Agua para la Gente: Experiencias De Gestión Comunitaria del Agua en el Ecuador

Translated title of the contribution: Water for the People: Experiences of Community Water Management in Ecuador

Research output: Book/ReportBook

Abstract

The conservation, access, distribution, use and final disposal of water are constant concerns, especially in rural areas where indigenous and peasant communities have implemented their own forms of management and administration. The text describes how water generates power in community territories; describes the way in which communities implement strategies for the conservation of water sources; examines water as a fundamental axis for community development; identifies the implementation of collective-community actions in the face of neoliberalism; and finally analyzes the problems of wastewater management. Water for the People gathers seven experiences from different sectors of the country. Three articles from research projects and four degree theses by students of the Management for Sustainable Local Development program of the Salesian Polytechnic University contribute to the analysis of community water management. We trust that this publication will feed the discussion on the defense of water, the concepts, methods and practices that make political ecology a particularly active and transcendent space in the lives of peoples, indigenous and peasant communities and society as a whole.
Translated title of the contributionWater for the People: Experiences of Community Water Management in Ecuador
Original languageSpanish (Ecuador)
PublisherEditorial Universitaria Abya-Yala
Number of pages252
ISBN (Print)978-9978-10-557-3
StatePublished - 12 Apr 2021

Keywords

  • Cayambe
  • Development
  • Ecology and environment
  • Public policies
  • Water resources

CACES Knowledge Areas

  • 125A Environment

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