuses particularly on identifying at what scale adaptation processes are triggered: do adaptation initiatives depend on households/associations characteristics? Or, is support from local governmental agencies or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) a determining factor in associations' decisions to adapt? Answers to these questions have important policy implications as they may provide insights of how and where government agencies and NGOs could allocate scarce resources to increase the capacity of local communities to adapt to changing environmental conditions such as climate change.

在南美安第斯山脉地区，了解社区如何组织和教练对于水管理尤其重要，因为许多农村社区获得了最小的政府支持，社区本身必须决定是否以及如何保护他们的分水岭并分配水。尽管研究了促进资源管理中集体行动的因素，但对特定条件的知识有限，这些条件使当地社区能够适应不确定的变化条件，例如土地利用变化和气候变化。博士在加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉分校的博士顾问David Carr博士的监督下，学生Felipe Murtinho将探索哥伦比亚Fúquene流域的当地用水用户协会是否采取措施来管理其微型掌握的措施，以适应其水资源的降级。适应水退化，因为在大多数社区中，获得安全饮用水的机会取决于用户协会的管理决策。此外，由于土地利用变化和气候变化，该地区面临不确定的水状况。具体来说，这项研究将解决以下两个问题：哪些条件有助于或阻碍用水量协会适应不断变化的微波处理条件的计划？拟议的研究使用定量和定性方法，包括对关键信息和多级统计模型的深入访谈，以及来自用水用户协会和家庭的信息？调查，气象数据，市政社会经济信息以及土地使用/土地覆盖地图。该项目结果将提供有关如何以及为什么在三种不同量表（家庭，协会和更广泛的管理环境）下的不同特征以及为什么会影响协会决定适应水条件变化的决定的解释。这项研究探讨了当地社区面临环境变化时的资源管理和集体行动。结果将通过确定确定如何以及在什么条件下供水源降解的变化的关键因素来促进有关适应环境变化的文献。该研究特别着重于确定触发哪些规模适应过程：适应计划是否取决于家庭/关联特征？或者，地方政府机构或非政府组织（NGOS）的支持是协会决定适应的决定因素吗？这些问题的答案具有重要的政策影响，因为它们可能会提供有关政府机构和非政府组织如何分配稀缺资源以提高当地社区适应不断变化的环境状况（例如气候变化）的能力的见解。