Urban Ethnohydrology: Cultural Knowledge of Water Quality and Water Management in a Desert City

Gartin, Meredith; Crona, Beatrice; Wutich, Amber; Westerhoff, Paul

doi:10.5751/es-03808-150436

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“…We increasingly have been investing in a very traditional (and we think routinely underrated) anthropological approach-systematic cross-cultural comparison (Ember et al 2014 expanded to examine cross-cultural variation in local water knowledge and management across a myriad of global locations and through several theoretical lenses (e.g., Brewis et al 2013;Crona et al 2013;Gartin et al 2010;Vins et al 2014;Wutich et al 2012;Wutich, Brewis, Sigurdsson et al 2013). In one recent study, for example, we collaborated with geographers and political scientists to compare water management experiences for sites in four countries with high/low water scarcity and high/low economic development.…”

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Food, Water, and Scarcity

Wutich

Brewis²

2014

Current Anthropology

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Food, Water, and Scarcity

Wutich

Brewis²

2014

Current Anthropology

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“…Identifying these barriers led to the proposal for public involvement in a participatory process to assist the community to 'visualise' the groundwater systems, changes in groundwater levels over time, and to answer questions relating to increased water use in a variable environment by drawing on knowledge not readily accessible (Gartin et al, 2010). The complex hydrogeology and highly variable yields of the aquifer was difficult for community members to understand.…”

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Tools to enhance public participation and confidence in the development of the Howard East aquifer water plan, Northern Territory

Jackson

Tan

Nolan

2012

Journal of Hydrology

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“…However, evolving expert consensus on optimal conditions for early child development may not readily engender rapport with parent beliefs and related practices. Rather, comparison of knowledge held by scientists and local respondents routinely discovers a lack of agreement between them (Gartin et al, 2010). For instance, a study of perceived food value and preferences regarding appropriate young child (<2) feeding practices among working mothers in Mexico (Rodriguez-Oliveros et al, 2014) concluded that “Mothers’ perceptions and values may differ from those of nutritionists and program designers, and should be addressed when promoting opportune introduction of complementary foods in social programs” (Rodriguez-Oliveros et al, 2014, p. 144).…”

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When can parents most influence their child's development? Expert knowledge and perceived local realities

Worthman

Tomlinson

Rotheram‐Borus

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Compelling evidence for the long-term impact of conditions in gestation and early childhood on both physical and psychosocial functioning and productivity has stimulated a focus in global health policy and social services on the “first 1000 days”. Consequently, related initiatives may assume that rationale for this orientation and the agency of parents during this period is self-evident and widely shared among parents and communities. We tested this assumption in 2012 among a sample of 38 township-dwelling caregivers in Cape Town, by asking a question identified during a study of cultural models of parenting, namely: At what age or stage can a parent or caregiver have the most influence on a child’s development? Formal cultural consensus analysis of responses met criteria for strong agreement that the period for greatest impact of parenting on a child’s development occurs at adolescence, at a median age of 12 years. In follow-up focus groups and structured interviews, caregivers articulated clear ecological and developmental reasons for this view, related to protection both of developmental potential and against powerful, context-specific ecological risks (early pregnancy, substance ab/use, violence and gangs) that emerge during adolescence. Such risks threaten educational attainment, reproductive health, and social derailment with enduring consequences for lifetime well-being that caregivers are highly motivated to prevent. Developmental needs in pregnancy and early childhood, by contrast, were considered more manageable. These findings resonate with emerging evidence for multiple sensitive periods with corresponding developmental needs, and urge the value of complementing efforts to optimize early development with those to sustain and enhance it during later windows of developmental opportunity such as adolescence. Our results also indicate the need to consult local views of developmental risk and parenting practice in communicating with caregivers and planning interventions, and the value of using available methodological tools to do so.

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Urban Ethnohydrology: Cultural Knowledge of Water Quality and Water Management in a Desert City

Cited by 41 publications

References 43 publications

Food, Water, and Scarcity

Food, Water, and Scarcity

Tools to enhance public participation and confidence in the development of the Howard East aquifer water plan, Northern Territory

When can parents most influence their child's development? Expert knowledge and perceived local realities

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