Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation

Autores
Montaña, Elma Carmen; Diaz, Harry Polo
Año de publicación
2011
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inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
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Expected changes in climate and hydrology in Latin American drylands are likely to affect drinking and irrigation water availability, threatening productive systems and the subsistence of some rural dwellers. Research on the vulnerability of rural communities in watershed basins of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile have shown that drought and diminishing river flows would compromise the wellbeing of the smallest producers of these socio-ecological systems, who are already affected by other stressors, such as globalization, restricted fiscal policies and long established situations of poverty and inequity. Thus, it seems that global environmental change threatens the survival of specific agricultural development models, not those that are more integrated to the agribusiness processes but rather the subordinated, traditional models based on small-scale production and tightly connected to natural cycles. Along with their decline, traditional testimonies and practices related to these models would be lost, including their interpretative schemes and rationales based on values and worldviews different from the prevailing development model. The paper argues that these social and cultural capital losses would entail a drawback in the achievement of development goals?especially for those locally inspired,and that subordinate development models constitute, in themselves, a heritage worth to be preserved. In addition to linking global environmental change to culture loss and to the development processes, the paper suggests the necessity of rethinking the ethics of conservation to promote a new multiculturality paradigm that values small scale productive and lifestyles and understands its connections with nature.
Fil: Montaña, Elma Carmen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Diaz, Harry Polo. University of Regina; Canadá
Materia
Vulnerability
Drylands
Development Models
Conservation
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
title Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
spellingShingle Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
Montaña, Elma Carmen
Vulnerability
Drylands
Development Models
Conservation
title_short Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
title_full Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
title_fullStr Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
title_full_unstemmed Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
title_sort Global Environmental Change, Culture and Development: Rethinking the Ethics of Conservation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Montaña, Elma Carmen
Diaz, Harry Polo
author Montaña, Elma Carmen
author_facet Montaña, Elma Carmen
Diaz, Harry Polo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Vulnerability
Drylands
Development Models
Conservation
topic Vulnerability
Drylands
Development Models
Conservation
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.9
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Expected changes in climate and hydrology in Latin American drylands are likely to affect drinking and irrigation water availability, threatening productive systems and the subsistence of some rural dwellers. Research on the vulnerability of rural communities in watershed basins of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile have shown that drought and diminishing river flows would compromise the wellbeing of the smallest producers of these socio-ecological systems, who are already affected by other stressors, such as globalization, restricted fiscal policies and long established situations of poverty and inequity. Thus, it seems that global environmental change threatens the survival of specific agricultural development models, not those that are more integrated to the agribusiness processes but rather the subordinated, traditional models based on small-scale production and tightly connected to natural cycles. Along with their decline, traditional testimonies and practices related to these models would be lost, including their interpretative schemes and rationales based on values and worldviews different from the prevailing development model. The paper argues that these social and cultural capital losses would entail a drawback in the achievement of development goals?especially for those locally inspired,and that subordinate development models constitute, in themselves, a heritage worth to be preserved. In addition to linking global environmental change to culture loss and to the development processes, the paper suggests the necessity of rethinking the ethics of conservation to promote a new multiculturality paradigm that values small scale productive and lifestyles and understands its connections with nature.
Fil: Montaña, Elma Carmen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza. Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Diaz, Harry Polo. University of Regina; Canadá
description Expected changes in climate and hydrology in Latin American drylands are likely to affect drinking and irrigation water availability, threatening productive systems and the subsistence of some rural dwellers. Research on the vulnerability of rural communities in watershed basins of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile have shown that drought and diminishing river flows would compromise the wellbeing of the smallest producers of these socio-ecological systems, who are already affected by other stressors, such as globalization, restricted fiscal policies and long established situations of poverty and inequity. Thus, it seems that global environmental change threatens the survival of specific agricultural development models, not those that are more integrated to the agribusiness processes but rather the subordinated, traditional models based on small-scale production and tightly connected to natural cycles. Along with their decline, traditional testimonies and practices related to these models would be lost, including their interpretative schemes and rationales based on values and worldviews different from the prevailing development model. The paper argues that these social and cultural capital losses would entail a drawback in the achievement of development goals?especially for those locally inspired,and that subordinate development models constitute, in themselves, a heritage worth to be preserved. In addition to linking global environmental change to culture loss and to the development processes, the paper suggests the necessity of rethinking the ethics of conservation to promote a new multiculturality paradigm that values small scale productive and lifestyles and understands its connections with nature.
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