Are generic and specific adaptation institutions always relevant? An archetype analysis of drought adaptation in Spanish irrigation systems
Villamayor Tomás, Sergio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Iniesta Arandia, Irene (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Roggero, Matteo (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Data:	2020
Resum:	The conditions that contribute to institutional robustness of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) regimes are well understood; however, there is much less systematic evidence regarding whether and how CBNRM regimes adapt to changing environments. We address this question by exploring drought adaptation of 37 irrigation associations in northern Spain. For this purpose, we adopt the distinction between "generic" and "specific adaptation institutions" and explore whether and how these institutions combine across different types of irrigation systems. We obtained data from a survey delivered to the 37 associations, governmental records, and interviews with representatives of the associations and public officials. We then used hierarchical cluster analysis to classify the irrigation systems into types, followed by qualitative comparative analysis to explore associations between the adaptation institutions and drought adaptation across the types of systems. According our results, CBNRM regimes adapt to droughts through different combinations of institutions (i. e. , different paths to drought adaptation). However, specific adaptation institutions such as water transfers are more relevant during droughts (i. e. , to allocate scarcity), whereas generic adaptation institutions such as monitoring and collective choice arrangements play a role both during and in the aftermath of droughts (i. e. , to build compliance with and redesign specific adaptation institutions). Also, we did not find an alignment between the two types of institutions and types of irrigation system; however, one type of system (i. e. , the "Asian" type) shows a larger number of drought adaptation paths than the other (i. e. , the "American" type).
Ajuts:	Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación RYC-2017-22782 Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades IJCI-2017-33405 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MDM-2015-0552
Nota:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Adaptation ; Archetype analysis ; Common-pool resources ; Drought ; Hierarchical cluster analysis ; Irrigation ; Qualitative comparative analysis ; Water user associations
Publicat a:	Ecology and society, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (March 2020) , art. 32, ISSN 1708-3087

DOI: 10.5751/ES-11329-250132

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