Water governance in Chile: Availability, management and climate change

Valdés-Pineda, Rodrigo; Pizarro, Roberto; García‐Chevesich, Pablo; Valdés, Juan B.; Olivares, Claudio; Vera, Mauricio; Balocchi, Francisco; Pérez, Felipe; Vallejos, Carlos; Fuentes, Roberto; Abarza, Alejandro; Helwig, Bridget

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.016

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“…Moreover, local management problems interferes with the allocation of water on a global scale, although it is difficult to solve the conflicts of shared tributaries, and the allocation of water sources [46]. According to Valdés-Pineda et al [47], collective management recompenses the efficiency of public policies. This proposal try to relieve the pressure on water demand in local scenarios.…”

Section: Water Governancementioning

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Water Management: Collective Organization, Local Demands and Water Avalilability. A Review

2017

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Water Management: Collective Organization, Local Demands and Water Avalilability. A Review

2017

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“…The four cases were selected based on several factors: diversity of geographical and nation state characteristics (north/south, developing/developed), similar recent and projected exposures to d&f linked to climate change Valdez-Pineda et al 2014;Vicuña et al 2011), significant irrigated agriculture, and markedly different governance structures. The research sites are river basins in western Canada (Oldman River, Alberta, and Swift Current Creek, Saskatchewan), Chile (Elqui River Basin), and Argentina (Mendoza River).…”

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The adaptive capacity of institutions in Canada, Argentina, and Chile to droughts and floods

Hurlbert

Gupta

2016

Reg Environ Change

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The increasing evidence of global warming calls on all states to enhance their adaptive capacity to deal with climate change. This paper compares the adaptive capacity of two Canadian provinces, the province of Mendoza, Argentina and the administrative region of Coquimbo, Chile in relation to the vulnerability of farmers to droughts and floods by applying the adaptive capacity wheel (ACW). It concludes that Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada are particularly weak in terms of double-and triple-loop learning and in developing adaptive capacity in an equitable manner, probably attributable to strong climate scepticism in society and the weak economy. In the developing countries of Chile and Argentina, resources to assist with adaptation are often lacking; in Coquimbo, future learning is precarious because of information deficits in relation to data, memory, trust, and responsiveness; in Mendoza, institutions lack variety (redundancy of programs), resources, and governance processes are inadequately responsive. The paper makes contributions at the regional level by recommending that specific institutional weaknesses and lack of responsiveness be remedied by adopting appropriate missing instruments (perhaps, for example, water transfer provisions in Mendoza). New findings are made in relation to the dimensions of fair governance and learning capacity in the ACW. While learning capacity was closely linked to the dimension of leadership, the deficit of equity was closely linked to other indicators of fair governance (legitimacy, responsiveness, and accountability).

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“…The Copiapó valley can be divided in three main areas: the lower area, characterized by flat areas where olive and vineyards account for 76% of the agriculture zone; the middle area, where mining activities and vineyards are located; and the high mountain area of the valley, which is mainly used for mining activities, pastures, and tourism. In the last years, the Copiapó river has suffered from a strong water demand, which affected the groundwater storage [25]. This situation generates a sensible scenario concerning the future water scarcity and local efforts need to be focused into the development of new technologies that target water use efficiency.…”

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The LAB-Net Soil Moisture Network: Application to Thermal Remote Sensing and Surface Energy Balance

Mattar

Santamaría-Artigas

Durán‐Alarcón

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A set of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) have been defined to be monitored by current and new remote sensing missions. The ECV retrieved at global scale need to be validated in order to provide reliable products to be used in remote sensing applications. For this, test sites are required to use in calibration and validation of the remote sensing approaches in order to improve the ECV retrievals at global scale. The southern hemisphere presents scarce test sites for calibration and validation field campaigns that focus on soil moisture and land surface temperature retrievals. In Chile, remote sensing applications related to soil moisture estimates have increased during the last decades because of the drought and water use conflicts that generate a strong interest on improved water demand estimates. This work describes the Laboratory for Analysis of the Biosphere (LAB)-NETwork, called herein after 'LAB-net', which was designed to be the first network in Chile for remote sensing applications. The test sites were placed in four sites with different cover types: vineyards and olive orchards located in the semi-arid region of Atacama, an irrigated raspberry crop in the Mediterranean climate zone of Chimbarongo, and a rainfed pasture in the south of Chile. Over each site, well implemented meteorological and radiative flux instrumentation was installed and continuously recorded the following parameters: soil moisture and temperature at two ground levels (10 and 20 cm), air temperature and relative humidity, net radiation, global radiation, radiometric temperature (8-14 µm), rainfall and soil heat flux. The LAB-net data base post-processing procedure is also described here. As an application, surface remote sensing products such as soil moisture data derived from the Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) extracted from the MODIS-MOD11A1 and GOES LST from Copernicus products were compared to in situ data in Oromo LAB-net site. Moreover, land surface energy flux estimation is also shown as an application of LAB-net data base. These applications revealed a good performance between in situ and remote sensing data. LAB-net data base also contributes to provide suitable information for land surface energy budget and therefore water resources management at cultivars scale. The data based generated by LAB-net is freely available for any research or scientific purpose related to current and future remote sensing applications.

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Water governance in Chile: Availability, management and climate change

Cited by 175 publications

References 49 publications

Water Management: Collective Organization, Local Demands and Water Avalilability. A Review

Water Management: Collective Organization, Local Demands and Water Avalilability. A Review

The adaptive capacity of institutions in Canada, Argentina, and Chile to droughts and floods

The LAB-Net Soil Moisture Network: Application to Thermal Remote Sensing and Surface Energy Balance

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