Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings

"Knowledge Assessment on Sustainable Water Resources Management for Irrigation" (KASWARMI) project made evident cases of unsuccessful or non sustainable irrigation experiences that could only be explained by the underestimation of deep socioeconomic issues. This involves not only the socia...

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Autores principales:	Montaña,Elma, Pastor,Gabriela, Torres,Laura
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA 2009
Materias:	irrigation socioeconomic issues social sciences state of the art
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-583920090005000062018-10-01Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and MeaningsMontaña,ElmaPastor,GabrielaTorres,Laura irrigation socioeconomic issues social sciences state of the art "Knowledge Assessment on Sustainable Water Resources Management for Irrigation" (KASWARMI) project made evident cases of unsuccessful or non sustainable irrigation experiences that could only be explained by the underestimation of deep socioeconomic issues. This involves not only the social factors related to the implementation/adoption of new or better technologies by a wide spectrum of users but also the way in which water use and irrigation projects are conceived, planned and implemented by scientists, politicians and practitioners. The project was interested in assessing the social science inputs irrigation specialists receive. With this objective, this paper presents a state of the art on some selected socioeconomic subjects as they appear in the irrigation literature, and analyzes the way in which they are conceived, thought and articulated with the more "technical" factors of irrigation. This should be useful to raise new avenues of research and to enhance articulation of "technical" and social science approaches in quest of a more close to sustainability irrigation practices. A first search covered eight of the most prestigious journals devoted to irrigation subjects. After this search yielded meager results in terms of the amount of papers found, a new search was conducted, without restraining to specific journals but moving freely with a deliberate thematic purpose. The results showed less socioeconomic issues than desirable in the papers within easy reach of irrigation engineers, a meager presence of Latin American cases and an approach to socioeconomic subjects that lack comprehensiveness, as they did not appear to be fully articulated with the technical subjects of irrigation.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAChilean journal of agricultural research v.69 suppl.1 20092009-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392009000500006en10.4067/S0718-58392009000500006
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description	"Knowledge Assessment on Sustainable Water Resources Management for Irrigation" (KASWARMI) project made evident cases of unsuccessful or non sustainable irrigation experiences that could only be explained by the underestimation of deep socioeconomic issues. This involves not only the social factors related to the implementation/adoption of new or better technologies by a wide spectrum of users but also the way in which water use and irrigation projects are conceived, planned and implemented by scientists, politicians and practitioners. The project was interested in assessing the social science inputs irrigation specialists receive. With this objective, this paper presents a state of the art on some selected socioeconomic subjects as they appear in the irrigation literature, and analyzes the way in which they are conceived, thought and articulated with the more "technical" factors of irrigation. This should be useful to raise new avenues of research and to enhance articulation of "technical" and social science approaches in quest of a more close to sustainability irrigation practices. A first search covered eight of the most prestigious journals devoted to irrigation subjects. After this search yielded meager results in terms of the amount of papers found, a new search was conducted, without restraining to specific journals but moving freely with a deliberate thematic purpose. The results showed less socioeconomic issues than desirable in the papers within easy reach of irrigation engineers, a meager presence of Latin American cases and an approach to socioeconomic subjects that lack comprehensiveness, as they did not appear to be fully articulated with the technical subjects of irrigation.
author	Montaña,Elma Pastor,Gabriela Torres,Laura
author_facet	Montaña,Elma Pastor,Gabriela Torres,Laura
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title	Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings
title_short	Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings
title_full	Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings
title_fullStr	Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings
title_full_unstemmed	Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings
title_sort	socioeconomic issues in irrigation literature: approaches, concepts, and meanings
publisher	Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA
publishDate	2009
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Socioeconomic Issues in Irrigation Literature: Approaches, Concepts, and Meanings

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