Dissertation Research: History, Cultural Models, and Property Rights in the Emergence of Groundwater Irrigation: The Upper Valley of Cochabamba, Bolivia

论文研究：地下水灌溉兴起中的历史、文化模式和产权：玻利维亚科恰班巴上游山谷

• 批准号: 0108828
• 负责人: David Guillet
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Catholic University of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2002-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0108828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; History; Cultural; Models

This dissertation research project in cultural anthropology will examine the emergence of new forms of property rights in the recent adoption of groundwater irrigation by farmers in the Cochabamba valley of highland Bolivia. Historically farmers had used water from descending rivers and streams stored in reservoirs to irrigate their fields, but in recent times they developed the capacity to use well water. Comparable systems that have been studied at first have appeared unstructured and chaotic, but upon analysis have appeared to be products of innovation, adaptation, learning and entrepreneurial skill. The student will analyze the cultural models of property rights held by farmers as well as the transaction costs of alternative forms of property rights, study the history of institutions governing groundwater usage and use GIS and spatial analysis to identify locations and spatial systems, to analyze how local Andean property rights have adapted to a new economic strategy. The student's project will make a significant contribution by widening the "New Institutional Economics" approach to include cultural models, symbols and meaning, and will advance our understanding of high altitude irrigation systems, as well as our knowledge of this important region of the world. In addition the project contributes to the training of a young social scientist.

本论文的研究项目在文化人类学将探讨新形式的财产权的出现，在最近通过的地下水灌溉的农民在科恰班巴山谷高地玻利维亚。历史上，农民使用水库中储存的下行河流和溪流的水灌溉农田，但近年来，他们发展了使用井水的能力。最初研究过的类似系统似乎是无结构和混乱的，但经过分析，它们似乎是创新、适应、学习和创业技能的产物。 学生将分析农民持有的产权的文化模式以及产权的替代形式的交易成本，研究管理地下水使用的机构的历史，并使用GIS和空间分析来确定位置和空间系统，分析当地安第斯产权如何适应新的经济战略。学生的项目将通过扩大“新制度经济学”的方法，包括文化模式，符号和意义，并将推进我们对高海拔灌溉系统的理解，以及我们对世界这一重要地区的了解做出重大贡献。 此外，该项目还有助于培训一名青年社会科学家。