Discussions on droughts and glaciers on the two slopes of the central Andes (28.30°- 39°). Disputes over governance objects in the context of the new climate regime.

Abstract ID: 3.13072 | Accepted as Talk | Talk | TBA | TBA

Facundo Rojas (1)
(1) Universidad Nacional de Cuyo-CONICET, UNCuyo Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, M5502-JMA Mendoza, AR

Categories: Adaptation, Culture, History, Paleoclimatology, Socio-Ecology
Keywords: Scarcity, Hidroclimatological, Environmental History, Governance

Categories: Adaptation, Culture, History, Paleoclimatology, Socio-Ecology
Keywords: Scarcity, Hidroclimatological, Environmental History, Governance

This article makes a two-dimensional comparison and analysis of droughts, social production of water scarcity and glaciers in Chile and Argentina, in the Central Andes. On the one hand, a hydrometerological description is made of six localities, three on the Chilean side and three on the Argentinean side, where there are problems with water management and governance. Secondly, we analyse how water institutions (mainly state institutions), new social movements, environmental assemblies, indigenous communities, NGOs and economic actors intervene in the debates on water scarcity, droughts, conservation and use of glaciers and Andean water resources. Objects of governance, water and glaciers in this case, are understood as an abstraction of elements of the environment (whose boundaries and characteristics are usually defined primarily by the state) to make them legible and manageable (Allan 2017; Hellgren 2022). Governance objects, in this case, refer to the abstraction of elements of the environment (whose boundaries and characteristics are defined by the state) to make them legible and, consequently, to manage them in the context of climate change processes. In Chile, the Huasco River (Huasco Province, Atacama Region); Putaendo River (Putaendo Commune, San Felipe de Aconcagua Province, Valparaíso Region) and Bio Bio River will be analysed. In Argentina the Jáchal River (San Juan); the Upper Tunuyán River (Mendoza) and Nahueve river (Neuquén). On the one hand, the percentage of glacial contribution of these rivers will be studied, but also the environmental conflict and social participation in water policies.

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