Contested Territories: Water Rights and the Struggles over Indigenous Livelihoods

Contested Territories: Water Rights and the Struggles over Indigenous Livelihoods

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 develop...

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Main Authors: Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte, Rossana Manosalvas, Patricio Mena, Tatinana Roa, Juana Vera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Western Ontario 2012-11-01
Series:International Indigenous Policy Journal
Subjects:
water rights
policies
politics
hydraulic megaprojects
Indigenous territories
livelihoods
culture
neoliberalism
social mobilization
Andean region
Online Access:http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1075&context=iipj

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