H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

ORIGINSOFSCARCITY · Origins of Scarcity: Labour and the Metabolism of Groundwater in the Doñana Socioecological System

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-09-01 → 2023-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 160 932 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Изчерпването на подземните води в Испания се анализира чрез връзката между интензивното земеделие на горски плодове и труда на работниците. Това помага да се разберат причините за екологичните щети в защитената зона Доняна.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Origins of Scarcity: Labour and the Metabolism of Groundwater in the Doñana Socioecological System

ORIGINSOFSCARCITY explores the dynamics underlying aquifer depletion through a focus on agricultural labour in export-oriented water intensive farming. My research focused on the case of groundwater conflicts in Doñana. Espacio Natural Doñana (“Doñana Natural Space”, END) is a protected area located in southwestern Spain that expands across three western provinces of Andalusia. END incorporates two different protection figures, the Doñana national park and the Doñana natural park. Additionally, it is a designated Ramsar site since 1982, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1995) and Biosphere Reserve and it is included in the Natura 2000 network.The entirety of END lies above an aquifer the boundaries of which overflow those of the park. Known as the “Almonte-Marismas aquifer”, this approximately 3400 km² system corresponds to an unconfined aquifer in the western part of the protected area and a part confined under the clay deposits of the eastern floodplains. To the nortwest of END expands a string of municipalities that are integrated into Europe’s most important berry production area. This is the area where current groundwater conflicts are concentrated. The province of Huelva encloses Europe’s most important strawberry cultivation area, Europe’s first raspberry production area and the second blueberry production area, rendering it one of the world’s most important berry exporting regions. Berry production in this area is dependent on irrigation; to the northwest of END this is mostly groundwater extracted from the same aquifer that ensures the presence of lagoons in the protected area. Attempts to curtail water use have been ineffective and presently the scientific consensus is that the compounded effects of water abstraction and drought have resulted in severe ecological disturbances.The project took as its starting point the failure of a protected area enjoying the most important national and international conservation designations to prevent a crisis of ecological reproduction. Its central aim was to understand the alteration of Doñana’s waterscape and why existing conservation policy has failed to contain the effects of irrigated agriculture. This aim was pursued through three specific research objectives: (1) an account of changes in the availability of water supplies and the technological conditions that regulate the conversion of existing water resources into an agricultural input (2) an account of the intensification of groundwater use in relation to transformations in the local labour market (3) an analysis of the interaction between nature conservation and economic activities associated with strawberry farming

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

ORIGINSOFSCARCITY explores the dynamics underlying aquifer depletion through a focus on agricultural labour in export-oriented water intensive farming. Opening the black box of “human-induced environmental change”, the project addresses not only the uneven distribution of environmental harm, but the processes through which people become unequal participants in its production, thus furthering the integrated study of labour and ecological distribution conflicts. ORIGINSOFSCARCITY is a historical ethnography of groundwater depletion and the conflicts surrounding it. The dynamics underlying aquifer depletion are analyzed through the case of the Doñana Wetlands, a World Heritage Site and one of Europe’s most important nature reserves. Located in southwestern Spain, the Doñana National Park has figured prominently in the European environmental conservation agenda for more than half a century. The Doñana region is also one of the most important areas of strawberry farming in the world. The use of groundwater as a primary input in export-oriented strawberry farming is the main process affecting the reproduction of the largest wetland system in the European Union. Attempts to curtail agricultural water use for the purposes of environmental conservation have been portrayed as inimical to job creation and economic growth and more than two decades of administrative measures have not led to the stabilization of groundwater consumption. The project addresses the metabolism of water extractivism in Doñana by focusing on its neglected component: labour. It casts new light on the resilience of growth imperatives and their environmental consequences by showing the ways in which these are anchored by prevailing relations of production and reproduction. The analysis of agricultural labour relations as ecological processes opens a privileged window onto the articulation of social and environmental processes and advances ongoing conversations about overcoming nature-society dualisms.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA · BarcelonaКоординаторИспания