Perspectives of different stakeholders to implement drip irrigation systems and its consequences for land and water use: A case study in Cànyoles river basin, Valencia (Spain)
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2012Autor
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Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
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Proyecto Fin de Carrera / Ikasketen Amaierako Proiektua
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Resumen
El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar el proceso de introducción y expansión de las
tecnologías de goteo en un caso de estudio en Valencia, en el valle del Cànyoles. La
importancia del trabajo yace en que el 80% del agua dulce mundial se utiliza para
regadío por lo que si las nuevas tecnologías reemplazan al riego tradicional es esencial
conocer los efectos producidos al detalle . Así, se ...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar el proceso de introducción y expansión de las
tecnologías de goteo en un caso de estudio en Valencia, en el valle del Cànyoles. La
importancia del trabajo yace en que el 80% del agua dulce mundial se utiliza para
regadío por lo que si las nuevas tecnologías reemplazan al riego tradicional es esencial
conocer los efectos producidos al detalle . Así, se estudiará que el aumento de
superficie irrigado, el coste y consumo de energía y el ahorro del agua juegan el papel
más importante en los sistemas localizados. Además, se le dedica una sección al
patrimonio del agua en esta área de Valencia tan rica en historia relacionada al regadío
Islámico. [--]
Approximately from the nineties of last century irrigation modernization initiatives have been
promoted by the European Water Framework Directive in Spain with the aim to achieve water
savings. In Cànyoles river basin (Valencia), those initiatives were also noted and derived in a
change from the typical open surface irrigation canals that Muslims introduced in the XIII
century, to closed pres ...
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Approximately from the nineties of last century irrigation modernization initiatives have been
promoted by the European Water Framework Directive in Spain with the aim to achieve water
savings. In Cànyoles river basin (Valencia), those initiatives were also noted and derived in a
change from the typical open surface irrigation canals that Muslims introduced in the XIII
century, to closed pressurized systems. Nevertheless, how the initiatives are perceived at field
level by farmers and the reasons why they adopt new technology are different to the written
promoted ideas. One of the challenges is to study how different stakeholders look at drip
irrigation systems: as a water saving tool, as a technology that will help to achieve
sustainability, as a socio-technical tool, as a mere infrastructure, as a yield increasing
innovation? It is observed that each stakeholder understands irrigation systems, as well as drip
systems, differently, which makes it difficult to reach different expectations from the same
action.
The traditional surface irrigation transformation to localized systems brought a series of
consequences like organizational changes in Comunidades de Regantes, in farmer labour work
or in plants responses. Nevertheless, the biggest shifts are related to the rising of energy
consumption and tariffs and irrigated land expansion, which compete and question the
promoted water saving quality of drip irrigation systems. [--]
Materias
Riego por goteo,
Cuenca del río Cànyoles (Valencia),
Drip irrigation,
Cànyoles river basin (Valencia)
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Proyectos e Ingeniería Rural /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Landa Ingeniaritza eta Proiektuak Saila
Titulación
Ingeniería Agronómica /
Nekazaritza Ingeniaritza