Community water management. Is it still possible? Anthropological perspectives

Anuário Antropológico

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Editor Chefe: Kelly Silva
Início Publicação: 30/06/1976
Periodicidade: Quadrimestral
Área de Estudo: Antropologia

Community water management. Is it still possible? Anthropological perspectives

Ano: 2011 | Volume: Especial | Número: 2
Autores: Toufik Ftaïta
Autor Correspondente: A. S. Lobo | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: oasis, irrigation, social management of water, local communities, water users associations, Morocco

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Resumo Inglês:

The social management of irrigation has emerged from local experiments where the social, religious, and political history of the communities involved is a determining factor for the understanding of
the various methods of social and technical management of water and other natural resources. For this reason, oasis knowledge and expertise constitute an important material and immaterial heritage that has contributed to the establishment of several models for the collective management of water access, appropriation, and distribution. Nevertheless, far from living in a perpetual ethnographic present, local oasis communities are going through many transformations the consequences of which are already felt. This article describes, from an anthropological perspective, the models of oasis irrigation management, emphasizing their advantages in the context of the current institutional innovations in the
field of participatory management of irrigation areas, biodiversity safeguards, climatic change, and effective water governance.