Water laws in the Andes: A promising precedent for challenging neoliberalism

Roa-García, María Cecilia; Crovetto, Patricia Urteaga; Bustamante-Zenteno, Rocío

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.12.002

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“…21,22 Globally, there is now a number of cases where legal processes have stepped beyond heritage recognition to seek to acknowledge the relational values and ontologies of Indigenous communities by conferring rivers as subjects of rights. 84,85 The approach reported here could potentially contribute to management of rivers that are legally recognized as an agent with a life-giving force and personality.…”

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Conceptualizing Hydro-socio-ecological Relationships to Enable More Integrated and Inclusive Water Allocation Planning

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“…The 2008 Constitution of Ecuador is seen by many as one of the most progressive constitutions worldwide in terms of water (Harris & Roa-García, 2013;Hoogesteger, 2015a;Roa-García, Urteaga Crovetto, & Bustamante Zenteno, 2013). Its content reflects the remarkable political agency that the peasant and indigenous-based water users movement of Ecuador developed in the mid-2000s in opposition to a state that tries to control water in its territory through various legal and institutional arrangements.…”

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Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands

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Boelens

Baud

2016

Water International

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Ecuadorian state policies and institutional reforms have territorialized water since the 1960s. Peasant and indigenous communities have challenged this ordering locally since the 1990s by creating multi-scalar federations and networks. These enable marginalized water users to defend their water, autonomy and voice at broader scales. Analysis of these processes shows that water governance takes shape in contexts of territorial pluralism centred on the interplay of divergent interests in defining, constructing and representing hydrosocial territory. Here, state and nonstate hydro-social territories refer to interlinked scales that contest and recreate each other and through which actors advance their water control interests. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…It included Voluntas (2016) 27:166-186 167 a large number of progressive articles related to water and its management, of which the most celebrated ones are the recognition of the human right to water, the prohibition of all form of water privatization, citizens participation in water governance and the recognition of 'nature's' water rights (Harris and Roa-García 2013;Roa-García et al 2013). Such a 'wet' Constitution resulted, for a great part, from the prolonged and steady presence and involvement in the national political arena of the third sector represented by committed individuals, NGOs and social movement organizations with visions of a better, more just and sustainable society (Andolina et al 2009;Hoogesteger 2014;Jameson 2011).…”

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NGOs and the Democratization of Ecuadorian Water Governance: Insights from the Multi-Stakeholder Platform el Foro de los Recursos Hídricos

Hoogesteger

2015

Voluntas

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NGOs have taken up an increasing number of roles and responsibilities in Latin American societies. Based on a study of the multi-stakeholder platform, the Water Resources Forum in Ecuador, this paper shows how through the creation of a broad network of NGOs, academics, grassroots water users organizations and governmental actors; this platform has been able to contribute to the democratization of water governance. This paper analyses the international and national sociopolitical context in which this platform developed and traces the history and strategies that marked its development. Based on this, it argues that NGOs can play an important role in the development of more democratic and inclusive public policy making in water governance, but that the capacity of NGOs to bring about change greatly depends on the socio-political context and on the networks they are able to forge with grassroots organizations, state agencies, funders and other third sector actors.Résumé Les ONG endossent un nombre croissant de rôles et de responsabilités dans les sociétés latino-américaines. S'appuyant sur une étude de la plateforme multipartite du Forum des ressources en eau en É quateur, cet article montre comment grâce à la création d'un vaste réseau d'ONG, d'universitaires, d'organisations populaires d'utilisateurs d'eau et d'acteurs gouvernementaux, cette plateforme peut contribuer à démocratiser la gouvernance de l'eau. Cet article analyse le contexte sociopolitique national et international dans lequel cette plateforme s'est dével-oppée et retrace l'histoire et les stratégies qui ont marqué son développement. S'appuyant sur cette analyse, il fait valoir que les ONG peuvent jouer un rôle important dans l'élaboration de politiques publiques plus démocratiques et plus inclusives dans la gouvernance de l'eau, mais que leur capacité à apporter des Resumen Las ONG han asumido un creciente número de papeles y responsabilidades en las sociedades latinoamericanas. Basándose en un estudio de la plataforma multi-actores el Foro de los Recursos Hídricos en Ecuador, el presente documento muestra cómo, mediante la creación de un amplia red de ONG, académicos, organizaciones de base usuarias de agua y actores gubernamentales, esta pltaforma ha podido contribuir a la democratización de la gobernanza del agua. El presente documento analiza el contexto sociopolítico nacional e internacional en el que se desarrolló esta plataforma y presenta la historia y estrategias que marcaron su desarrollo. Basándose en esto, argumenta que las ONG pueden desempeñar un importante papel en el desarrollo de políticas públicas más democráticas e inclusivas en la gobernanza del agua pero que la capacidad de las ONG para generar cambios depende en gran medida del contexto sociopolítico y de las redes que puedan forjar con organizaciones de base, agencias estatales, financiadores y otros actores del sector terciario.

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Water laws in the Andes: A promising precedent for challenging neoliberalism

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

Conceptualizing Hydro-socio-ecological Relationships to Enable More Integrated and Inclusive Water Allocation Planning

Conceptualizing Hydro-socio-ecological Relationships to Enable More Integrated and Inclusive Water Allocation Planning

Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands

NGOs and the Democratization of Ecuadorian Water Governance: Insights from the Multi-Stakeholder Platform el Foro de los Recursos Hídricos

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