Whose Scarcity? The Hydrosocial Cycle and the Changing Waterscape of La Ligua River Basin, Chile

摘要: This chapter examines a conflict over water resources for irrigation in rapidly developing agricultural valley Chile’s semi-arid Norte Chico. It explores escalating demand new resources, particular groundwater, export-oriented fruit plantations, and its implications terms of management access to rights between commercial peasant farmers. Situated within the broadly defined political ecology tradition, draws on emerging theorizations human-nature relations analyze how nature is shaped by social power, discourse nature’s agency, as well conflict, attempts address it through production physical hydrological assessment, configure uneven socio-ecological outcomes at basin scale.