Water Politics: Governance, Conflict, and Vulnerability in Andean Peru

摘要: Peru is facing serious social and environmental water challenges. Experts policy makers are trying to better understand the economic impacts of an increasing rate glacial melt a consequential prospect scarcity. Currently there great deal strain put on resources originating from Andean because these sustain most growth taking place at coastal desert. At same time, country’s neoliberal development policies changing management such as water. The gradual expansion extractive industries along with growing influence nonstate actors introducing new discursive representations environment facilitating important changes in spatial, administrative, political relations governing nature. Among prominent recent restructuring efforts Peruvian institutional legal structure for governance. In this context, forms access, control, exploitation Andes have become more contested than ever. This thesis explores struggle Paron, one communities. decadelong perfectly demonstrates how local groups, government agencies, private corporation negotiate their access organizational structures, arrangements, decision-making processes shape shaped by use, management, regulation conflictive environment. Particularly, it analyzes politics informs consequentially affects resource. But also, given uniqueness conflict, further incorporates risk vulnerability factor its analysis. While conflict comprises socioeconomic, political, historical, cultural, components struggles Peru, also presents very unique characteristics. source managed not only downstream but mitigation. As such, examines governance co-produced For this, I explore specific moments or instances – flows technology, institutions, discourses, negotiations that recognize embodying relationship. analysis, pay special attention impact technologies. argue new, convoluted, form introduced watershed hydropower technology created set reinforce upon users, producing transformation vulnerability. Water Politics: Governance, Conflict, Vulnerability Flavia Rey de Castro Pastor B.S. University North Alabama, 2006