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18 March 2004 Bridging Scales and Epistemologies The Stuggle for Local Autonomy David Barkin Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco [email protected] Sources: Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development Innovaciones Mexicanas en el Manejo del Agua
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18 March 2004 Bridging Scales and Epistemologies
The Stuggle for Local Autonomy
David BarkinUniversidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Sources: Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable DevelopmentInnovaciones Mexicanas en el Manejo del Agua
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Fighting Poverty: Fighting Poverty: Ignoring Local Ignoring Local EpistemologiesEpistemologies
Blaming victims vs. Mobilizing capacities
Welfare orientation (Charity vs. Self-help)
Education (Formal schooling vs. Learning as a process)
Innovation (Technology vs. Post-normal science)
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Alternative Alternative StatrategiesStatrategies
for Local Developmentfor Local Development
Fundamental Principles :Autonomy
Self-sufficiencyProductive DiversificationEcosystem Management
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The War Economy
Societies Respond to Improve their own conditons
• Improving social and physical infrastructure water; sewage; literacy; etc.
• Reconquer food self-sufficiency• Social tourism• Rehabilitate green zones and protected areas• Promote popular development
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Society Responds
• Forging local strategies
• Constructing new models for coexistence in the face of pressures created by globalization; they are not simply holdovers from the past
• Reversing the threats from globalization to “the wretched of the earth”
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The CHALLENGE
STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES• Economics
• Political and institutional management
STRENGTHEN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT• Prevent degradation
• Rehabilitate ecosystems
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Case Study (1)Case Study (1) Ecotourism: Monarch Butterfly
To control a community, disdaining its ability to protect the forest
Reduces rain water harvesting and threatenes a watershed
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Case Study (2)Case Study (2)Huatulco, Oaxaca
Mega-project for beach toursim
(proposed 25 luxury hotels)
Result:
Endangering an Acquifer
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Case Study (2)Case Study (2)Huatulco
Response from 70.000 people living in surrounding mountains (700.000 has.)
Integrates SilvicultureConservation and Production
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Conservation
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Reforestation
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IRRIGATION
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Productive Silviculture
Waste wood from pruning
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Fair Trade
(http://www.artinoaxaca.addr.com)
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Case Study (3)Case Study (3) Water Forever– Mixteca,Oaxaca
Reinvent a regional system of water management cooperation among isolated communities
(1,500.000 has. – 150.000 indig. people)
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PRESAS DE GAVIONESY MAMPOSTERIA"EL TERRERO"
BARRANCA "PIRULES"
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ALTERNATIVAS Y PROCESOS DEPARTICIPACION SOCIAL [email protected]
ORTOFOTO AEREA PARAJ E "EL TERRERO"
PROYECCION TRANSVERSA DE MERCATORUTM 1983 ZONA 14 GSR80ESCALA 1:5,000
CORRIENTE SECUNDARIA
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SIMBOLOGIA
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PARAJE “EL TERRERO”
REPRESA DE REPRESA DE CAPTACIÓNCAPTACIÓN
PRESAS PRESAS FILTRANTESFILTRANTES
REFORESTACIÓN Y REFORESTACIÓN Y BORDEO CON BORDEO CON
VEGETACIÓN ÚTIL VEGETACIÓN ÚTIL PARA CONSERVACIÓN PARA CONSERVACIÓN
DE SUELOSDE SUELOS
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Case Study (4)Case Study (4)Water Treatment Plants
Create incentives for treating waste water: Environmental management Commercial activities Generate employment Consolidate community organizations
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Wastewater Treatment Plants
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Case Study (5)Case Study (5) Tradicional Innovation
Generate new products: Price premiums (organic and green products;
pork ‘lite’; Omega-3 eggs) Reduce contamination and recharge acquifers Strengthen community and the role of women Strengthen cultural identities
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INNOVATING TRADITION
Point of departure:
“Discover” local knowledge: avocados reduce cholesterol in mammels
Response:
Develop a diet for hogs to rescue traditional backyard farming systems
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OTHER WORLDS ARE OTHER WORLDS ARE POSSIBLEPOSSIBLE
SAY NONO TO “TINA”“There is no Alternative”
(Margaret Thatcher – World Bank)
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18 March 2004 Bridging Scales and Epistemologies
The Stuggle for Local Autonomy
¡Muchas Gracias!
David [email protected]
