DOI: 10.2166/wcc.2015.154
论文题名: Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
作者: Madrigal-Ballestero R. ; Naranjo M.A.
刊名: Journal of Water and Climate Change
ISSN: 20402244
出版年: 2015
卷: 6, 期: 4 起始页码: 831
结束页码: 847
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Adaptation
; Common-pool resources
; Community-based adaptation governance
英文摘要: Community-based drinking water organizations (CBDWOs) are the most important providers of water in rural areas of the developing world. They are responsible for coping with future threats due to climate change, besides other non-climatic drivers of change such as demographic growth. The inherent capacities of CBDWOs to adapt to external drivers of change would be greatly conditioned by their capacities to initiate and catalyze collective processes. The rich background of CDBWOs’ actual and historical responses to drought phenomena is an essential starting point for understanding both the processes and the limitations of adapting to future adverse climatic events. In this study, we contrast six CBDWOs located in the Costa Rican dry corridor, in order to analyze their ability to self-organize coping with recent annual periodical droughts. We found that CBDWOs implement hard, soft, and ecosystem-based adaptation measures. The decisions in this regard are reactive, tend to follow a sequential order, and are context dependent. One of the main factors that facilitates capital-intensive adaptation measures is the ability of CBDWOs to mobilize internal or external financial resources, which further depends on social capital and the governance structure. © IWA Publishing 2015. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/67634
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作者单位: Turrialba, Costa Rica
Recommended Citation:
Madrigal-Ballestero R.,Naranjo M.A.. Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica[J]. Journal of Water and Climate Change,2015-01-01,6(4)