Democratizing water governance from the grassroots: The development of interjuntas-chimborazo in the ecuadorian andes

Human Organization

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-86

  Hoogesteger, Jaime ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Andes; Democracy; Ecuador; NGOs; Water governance; Water user federations

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRATIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; LOBBYING; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; STAKEHOLDER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER USE;

ANDES; ECUADOR;

EID: 84860000787     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.71.1.b8v77j0321u28863     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Achterhuis Hans, Rutgerd Boelens, and Margreet Zwarteveen 2010 Water Property Relations and Modern Policy Regimes: Neoliberal Utopia and the Disempowerment of Collective Action. In Out of the Mainstream. Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, and Armando Guevara, eds. Pp. 27-55. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
2. Bebbington, Anthony 1993 Sustainable Livelihood Development in the Andes? Local Institutions and Regional Resource Use in Ecuador. Development Policy Review 11(1):5-30.
3. 1997 Social Capital and Rural Intensification: Local Organizations and Islands of Sustainability in the Rural Andes. Geographical Journal 163(2):189-197.
4. 2000 Reencountering Development: Livelihood Transitions and Place Transformations in the Andes. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90(3):495-520.
5. 2004 NGOs and Uneven Development: Geographies of Development Intervention. Progress in Human Geography 28(6):725-745.
6. Bebbington, Anthony, Ricardo Abramovay, and Manuel Chiriboga 2008 Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Territorial Development in Latin America. World Development 37(12):2874-2887.
7. Bebbington, Anthony, Denise Humphreys, and Jeffery Bury 2010 Federating and Defending: Water, Territory, and Extraction in the Andes. In Out of the Mainstream. Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, and Armando Guevara, eds. Pp. 307-328. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
8. Berry, Kate A., and Erik Mollard 2010 Introduction: Social Participation in Water Governance and Management. In Social Participation in Water Governance and Management: Critical and Global Perspectives. Kate A. Berry and Erik Mollard, eds. Pp. xx-xxviii. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
9. Boelens, Rutgerd 2008a The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules. Ph.D. thesis, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
10. 2008b Water Rights Arenas in the Andes: Networks to Strengthen Local Water Control. Water Alternatives 1(1):48-65.
11. 2009 The Politics of Disciplining Water Rights. Development and Change 40(2):307-331.
12. Boelens, Rutgerd, Rocío Bustamante, and Thomas Perreault 2010 Networking Strategies and Struggles for Water Control: From Water Wars to Mobilizations for Day-to-Day Water Rights Defence. In Out of the Mainstream. Rutgerd Boelens, David Getches, and Armando Guevara, eds. Pp. 281-305. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
13. Boelens R., L. Cremers, M. Ooijevaar 2003 Local Rights, Water Policy, and Irrigation Sector Reform in Ecuador. Water Law and Indigenous Rights Studies Vol. 3. Wageningen, The Netherlands: Wageningen University.
14. Boelens, Rutgerd, and Bernita Doornbos 2001 The Battlefield of Water Rights: Rule Making Amidst Conflicting Normative Frameworks in the Ecuadorian Highlands. Human Organization 60(4):343-355. (Pubitemid 34082376)
15. Boelens, Rutgerd, Axel Dourojeanni, Alfredo Durán, and Paul Hoogendam 2002 Water Rights and Watersheds. Managing Multiple Water Uses and Strengthening Stakeholder Platforms. In Water Rights and Empowerment. Rutgerd Boelens and Paul Hoogendam, eds. Pp. 110-142. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum.
16. Boelens, Rutgerd, and Paul Hoogendam, eds. 2002 Water Rights and Empowerment. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum.
17. Boelens, Rutgerd, and Rosario Parra 2009 Aguas Rebeldes. Imágenes de la lucha por el agua y la justicia en los Andes. Quito, Ecuador: IMPREFEPP.
