Vulnerability of Andean Communities to Climate Variability and Climate Change

Diaz, Harry; Garay-Fluhmann, Rosa; McDowell, Julia Z.; Montaña, Elma; Reyes, Bernardo; Salas, Sonia

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22266-5_13

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“…Additionally, institutional actors were interviewed, including government officials and representatives from aid organizations, to provide a perspective on available institutional assets for adaptation, though most were not accessible to Palca's farmers. While we focus on farmers' experiences in our analysis here, institutional factors are discussed in greater detail elsewhere (Diaz et al, 2011).…”

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Accessing adaptation: Multiple stressors on livelihoods in the Bolivian highlands under a changing climate

McDowell

Hess

2012

Global Environmental Change

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Accessing adaptation: Multiple stressors on livelihoods in the Bolivian highlands under a changing climate

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Hess

2012

Global Environmental Change

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“…The first project was an SSHRC (Social Science Research Council of Canada) funded collaborative project between Canadian and Chilean researchers focused on institutional adaptations to climate change in the context of semiarid watersheds (see Diaz et al 2009;Cepeda et al 2009;Fiebig-Wittmaack et al 2009). The second project-a comparative two-year interdisciplinary effort funded by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) 1 -sought to identify and characterize the vulnerabilities of rural actors to climate variability and climate-induced water problems in the basins of the Mendoza, Choquecota, and Elqui rivers (see Salas et al 2012;McDowell and Hess 2012;Diaz et al 2012;Montan ˜a 2008). The last project, carried out by Dr. Montan ˜a with funding from CLACSO-CROP (Comparative Research on Poverty program, supported by the ISSC and the University of Bergen), was focused on the links between poverty and climate vulnerability in the three study areas (Montan ˜a 2012(Montan ˜a , 2013.…”

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“…It refers to the patterns by which public power is exercised in a given context (Jenkins 2002), and accordingly, it is an expression of a style of development. Relevant to our research approach, water governance is a key component of the rural agricultural producer case studies and important for reducing vulnerability of rural agricultural producers and their communities (Diaz et al 2012). Water governance assumes a diversity of forms, ranging from a highly centralized system to one that encompasses a diversity of public and non-public organizations (Hurlbert et al 2009a, b).…”

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Development, local livelihoods, and vulnerabilities to global environmental change in the South American Dry Andes

2015

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Climate change will increasingly impact large areas of South America, affecting important natural resources and people's livelihoods. These impacts will make rural people disproportionately more vulnerable, given their dependency on ecosystem services and their exposure to other stressors, such as new rules imposed by agribusiness and trends toward the commodification of natural resources. This paper focuses on the vulnerability of rural communities in Andean drylands of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile, showing how different economic and political pathways lead to different levels of vulnerability. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the methodological and theoretical concept of vulnerability, which framed the research. Starting from the premise that global environmental change impacts are strongly linked to styles of development, the discussion explores the diverse institutional capital and governance schemes as well as different development styles in the case studies and their role in increasing or reducing local vulnerability to climate and water scarcity. Using a comparative perspective, the exposures and adaptive capacities of rural actors in three river basins are discussed, emphasizing situations that speak for the ways in which development styles counteract or magnify conditions of vulnerability. The analysis considers irrigated and non-irrigated agriculture, water property interests, different productive structures (viticulture, horticulture, etc.), producer typologies (large/small, export, etc.), and geographical location. Finally, the paper offers some insights about development style and adaptive capacities of rural people to overcome those vulnerabilities.

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Dimensions of Adaptive Water Governance and Drought in Argentina and Canada

Hurlbert¹,

Montaña²

2015

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Climate change in many local and regional scales is expected to include climate hazards and extreme conditions including hailstorms, droughts, floods, hurricanes, hail, tornadoes and storms. Droughts are serious climate hazards threatening water supply for human consumption and also agricultural production and are anticipated to increase in intensity and duration in both Mendoza, Argentina and southern Alberta, Canada.Both Mendoza and Alberta have irrigated agriculture and their rivers are fed primarily by snowmelt and rainfall runoff from mountainous headwaters. Many similarities exist between water law and governance in the Mendoza river basin, Argentina and the Oldman river basin in southern Alberta, Canada. However, many differences also exist. Can these governance systems ensure the continuation of agricultural production in the area into the future given increased development and climate change?Utilizing the institutional design principles of adaptive capacity and water governance, this paper will compare and contrast the water governance institutional structures in the two study areas. Data was obtained from two multi-disciplinary studies of institutional adaptation to climate change studying vulnerability of local agricultural producers and communities to climate change, and the interplay of water governance structures, and adaptive capacities. The water governance systems of both countries show concerns relating to gaps in information and equitable outcomes; in addition there are concerns of a lack of capacity to enable reflexivity. Both systems have been responsive (although there is room for improvement). Through strengthening these identified weaknesses these systems can continue to be resilient into the future.

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Vulnerability of Andean Communities to Climate Variability and Climate Change

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Accessing adaptation: Multiple stressors on livelihoods in the Bolivian highlands under a changing climate

Accessing adaptation: Multiple stressors on livelihoods in the Bolivian highlands under a changing climate

Development, local livelihoods, and vulnerabilities to global environmental change in the South American Dry Andes

Dimensions of Adaptive Water Governance and Drought in Argentina and Canada

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