Christopher Schulz

Valuing water is gaining popularity among policymakers and academics as a new water management paradigm. However, there is a lack of clarity about how to translate this paradigm into practice. We propose a multifaceted approach to valuing water that considers not just the values that people assign to water, such as its uses and benefits, but also broader personal guiding principles (e.g., security) and governance-related values (e.g., social justice) that underpin decision-making about water. Using an interdisciplinary conceptual framework and data from a global survey among water professionals (N = 293), we provide the first empirical evidence showing how preferences among three archetypical perspectives on water management – (1) controlling water flows through engineering solutions; (2) managing water through market-based mechanisms; (3) working with natural water ecosystems – can be explained …

Donde habitan los neba es un libro que recoge los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas durante casi una década en los territorios de varias comunidades urarinas asentadas en el río Chambira y en uno de sus auentes, el río Tigrillo, en pleno corazón de uno de los complejos de humedales más importantes del planeta, el Abanico del Pastaza. Representa el trabajo multi e interdisciplinario y colaborativo llevado a cabo entre las comunidades, las federaciones locales (FEPIURCHA y FEIURCHA), la Universidad de St Andrews en el Reino Unido y el Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana - IIAP. La información contenida en su interior amplía el conocimiento existente sobre este importante paisaje biocultural de nuestra Amazonía, mostrando la riqueza cultural y ecológica de los territorios urarinas y desvelando el vínculo todavía existente entre naturaleza y cultura en toda la cuenca. Un viaje …

The oil and gas industry has a long history of operating in peat-forming regions in the tropics, but the extent to which peatland ecosystems are vulnerable to those operations is not well understood. This knowledge gap is concerning given the continuing drive to explore peatland areas for hydrocarbons. Here we present an analysis of the exposure of tropical peatlands to the oil and gas industry and review what is known of the peatlands' sensitivity to that exposure. We show that across the tropics, oil and gas infrastructure is more concentrated in peat-forming regions than we would expect by chance alone, which we suggest is likely due to the persistence over geological timescales of basins which can be suitable both for forming oil and gas source rocks, and for encouraging the poorly-drained conditions that support peat accumulation. Focusing on a case study from Peru, we discuss the extent to which peatlands …

L. os humedales y turberas son ecosistemas altamente productivos. que cumplen un rol importante en la regulación hidrológica y el almacenamiento del carbono a nivel global (Junk et al., 2013). En las turberas se almacena hasta un tercio del carbono en los suelos a nivel mundial y estos ecosistemas cubren solo el 3-4% de la superficie del planeta (UNEP, 2022). Estos ecosistemas albergan también una diversidad única de especies adaptadas a suelos temporal o permanentemente inundados, incluyendo especies endémicas, y proveen de alimentos y servicios culturales y espirituales a las comunidades locales. Por lo tanto, mantener la integridad de estos ecosistemas es importante para la regulación del clima global y la sostenibilidad de los medios de vida.

Recent discussion of global environmental assessment processes suggests that the process of consensus creation is central to understanding the way knowledge is produced and conclusions are reached. Here we contribute to this literature by providing a case study of the World Commission on Dams, which brought together supporters and opponents of large dams, at the height of controversy about dams in the 1990s. The Commission reviewed evidence and formulated guidelines for best practice, finding a way through a political stalemate. The article draws on interviews with those involved in the Commission and discusses the historical context, form of stakeholder representation, time horizon, and leadership style as consensus-enabling conditions. We conclude that an ambitious consensual process was successful within the life of the Commission, but at the cost of carrying external actors with it, leading …

No one is against good water governance. In fact, with economically viable supply-side options decreasing and demand management tools not always delivering desired results, water governance has emerged as perhaps the most important topic in the international water community in the twenty-first century (Rogers and Hall, 2003; UNDP, 2004; UNESCO, 2006). The 2001 Bonn International Conference on Freshwater, a precursor to the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (Bonn, 2001), identified water governance as the first of three areas of priority action. The second World Water Development report (UNESCO, 2006) highlighted the central role of water governance in improving water resource conditions and boldly stated that “the world water crisis is a crisis of governance—not one of scarcity.” The World Bank has also recognized the importance of key governance tenets, such as …

Lo primero que llama la atención cuando visitamos por primera vez una comunidad del pueblo urarina, es la omnipresencia del telar de cintura, una tecnología prehispánica que se remonta miles de años atrás en el tiempo. Algunos autores señalan la gran influencia que las culturas asentadas en la costa del Perú tuvieron en la difusión suramericana de esta tecnología (ONeale, 1946; Abboud, 1975), afirmación que cobra peso si tenemos en cuenta el hecho de que algunos de los telares de cintura más antiguos de América del Sur fueron recuperados en sitios arqueológicos muy cercanos a la costa peruana, lo que además abre la posibilidad de que el litoral peruano sea uno de los centros de origen de la tecnología del telar de cintura, pero no el único. El telar de cintura, por lo general, se asocia en el Perú con las culturas andinas y costeñas, pero también ha sido ampliamente utilizado por pueblos amazónicos como el urarina, awajun, shipibo, wampis, ashaninka, matsiguenka, cashinahua, yine, shawi y otros. Algunos de estos pueblos adoptaron la tecnología directamente de los pueblos andinos o costeños con los que mantuvieron habituales dinámicas de intercambio y es probable

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