NDLI: Water use in arid rural systems and the integration of water and agricultural policies in Europe: the case of Andarax river basin

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Author	Cabello Villarejo, Violeta Madrid Lopez, Cristina
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Water is a precious resource in arid rural areas with irrigated agriculture. Nonetheless, water and agricultural policies in Europe show different management scopes and objectives, usually translated in divergent drivers of rural change. This paper has a double aim: to propose a specific method for quantitative biophysical analysis of water use in rural systems with the multi-scale integrated analysis of societal and ecosystem metabolism approach and to show the usefulness of this method for the assessment of the integration of water and agricultural policies. The river basin scale is chosen, since it is the socioecological unit for water management established in the water framework directive 2000/60/CE. A multi-scale water use accounting is provided for a Mediterranean river basin in Andalusia, integrating water cycle, ecosystems and social levels. Particularly focusing on agricultural production, a relevant set of indicators is proposed in order to analyze and compare different metabolic patterns. Finally, the integration of water and agricultural planning is assessed in terms of external (biophysical) and internal (economic, institutional) constraints of the new water-use patterns generated by the scenarios posed in these policies. While on a European level water policy is ambitious in terms of ecological conservation, the lack of integration within the common agricultural policy and the entanglement of multiple scales of political and economic organization of local ruralities blur its priority in a rather slow transition to a new water culture.
Starting Page	957
Ending Page	975
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1387585X
Journal	Environment, Development and Sustainability
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15732975
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-04-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Societal metabolism of water Water-use sustainability River basin management Water framework directive Policy integration Almeria Sustainable Development Environmental Management Environmental Economics Ecology Economic Growth Economic Geology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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