Carles Sanchis-Ibor- Geographer
- Research Associate at Polytechnic University of Valencia
Carles Sanchis-Ibor
- Geographer
- Research Associate at Polytechnic University of Valencia
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September 2001 - December 2020
June 2001 - December 2020
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This paper focuses on the analysis of changes observed in channel morphology in the Serpis River (Alicante, Spain), a gravel‐bed river dammed since 1958. The paper analyses flow series and several aerial images, prior and subsequent to dam construction, to analyse changes in channel morphology and vegetation colonisation using Geographical Informat...
Irrigation is a central feature of agriculture in Mediterranean countries. During the twentieth century, and more specifically after World War II, most states have invested massively in large-scale dams, interbasin transfers, and public irrigation schemes. More recently, farmers have capitalized on increasingly cheap pumping devices to tap groundwa...
During the last decades, several regions of the world have experienced an increasingly forceful penetration by commercial service companies into irrigation water management, altering the institutional structures and procedures of common-pool resources management. In many cases, private-sector penetration takes place when water user organizations re...
On the morning of 14th October 1956, a mass made of boulders and mud fall through the slope of the Rodeno Mountain (Calderona range) and destroyed part of the urban area of Marines (Valencia), causing 6 fatalities and numerous material damages. This research reconstructs this event and develops an interpretation of the mass movement, based on docum...
The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the dominant water use. In Section 1, the collection canvasses five key crosscutting issues shaping the challenge of sustainable wate...
In recent decades, there has been a massive replacement of flood irrigation with drip irrigation throughout the world. Numerous studies have been published on the efficiency of these techniques in terms of water savings, but few works have paid attention to their economic efficiency at farm scale. In this research, a two-stage methodology has been...
Resumen: En España, así como en el resto del mundo, un número creciente de ríos se encuentran en crisis. En esta contribución presentamos un marco conceptual ('Riverhood') para entender a los ríos a través de cuatro perspectivas conceptuales analíticamente distintas, pero estrechamente entretejidas. Estas perspectivas son: 'río-como-ecosociedad', '...
This research explores the interface between data, information, and knowledge on groundwater systems. We aim to identify the main emergent foresight knowledge related to the application to groundwater management of what we have defined as enhanced information systems (EISs). The results presented are based on results from a Delphi study undertaken...
La mayor parte de los ríos efímeros mediterráneos (ramblas) se encuentran en un estado notable de degradación después de décadas de impactos humanos severos (e.g. extracción de gravas). La temporalidad del caudal en las ramblas ha contribuido a su abandono social y legislativo. Nuestra compañera Francesca Segura ha sido un referente en el estudio d...
New information and communication technologies have a significant potential to increase the transparency of aquifer management and improve groundwater governance. This research experiments the introduction of a mobile application that allows users to transfer and share information about their groundwater extractions and receive agroclimatic informa...
Effective and sustainable management of aquifers in regions with intensive groundwater use for irrigation requirements accurate mapping or irrigated areas to control water resource exploitation and plan rational water usage. This study proposes a cost-effective methodology based on satellite images to identify irrigated areas utilizing surface wate...
The European transition to renewable energy sources is increasingly reconfiguring land use in rural and peri-urban areas. These processes of change have diverse local social, ecological, and economic implications, and trigger divergent responses that range from outright contestation and protest, to welcoming and accommodating renewable energy proje...
In recent years, co-management has been highlighted in the scientific literature as fundamental strategy for groundwater governance. However, the development of such an institutional architecture is complex and presents important pitfalls and challenges. Based on participatory action research, in this article we analyse the recent experience of co-...
Mega-damming, pollution and depletion endanger rivers worldwide. Meanwhile, modernist imaginaries of ordering ‘unruly waters and humans’ have become cornerstones of hydraulic-bureaucratic and capitalist development. They separate hydro/social worlds, sideline river-commons cultures, and deepen socio-environmental injustices. But myriad new water ju...
In this article we introduce the notion of imaginaries as a conceptual entry to study and better understand how and why commons recreate and transform. We do so by first exploring imaginaries as assemblages, and second by analytically dividing imaginaries in dominant and alternative imaginaries. While the former refer to how people imagine and live...
Climate change is challenging the conventional approaches for water systems planning. Two main approaches are commonly implemented in the design of climate change adaptation plans: impact-oriented top-down approaches and vulnerability-oriented bottom-up approaches. In order to overcome the shortcomings of both approaches and take advantage of their...
This paper presents a holistic analysis of the September 12–15, 2019, flash flood in the Mar Menor basin (Spain). The research aims to analyse the causal factors, define the flooding processes and establish criteria to detect the active zone in highly anthropized alluvial apron systems. For this purpose, several data sources were combined: digital...
CONTEXT
Worldwide farmer managed irrigation systems have provided crops for food, feed and the market for centuries. From high mountain environments to river valleys and deltas, in all continents people have organized to construct, use, maintain, transform and sustain irrigated agro-ecosystems. In this context it is important to better understand h...
LA CONSTRUCCIÓ DELS PAISATGES VALENCIANS EN L'OBRA DE JOAN F. MATEU BELLÉS
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L'activitat de Joan Mateu com a geògraf ha comportat una llarga dedicació a l'anàlisi de la construcció de diversos paisatges, alguns dels quals han marcat tant la seua trajectòria vital com la professional, i han esdevingut, tot alhora, àmbits d'aprenentatge i de...
Los números 108 y 109 de la revista Cuadernos de Geografía rinden homenaje al profesor Joan F. Mateu Bellés con motivo de su jubilación, tras una larga y fructífera carrera académica e investigadora desarrollada en la Universitat de València. Doctorado en 1981, accede a la cátedra de Geografía Física en 1987 y desde entonces ha compaginado su traba...
During the latter half of the twentieth century, Mediterranean ephemeral rivers underwent a profound metamorphosis. Fluvial adjustment processes narrowed the channels, simplified their planform pattern and notably reduced sediment availability. Today, this makes it extremely difficult to analyse the behaviour of this type of river in former aggrada...
During the last three decades, the irrigation communities of the Valencian citrus area massively
opted for the adoption of drip irrigation systems that incorporated centralized fertigation systems. This
option has been a barrier to the growth of organic farming, given the impossibility of using the generic
fertilizer introduced by the irrigation co...
The sustainability of agriculture in the Mediterranean climate is challenged by high irrigation water demands and nitrogen fertilizer losses to the environment, causing significant pressure on groundwater resources and groundwater-dependent ecosystems. Advanced irrigation technologies and improved fertilizer management have been promoted as key sol...
The adaptation to the multiple facets of climate/global change challenges the conventional means of water system planning. Numerous demand and supply management options are often available, from which a portfolio of adaptation measures needs to be selected in a context of high uncertainty about future conditions. A framework is developed to integra...
This paper presents an analysis of cycling lane infrastructure in València, with the aim of identifying possible deficiencies and imbalances in the city’s districts. A novel proposal was developed for a typological classification based on comfort criteria, together with an analysis of the territorial distribution of cycling routes.
The technologic...
En el mundo mediterráneo, la acción antrópica sobre los sistemas fluviales es tan antigua como la humanidad. Los impactos han afectado tanto a los ríos perennes como a los efímeros. Sin embargo, debido tanto a las características inherentes a los ríos efímeros (escasa circulación hídrica,) como a la escasa consideración por parte de la administraci...
Climate change and increased competition for water resources are generating growing concern about how to improve water-use efficiency in agriculture. In turn, this has prompted substantial investments in the installation of water-saving technologies in irrigation systems. The first aim of this research is to use data envelopment analysis to quantif...
The replacement of flood‐irrigation systems by drip‐irrigation technology has been widely promoted with the aim of a more sustainable use of freshwater resources in irrigated agriculture. However, evidence for an irrigation efficiency paradox emphasizes the need to improve our understanding of the impacts of irrigation transformations on water reso...
Resumen: Estamos ante una hoja de ruta para la citricultura española, publicada un año después, no por casualidad, de la catastrófica campaña de 2018-2019, organizada en cuatro ejes básicos: el análisis de la cadena de valor, las nuevas tecnologías, el reto de la sostenibilidad ambiental y la sanidad vegetal, y las políticas comerciales. Estamos an...
Agricultural irrigation is the major water consumer in the Mediterranean region. In response to the growing pressure on freshwater resources, more efficient irrigation technologies have been widely promoted. In this study, we assess the impact of the ongoing transition from flood to drip irrigation on future hydroclimatic regimes under various clim...
Citation: Sanchis-Ibor, C.; Ortega-Reig, M.; Guillem-García, A.; Carricondo, J.M.; Manzano-Juárez, J.; García-Mollá, M.; Royuela, Á. Irrigation Post-Modernization. Farmers Envisioning Irrigation Policy in the Region of Valencia (Spain). Agriculture 2021, 11, 317. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11040317
Book reviews - Crítica de libros - Crítica de livros - Index Julio Escalona, Orri Vésteinsson and Stuart Brookes (Eds.): Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe Chris Callow Rebecca J.H. Woods: The Herds Shot Round the World. Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 Nancy Cushing Buckley, Eve E.: Technocrats and the Politics of Dro...
Drip irrigation technology in existing collective surface irrigation schemes is frequently implemented through top-down policies and black box projects, causing significant changes in agricultural water management, uneven effects on local practices and organisations, and very different reactions in the social structures of irrigation. In this paper...
A lo largo del siglo xx los sistemas fluviales han sufrido una importante metamorfosis,
provocada tanto por causas naturales como antrópicas. Las oscilaciones climáticas acaecidas
desde finales de la Pequeña Edad del Hielo y los cambios de usos del suelo, con
el abandono de la agricultura y la ganadería en las cabeceras de los ríos (Beguería et al....
Los ríos mediterráneos están experimentando una profunda metamorfosis debido a los
procesos de cambio global. Las modificaciones naturales y antrópicas de las cuencas y de los cauces provocan un importante déficit hidrosedimentario, que a su vez genera cambios en los cauces. En las últimas décadas, se han observado procesos de colonización vegetal...
On the morning of 14th October 1956, a mass made of boulders and mud fall through the slope of the Rodeno Mountain (Calderona range) and destroyed part of the urban area of Marines (Valencia), causing 6 fatalities and numerous material damages. This research reconstructs this event and develops an interpretation of the mass movement, based on docum...
Los cursos de agua efímeros del ámbito mediterráneo plantean muchas dificultades para que puedan ser objeto de programas de restauración. Los problemas derivan de la gravedad de los impactos geomorfológicos que sufren, de su funcionamiento repentino y esporádico-de ocurrencia a veces impredecible-, de su escasísima consideración en el marco de la g...
Mediterranean irrigation is diverse due to, among other factors, the relative importance of water in the economy of each country, varied levels of aridity, heterogeneous levels economic, social and technological levels of development, and differences in political and social organization. However, most of the Mediterranean countries face similar pro...
The persistent application of a supply-side management model has led Spain to a critical situation, placing irrigation at the center of national political debates. This chapter describes how, to overcome this hydro-political crisis, the administration and the farmers’ associations have supported three non-conflicting strategies: introducing water m...
Unlike other Western European countries, community gardens have appeared very recently in Spain, and they
have rapidly increased during the last decade. Community gardens have adopted different forms –rental, municipal and associative– with contrasted managerial practices. This paper analyzes collectivity of community
gardens in València (Spain), i...
This paper analyses recent experiences of water transfers between rural and urban areas in Mediterranean Spain (Valencia Region) to assess the validity and sustainability of these procedures, and their fairness and consistency with the spirit of the current legal water framework. In order to investigate the transfer mechanisms, three case studies w...
Book reviews Dulce Freire and Pedro Lains (Eds.). An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2017, 347 pp. Benedita Câmara Annie Antoine (Ed.). Agricultural Specialisation and Rural Patterns of Development. Turnhout, Brepols, 2016, 303 pp. Piet van Cruyningen Guido Alfani and Cor...
En las últimas décadas han surgido diversos enfoques para dar respuesta a los desafíos que plantea la gestión del agua. Este artículo presenta, de manera introductoria, las principales aproximaciones teó-ricas desde las cuales se está analizando en la actualidad el uso y la gobernanza del agua: las corrientes neoinstitucionalistas, la teoría de los...
The Albufera de Valencia is a complex anthropogenic waterscape, constructed by different social groups over centuries. Today water management in the protected wetland remains opaque, much like the water in the eutrophic lagoon. Four major organizations manage this natural heritage, which remains torn between nature conservation and rice growing, in...
p>This paper develops a participatory methodology to integrate farmer’s vision in the design of an adaptation strategy to global change in the Jucar River basin. It aims at answering three questions: How farmers perceive climate change impacts; which adaptation measures they consider; and how they assess these measures. Participatory workshops with...
Mediterranean irrigation is diverse due to, among other factors, the relative importance of water in the economy of each country, varied levels of aridity, heterogeneous levels economic, social and technological levels of development, and differences in political and social organization. However, most of the Mediterranean countries face similar pro...
This paper develops a participatory methodology to integrate farmer’s vision in the design
of an adaptation strategy to global change in the Jucar River basin. It aims at answering three questions: How farmers perceive climate change impacts; which adaptation measures they consider; and how they assess these measures. Participatory workshops with d...
Processes of technological change foster the silent penetration of private enterprise in collective irrigation water management in numerous areas of Spain, and in other Mediterranean countries. This paper discusses this phenomenon through a case study of the community of Senyera (València), tracking the privatization and subsequent contestation and...
Between 1945 and 2018, the Millars River, has undergone significant morphological changes induced by
several human activities developed in the river channel and basin. The river has lost the braided forms;
the active channel has narrowed and has adopted a slightly meandering channel. This research is based
on the interpretation of historical aerial...
In recent decades, water has been subjected to different commodification and de-collectivization processes.
Increasingly, this is also affecting collective irrigation water management. Critical analysis of this privatization
and de-collectivization wave in the irrigation sector has mainly focused on neoliberal institutional policies and
market-orie...
During the 1970s, the Palancia River was intensively affected by gravel mining instream. This activity completely destroyed the fluvial forms, devastating the original wandering pattern. At the end of the 1980s, gravel mining ceased and the river started a process of recovery, only altered by several clearing operations. The aim of this work is to...
Con el objetivo de valorar los efectos producidos por la modernización de los regadíos, se ha llevado a cabo un estudio comparativo del balance hídrico y producciones en parcelas de cítricos con riego por gravedad y riego localizado, pertenecientes respectivamente a los sectores 23 y 24 de la Acequia Real del Júcar. Se ha observado que las parcelas...
This work focuses on the transformation occurred with the shift from surface to drip irrigation, looking at three collective irrigation systems in Valencia (Spain). The extension of drip irrigation over areas previously irrigated by systems of gravity channels entails a process of change and transformation of institutions and organizations managing...
During the last 30 years, regional and central administrations and farmers have done
an important financial effort in order to promote irrigation modernization in the Valencia
Region. This policy, a corollary of a National investment on demand management, has
been materialized in an important expansion of drip irrigation techniques. The aim of this...
The aim of this study is to conduct an ex post analysis of the generalized implementation of drip irrigation in the last two decades in the Valencia Region (Spain). Due to the important role played by water users' associations (WUAs) in this socio-technological change in the region, this research was based on 77 interviews with different WUAs that...
This paper analyses the Girona River (Spain) flash flood, occurred on the 12th of October 2007, combining hydrological and hydraulic modeling with geomorphologic mapping and post-flood survey information. This research aims to reproduce the flood event in order to understand and decipher the flood processes and dynamics on a system of overlapped pr...
A inicios de la pasada decada la legislacion espanola de aguas incorporo diversos cambios normativos para permitir la realizacion de cesiones e intercambios de recursos hidricos entre concesionarios y usuarios, con el animo de flexibilizar la asignacion de recursos y mejorar su aprovechamiento, particularmente en contextos de escasez. Sin embargo,...
During the decade of 1970, the Palancia river was intensively affected by gravel mining. This activity destroyed the fluvial forms, devastating the original wandering-braided pattern. At the end of the 1980 decade, gravel mining was forbidden and the river started a process of recovery. The aim of this work is to describe these processes of change...
This paper develops a critical analysis of geomorphologic river restoration projects recently executed in Spain, based on data from the National Strategy for Rivers Restoration (2012) and the restoration projects developed by the Júcar Basin Authority. Recent research on the geomorphologic evolution of two Valencian ephemeral rivers (Palancia and R...
An analysis of morphological changes during the last six decades is presented for the Rambla de Cervera, a Mediterranean ephemeral stream located in the eastern sector of the Iberian Mountain Range. The studied channel (16.5 km) has two contrasted sectors: a horst confined sector (5.5 km) and a graben sector (11 km). Channel changes were analysed t...
An analysis of morphological changes during the last six decades is presented for the Rambla de Cervera, a Mediterranean ephemeral stream located in the eastern sector of the Iberian Mountain Range. The studied channel (16.5 km) has two contrasted sectors: a horst confined sector (5.5 km) and a graben sector (11 km). Channel changes were analysed t...
The modernization of the irrigation systems has been the main strategy followed by the regional administration of the Valencia Region to cope with the structural water deficit of the region, which has been particularly severe during the last three decades. These policies have been oriented to the substitution of gravity irrigation systems for drip...
This paper analyzes the possibilities that mathematical models offer to reconstruct flood events, and to predict their erosional and sedimentary effects. To that end, the severe flood event of October 2000 of the Palancia River (Valencia, Spain) is assessed. The hydraulic reconstruction was performed with the software GUAD 2D, a two-dimensional mat...
The aim of this article is to analyze the strategies developed by water users’ associations in Spain to overcome drought in a context of structural scarcity due to geographical conditions and from the development of expansionary irrigation policies. This analysis is based on interviews with farmers and representatives of water user’s associations i...
An analysis of morphological changes during the last six decades is presented for a 16.5-km reach of the Rambla de Cervera, a Mediterranean ephemeral stream located in eastern Spain. Channel changes were analysed through a range of techniques, specifically the analysis of aerial photographs with geographical information systems (GIS) and comparison...