18. Boelens, Rutgerd, and Margreet Zwarteveen 2005 Prices and Politics in Andean Water Reforms. Development and Change 36(4):735-758. (Pubitemid 41711587)
19. Bruns, Bryan R., Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Claudia Ringler, eds. 2005 Water Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional Design. Washington D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute.
20. Cleaver, Frances 1999 Paradoxes of Participation: Questioning Participatory Approaches to Development. Journal of International Development 11(4):597-612. (Pubitemid 29445530)
21. Cremers, Leontien, Marjolein Ooijevaar, and Rutgerd Boelens 2005 Institutional Reform in the Andean Irrigation Sector: Enabling Policies for Strengthening Local Rights and Water Management. Natural Resources Forum 29(1):37-50. (Pubitemid 40472799)
22. Dagniano, Evelina, Alberto J. Olvera, and Aldo Panfichi 2006 Introducción: Para otra lectura de la disputa por la construcción democrática de América Latina. In La disputa por la construcción democrática en America Latina. Evelina Dagniano, Alberto J. Olvera, and Aldo Panfichi, eds. Pp.15-99 . Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
23. Dávila, Gloria, and Hugo Olazával 2006 De la Mediación a la Mobilización Social: Análisis de Algunos Conflictos por el Agua en Chimborazo. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala.
24. Dryzek, John S. 2005 Deliberative Democracy in Divided Societies: Alternatives to Agonism and Analgesia. Political Theory 33(2):218-242. (Pubitemid 40472640)
25. Fox, Jonathan 1996 How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural Mexico. World Development 24(6):1089-1103.
26. Gerbrandy, Gerben, and Paul Hoogendam 2002 Materializing Rights: Hydraulic Property in the Extension and Rehabilitation of Two Irrigation Systems in Bolivia. In Water Rights and Empowerment. Rutgerd Boelens and Paul Hoogendam, eds. Pp.36-51. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum.
27. Global Water Partnership (GWP) 2000 Integrated Water Resources Management. TAC Background Papers No. 4. Stockholm, Sweden: Global Water Partnership.
28. Hendriks, Jan 2002 Water Rights and Strengthening Users' Organizations: The Art of Negotiating. Challenges for Institutions Assisting Community Irrigation in the Andes. In: Water Rights and Empowerment. Rutgerd Boelens and Paul Hoogendam, eds. Pp. 52-73. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum.
29. Interjuntas-Chimborazo 1999 Memoria Taller "Análisis de la Problemática de los sistemas de riego grandes y pequeños de la provincia de Chimborazo e identificación de actores y temas communes." Riobamba, Ecuador: Interjuntas-Chimborazo.
30. 2000 Memoria Taller 4-5 de Agosto, Licto. Riobamba, Ecuador: Interjuntas-Chimborazo.
31. 2004 Documento Estratégico 2002-2004. Riobamba, Ecuador: Interjuntas-Chimborazo.
32. Laurie, Nina, Robert Andolina, and Sarah Radcliffe 2005 Ethnodevelopment: Social Movements, Creating Experts, and Professionalising Indigenous Knowledge in Ecuador. Antipode 37(3):471-496.
33. McKinnon, Katharine 2007 Postdevelopment, Professionalism, and the Politics of Participation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4):772-785.
34. Merrey, Douglas, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Peter P. Mollinga, Eiman Karar, Walter Huppert, Judith Rees, Juana Vera, Kai Wegerich, and Pieter van der Zaag 2007 Policy and Institutional Reform: The Art of the Possible. In Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. David Molden, ed. Pp. 193-231. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
35. Molle, François 2008 Nirvana Concepts, Narratives and Policy Models: Insights from the Water Sector. Water Alternatives 1(1): 131-156.
36. Molle, François, Tina Foran, and Mira Käkönen, eds. 2009 Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods, and Governance. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.
37. Molle, François, Jean-Philippe Venot, Mats Lannerstad, and Jaime Hoogesteger 2010 Villains or Heroes? Farmers' Adjustments to Water Scarcity. Irrigation and Drainage 59(4):419-431.
38. Mollinga, Peter P. 2008 Water, Politics, and Development: Framing a Political Sociology of Water Resources Management. Water Alternatives 1(1):7-23.
