Rossana Manosalvas- PhD Student at Wageningen University & Research
Rossana Manosalvas
- PhD Student at Wageningen University & Research
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Rossana Manosalvas currently works at the Water Resources Management Group, Wageningen University & Research. Rossana does research in Political Ecology. My current project is around sociopolitical conflicts around paramos as Hydrosocial Territories.
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Interdisciplinary knowledge is necessary to achieve sustainable management of natural resources. However, research is still often developed in an exclusively disciplinary manner, hampering the capacity to holistically address environmental issues. This study focuses on páramo, a group of high-elevation ecosystems situated around ∼3000 to ∼5000 m a....
Interdisciplinary knowledge is necessary to achieve sustainable management of natural resources. However, research is still often developed in an exclusively disciplinary manner, hampering the capacity to holistically address environmental issues. This study focuses on páramo, a group of high-elevation ecosystems situated around ∼3000 to ∼5000 m a....
How Ecuadorian páramos are perceived has drastically changed over the last five decades. From cold, hostile, and unproductive hinterlands, páramos have changed to become areas for biodiversity conservation and ‘water towers’ that ought to be protected to provide clean and abundant water for cities and irrigation. To understand how these changing pe...
La co-gobernanza de las organizaciones estatales y comunitarias en el suministro de agua potable se considera una forma eficaz y eficiente de lograr servicios de agua sostenibles e inclusivos. Este estudio analiza la pugna por el arreglo de gestión del proyecto regional de agua potable Pesillo-Imbabura en la Sierra Norte del Ecuador. Describe el de...
In the Andes, indigenous communities are being increasingly besieged because their páramos act as water providers for cities and irrigation systems downstream. This has led indigenous communities to protect their hydrosocial territories from external actors and re-create them to contest these threats. In this context, we analyse how the Kayambi com...
This paper examines the threats to Indigenous water rights and territories in the Andean countries. It analyzes
how water and water rights are embedded in Indigenous territories, and how powerful actors and intervention
projects tend to undermine local societies and indigenous livelihoods by developing large-scale water
infrastructure. Three cases...
