Local Irrigation and the State: Spain and Peru

该项目支持一位文化人类学家对西班牙小型灌溉系统的研究。该项目将研究西班牙山区和低地的系统，与之前对秘鲁高地和低地灌溉系统的研究进行比较。该项目将利用借鉴“专家系统”计算机模型的方法，创建小型灌溉系统管理模型。该模型根据冲突和管理决策的具体案例构建，将揭示针对该案例的潜在价值和约束。然后将该模型与适合秘鲁灌溉系统的模型进行比较，以便将海拔高度的影响与文化历史的影响分开。这项研究很重要，因为小型灌溉系统是资源管理的自然模型，通常会在一段时间内发挥作用。在当前人们关注全球保护和环境退化的世界中，这种自然演变的管理系统的案例研究可以产生有价值的见解，以帮助规划者设计其他资源领域的管理系统。

This project supports the research of a cultural anthropologist studying small-scale irrigation systems in Spain. The project will study systems in the mountains and in the lowlands of Spain, to compare with a previous study of a highland and lowland irrigation system in Peru. Using a methodology borrowed from "expert system" computer models, the project will create a model of small-scale irrigation system management. Built from specific cases of conflict and management decisions, the model will reveal the underlying values and constraints operating on this case. The model will then be compared with that fitting the Peruvian irrigation systems, in order to separate the influences attributable to altitude from those attributable to cultural history. This research is important because small scale irrigation systems are natural models of resource management that have usually worked over periods of time. In a world where there is current concern about global conservation and environmental degradation, this sort of case study of a naturally evolved management system can yield valuable insights to help planners design management systems for other resource domains.