39. Mollinga, Peter P., and Alex Bolding, eds. 2004 The Politics of Irrigation Reform: Contested Policy Formulation and Implementation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
40. Perreault, Thomas 2003a Changing Places: Transnational Networks, Ethnic Politics, and Community Development in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Political Geography 22(1):61-88. (Pubitemid 36230403)
41. 2003b Social Capital, Development, and Indigenous Politics in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Geographical Review 93(3):328-349.
42. 2007 De la 'guerra del agua' a la 'guerra del gas': Gobernabilidad de recursos, neoliberalismo y protesta popular en Bolivia. In Después de las Guerras del Agua. Carlos Crespo and Susan Spronk, eds. Pp. 147-182. La Paz, Bolivia: Plural Editores.
43. Petras, James, and Henry Veltmeyer 2005 Movimientos Sociales y Poder Social: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador. Mexico City, Mexico: Editorial Lumen.
44. Rap, Edwin 2006 The Success of a Policy Model: Irrigation Management Transfer in Mexico. Journal of Development Studies 42(8):1301-1324. (Pubitemid 44768887)
45. Recald, Christine 2007 Las políticas del agua a través de la historia en el Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador: Sistema de Investigacion sobre la Problematica Agraria en el Ecuador.
46. 2009 Entre partage et exclusion: Les politiques de l'eau en Équateur depuis trente ans-L'exemple de Píllaro (Tungurahua). Ph.D. thesis, Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale, France.
47. Republic of Ecuador 2008 Constitution de la República del Ecuador. Quito: Government of Ecuador.
48. Tarrow, Sidney 1998 Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
49. Trawick, Paul 2003 Against the Privatization of Water: An Indigenous Model for Improving Existing Laws and Successfully Governing the Commons. World Development 31(6):977-996. (Pubitemid 36594908)
50. Vera-Schattan, Cohelo P., and Arilson Favareto 2008 Questioning the Relationship Between Participation and Development: A Case Study of the Vale do Riveira, Bazil. World Development 36(12):2937-2952.
51. Waalewijn, Pieter, Philippus Wester, and Kees van Straaten 2005 Transforming River Basin Management in South Africa: Lessons From the Lower Komati Basin. Water International 30(2):184-196. (Pubitemid 40856545)
52. Warner, Jeroen, ed. 2007 Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Water Management. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
53. Wester, Philippus 2008 Shedding the Waters: Institutional change and water control in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico. PhD Thesis. Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
54. Wester, Philippus, Jaime Hoogesteger, and Hans Paters 2007 Multi-Stakeholder Processes and Platforms for Surface and Groundwater Management in the Lerma-Chapala Basin, Mexico. In Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Water Management. Jeroen Warner, ed. Pp. 151-164. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
55. Wester, Philippus, Jaime Hoogesteger, and Linden Vincent 2009 Local IWRM Organizations for Groundwater Regulation: The Experiences of the Aquifer Management Councils (Cotas) in Guanajuato, Mexico. Natural Resources Forum 33(1):29-38.
56. Wester, Philippus, Douglas J. Merrey, and Marna de Lange 2003 Boundaries of Consent: Stakeholder Representation in River Basin Management in Mexico and South Africa. World Development 31(5):797-812. (Pubitemid 36524980)
57. Yashar, Deborah. J. 1998 Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Movements and Democracy in Latin America. Comparative Politics 31(1):23-42.
58. 1999 Democracy, Indigenous Movements, and the Postliberal Challenge in Latin America. World Politics 52(1):76-104.
59. Zapatta, Alex n.d. El Proyecto PAT y el desmantelamiento de la Institucionalidad de las Aguas. Unpublished manuscript.
60. Zwarteveen, Margreet, Pranita B. Udas, and Juana Vera 2010 Gendered Dynamics of Participation in Water Management in Nepal and Peru: Revisiting the Linkages Between Membership and Power. In Social Participation in Water Governance and Management: Critical and Global Perspectives. Kate A. Berry and Erik Mollard, eds. Pp. 69-92. London, United Kingdom: Earthscan.