Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Understanding Robustness: Institutions, Disturbances, and Performance in Spanish Irrigation Communities

当代社会越来越多地面临共同的威胁，如污染、气候变化或市场危机，这些威胁是社会经济发展进程本身的结果，并在全球、区域和地方范围内表现出来。这种情况使人们对了解社区如何组织起来应对不同情况下的威胁产生了新的兴趣。在这方面，自然资源管理方面的研究特别富有成效。在这种情况下，本研究使用了一个大的灌溉社区位于西班牙东北部，了解如何特征的威胁，当地社区的组织方式，以及物理环境可能会提高这些community.There的鲁棒性越来越关注生态学家和政治学家之间的需要，从跨学科的角度来研究鲁棒性。该项目通过测试社会和环境变量的影响，为这一方向的理论建设做出了贡献。这项研究还有助于改善决策支持计算机程序，这些程序越来越多地用于西班牙和其他国家的水资源管理。最后，该研究提供了一份可持续性威胁和应对措施的清单，代表了世界各地许多灌溉社区的现实。该清单对其他自然资源部门的风险管理很有用，因此研究小组正在与社区和公共当局分享该清单。

Contemporary societies are increasingly exposed to common threats such as pollution, climate change, or market crises that are the result of the socioeconomic development process itself and manifest at global, regional, and local scales. This situation has generated a new interest in understanding the manner in which communities organize in response to threats in different contexts. Research in natural resource management has been particularly productive in that regard. In that vein, this research uses a large set of irrigation communities located in northeastern Spain to understand how characteristics of threats, the ways the local communities are organized, and the physical environment may enhance the robustness of those communities.There is a growing concern among ecologists and political scientists about the need to study robustness from an interdisciplinary perspective. This project contributes to theory building in that direction by testing the impact of both social and environmental variables. The research also helps improve decision-support computer programs that are increasingly used for water management in Spain and other countries. Finally, the research provides an inventory of sustainability threats and responses that represents the reality of many irrigation communities around the world. The inventory is useful for risk management in other natural resource sectors, so the research team is sharing the inventory with communities and public authorities.