Urbanizing rural waters : Rural-urban water transfers and the reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Lima
Urbanizing rural waters : Rural-urban water transfers and the reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Lima
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农村水域城市化：利马城乡供水和水社会领土的重新配置
DOI：
10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.12.002
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
R. Boelens
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作者：
Lena Hommes;R. Boelens
本文研究了利马地区(秘鲁)的城市化进程和相关的城乡调水如何创建水控制等级，使城市饮用水公司、水电站和农村社区处于不平等的地位。通过对利马地区调水和水电开发历史的考察，本文展示了工程的优越性、国家发展需要发电的需要、引水的泻湖之地的落后以及利马所希望的水资源丰富的想象力，这些都是如何在水利工程中体现出来的。这些水力网不仅是向利马市供水的技术手段，还得到法律、体制和金融治理技术的支持；对农村和城市用水用户产生不同的物质、社会象征和政治影响。虽然已建立的系统意味着水电和饮用水公司的用水控制和使用，但它意味着对农村社区的依赖和/或被排除在利益之外。更具体地说，除了直接夺取水资源的问题外，所感知的不公正涉及与水有关的利益的分配、自治的丧失以及领土变革的社会环境影响。
This article studies how urbanization processes and associated rural-urban water transfers in the Lima region (Peru) create water control hierarchies that align the municipal drinking water company, hydropower plants and rural communities on unequal positions. By scrutinizing the history of water transfers and hydropower development in the Lima region, the paper shows how imaginaries about the superiority of engineering, the need to generate electricity for national development, the backwardness of the ‘land of lagoons’ where water is diverted from, and about wished-for water abundance in Lima, all became manifested in hydraulic megaprojects. More than technical means to supply water to Lima City, these hydraulic grids, supported by legal, institutional and financial governance techniques; produce diverging material, social-symbolic and political effects for rural and urban water users. While the established system means water control and access for hydropower and drinking water companies, it implies dependence and/or exclusion from the benefits for rural communities. More specifically and beyond questions of outright water grabbing, perceived injustices involve the distribution of water-related benefits, loss of autonomy, and the socio-environmental impacts of territorial transformations.