Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile)
The way of life of agricultural rural territories and their long-term capacity to adapt to changes will be challenged not only by the impacts of climate change; but by increased vulnerability stemming from previous inadequate climate adaptations and development policies. Studies that deepen understa...
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| author | Anahi Ocampo-Melgar Pilar Barria Cristian Chadwick Raúl Diaz-Vasconcellos |
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| description | The way of life of agricultural rural territories and their long-term capacity to adapt to changes will be challenged not only by the impacts of climate change; but by increased vulnerability stemming from previous inadequate climate adaptations and development policies. Studies that deepen understanding of the differential causes and implications of vulnerabilities will improve adaptation or transformation of institutions for climate change. The Aculeo basin of Central Chile suffered an extreme 10-years rainfall deficit that resulted in the disappearance of a 12 km2 lake and the economic transformation of the territory. This paper presents a cross-scale exploration of the political, cultural and historical interconnections behind this dramatic story, while critically discussing whether today’s land use configuration reflects the territory’s adaptive capacity. The story is reconstructed using land-use change analysis along with literature review and Causal-Loop Analysis. Results show how previous policies and other human factors contributed to the agroecosystem transformation, creating different vulnerabilities in different economic sectors. Today, what is observed as disparate capacities to adapt to climatic drought is actually the result of historic exacerbations of the vulnerabilities that had significantly contributed to the water scarcity crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-07a693b12dab4c73932757ff5843625e2022-12-22T03:24:08ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2022-09-011010.3389/fenvs.2022.955023955023Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile)Anahi Ocampo-Melgar0Pilar Barria1Cristian Chadwick2Raúl Diaz-Vasconcellos3Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileFacultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileFacultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Adolfo Ibáñez University, Santiago, ChileFacultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, University of Chile, Santiago, ChileThe way of life of agricultural rural territories and their long-term capacity to adapt to changes will be challenged not only by the impacts of climate change; but by increased vulnerability stemming from previous inadequate climate adaptations and development policies. Studies that deepen understanding of the differential causes and implications of vulnerabilities will improve adaptation or transformation of institutions for climate change. The Aculeo basin of Central Chile suffered an extreme 10-years rainfall deficit that resulted in the disappearance of a 12 km2 lake and the economic transformation of the territory. This paper presents a cross-scale exploration of the political, cultural and historical interconnections behind this dramatic story, while critically discussing whether today’s land use configuration reflects the territory’s adaptive capacity. The story is reconstructed using land-use change analysis along with literature review and Causal-Loop Analysis. Results show how previous policies and other human factors contributed to the agroecosystem transformation, creating different vulnerabilities in different economic sectors. Today, what is observed as disparate capacities to adapt to climatic drought is actually the result of historic exacerbations of the vulnerabilities that had significantly contributed to the water scarcity crisis.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.955023/fullvulnerabilitiesclimate adaptationruralitywater usedroughtadaptive capacity |
| spellingShingle | Anahi Ocampo-Melgar Pilar Barria Cristian Chadwick Raúl Diaz-Vasconcellos Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile) Frontiers in Environmental Science vulnerabilities climate adaptation rurality water use drought adaptive capacity |
| title | Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile) |
| title_full | Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile) |
| title_fullStr | Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile) |
| title_short | Rural transformation and differential vulnerability: Exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the Aculeo Lake basin (Chile) |
| title_sort | rural transformation and differential vulnerability exploring adaptation strategies to water scarcity in the aculeo lake basin chile |
| topic | vulnerabilities climate adaptation rurality water use drought adaptive capacity |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.955023/full |
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