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Emilie Dupuits currently works as a Professor of International Relations at the University San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. She is collaborating on various research projects on water ecosystem services and community-based water conservation in the Ecuadorian highlands, as well as on climate adaptation strategies and policies in the Andean mountains and at the global scale. She is also an editor at the Alternautas and Grassroots journal, related to alternative development in the Global South.
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Forest communities around the world are increasingly connected to defend territorial and community rights over lands and forests. This is how the International Model Forest Network (IMFN) was created in 1995 by the Government of Canada, aiming at bringing together a diverse association of individuals and groups towards a common vision of sustainabl...
In Ecuador, the Andean highlands ecosystems, also known as páramos, are essential for producing water for human consumption and irrigation. Some páramos in the country are managed by indigenous communities that have contributed to their conservation through principles of reciprocity, territory and culture. However, these community-led initiatives a...
En Ecuador, los ecosistemas de páramos son esenciales para la producción de agua de consumo humano y de riego. Algunos páramos en el país son manejados por comunidades locales e indígenas que han contribuido a su conservación a través de planes de manejo del agua y el páramo basados en valores de reciprocidad, territorio y cultura. Sin embargo, exi...
While there is increasing progress made at the global scale on understanding climate change (CC) impacts and implementing adaptation solutions, there is still a major gap in documenting and assessing the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for CC adaptation. This is particularly challenging if we consider the diversity of local...
This Special Issue seeks to offer empirical evidence of the forms of knowledge valued by different actors involved in water conservation practices, the dynamics of cross-fertilization dynamics, and possible tensions that emerge. It investigates knowledge dialogue and co-creation around water conservation through case studies at the local, regional...
A escala global, los expertos internacionales producen conocimientos sobre servicios ecosistémicos, muchas veces asociados a visiones tecnocientíficas del recurso hídrico. A escala local, esas visiones muchas veces compiten con reclamos de justicia hídrica y conocimiento local o tradicional, defendido por movimientos de base. Este análisis se basa...
While there is increasing progress made at the global scale on understanding climate change impacts and implementing adaptation solutions, there is still a major gap in documenting and assessing the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for climate change (CC) adaptation. This is particularly challenging if we consider the divers...
Created in 2010 during the international climate conference in Cancún, Mexico, the Mesoamerican alliance of peoples and forests (AMPB) lobbies for the recognition of territorial rights, which it frames as a fundamental safeguard in the global fight against climate change. On the one hand, it seeks to participate in global climate arenas, so as to c...
A vast amount of literature has investigated the conflicts between different ways of conceiving development in Latin America. Particular attention has been paid to power differentials among knowledge systems when it comes to decision-making, values and practices over water resources. The Ecosystem Services framework or Integrated Water Resources Ma...
The Andean region presents specific challenges related to its globally important natural heritage, the broad range of pressures on landscapes and ecosystems that accentuate the effects of climate change (CC), and a great diversity of institutional arrangements and policy tools to increase the adaptive capacity of socioecological systems and related...
We are happy to share with our readers a series of seven articles, to be published between mid-October and mid-December, from diverse disciplinary perspectives – including anthropology, archaeology, political science, development studies and critical sociology and geography – showing the diversity of existing approaches to study water (neo)extracti...
Created in 2010 during the international climate conference in Cancún, Mexico, the Mesoamerican alliance of peoples and forests (AMPB) lobbies for the recognition of territorial rights, which it frames as a fundamental safeguard in the global fight against climate change. On the one hand, it seeks to participate in global climate arenas, so as to c...
Este artículo se enfoca en las alianzas que el Estado ha buscado establecer en los territorios como eje articulador de los procesos comunitarios, en una estructura vertical bajo los ropajes de modelos participativos e inclusivos. Desde las experiencias de alianzas para manejo del agua y de circuitos cortos de comercialización de alimentos en Imbabu...
“Climatization” of international arenas and natural resources
Since the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) on climate change in Copenhagen in 2009, the mobilization of global civil society has in. Indeed, the increased significantly. Indeed, the collaboration between traditional non governmental organizations (NGOs) and transnational civil soci...
https://www.erlacs.org/articles/abstract/10.32992/erlacs.10713/
En un contexto de injusticia hídrica y de extractivismo, varios movimientos comunitarios de la provincia de Imbabura, en la sierra norte del Ecuador, buscan participar en y beneficiarse de proyectos de desarrollo verde. Tanto el proyecto regional de agua potable Pesillo-Imbabura como...
The Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism faces implementation challenges related to tenure security and governance institutions. In response, multiple regional climate mitigation initiatives have emerged. In Peru, indigenous networks have created their own Indigenous Amazonian REDD (RIA), an initiative...
In the context of globalizing transboundary environmental challenges, strategies to protect and secure the local commons such as water resources have been increasingly scaled up. Consequently, local communities have started to engage in transnational mobilisations to defend their rights and express their concerns. This often implies the adoption an...
Since the 1990s, forest-dependent communities in tropical regions have created national and transnational grassroots networks. While in Latin America, their main goal is to promote community forestry and claim territorial rights, forest-dependent communities in the Congo Basin are more focused on improving participatory inclusion in forest policies...
In the 1990s, various attempts to privatize water services in Latin America came from international financial institutions. Several social movements emerged to protest against privatization, especially from community and indigenous organizations collectively managing their water resources. Recent contestations are arising against extractivist state...
Book Review Essay
– Grassroots Global Governance: Local Watershed Management Experiments and the Evolution of Sustainable Development, Edited by Craig Kauffman, Oxford University Press, 2016.
– Water Justice, Edited by Rutgerd Boelens, Tom Perreault and Jeroen Vos, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
– Drip Irrigation for Agriculture. Untold Stories...
L’émergence en 2010 d’un réseau transnational communautaire,
l’Alliance mésoaméricaine des peuples et forêts (AMPB),
s’inscrit dans le contexte d’une gouvernance fragmentée de la
biodiversité et d’une globalisation des enjeux climatiques. Ce
réseau fut créé en marge de la seizième Conférence des parties
(COP) à la Convention-cadre des Nations unies...
The current era of globalization and commodification has had a substantial impact on commonpool resources governance. In direct response to this, community-based organizations managing water and forests at the local level began to create their own transnational networks. Primarily, these organizations aim to achieve direct representation in interna...
This is the first time Alternautas devotes an entire issue to the theme of water, a natural resource which is at the core of the debates on the kind of development model Latin American countries engage into. Indeed, water resources are at the core of numerous conflicts in which antagonist visions of development are revealed. To name just a few amon...
http://www.revue-emulations.net/archives/20---enjeux-environnementaux-transnationaux/biodiversite-gestion-forestire
Since the 1990s, forest governance is increasingly inserted into globalization processes in the framework of international policies aiming at reducing deforestation, conserving biodiversity and fighting climate change. Facing these i...
Since the 2000s, facing the increasing globalization and commodification of common-pool resources, community-based organizations managing water and forests at the local level started to create transnational networks. Their main goal is to get direct representation in global governance arenas and to transform languages of expertise around governance...
Since the 2000s, local communities responsible for the management of water services have started to organize themselves at higher scales of action, through sub-national and national networks, in order to promote their mode of community-based governance (notably in South America). They are especially seeking to respond both to internal pressures, su...
Alors que la gouvernance mondiale de l'environnement se trouve actuellement dans une phase d'ouverture vers les acteurs de la société civile, la compréhension de leur rôle dans la production des normes environnementales reste incomplète. Pourtant, ces acteurs, tels que les ONG mais aussi les réseaux transnationaux d'organisations de la société civi...
