A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas

Gasmi Hela, Burte Julien, Passos Rodrigues Martins Eduardo Sávio, Younsi Soumaya, Morardet Sylvie, Kuper Marcel. 2024. A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas. Regional Environmental Change, 24 (12), 15 p.

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Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Géographie-Aménagement-Urbanisme-Architecture

Résumé : Rural communities often face problems of securing sustainable supply of water for drinking, domestic and agricultural uses, due to fluctuations in water availability, organizational problems maintaining collective networks, and weak connections with external actors. Using a water resilience lens, we present a participatory approach to develop an operational framework to characterize the resilience of rural water supply systems (RWSS) in communities in Northeast Brazil and Central Tunisia. An operational resilience framework was co-designed that incorporates the three key functions of a resilient RWSS, encompassing (1) the productive function: to provide water at all times, even in the case of shocks and stresses; (2) the internal regulation function: the community institutions enabling to organize water supply; and (3) the territorial integration function: the ways in which a community is integrated territorially. The operational framework gives practical content to the notion of rural water resilience by defining the features of water resilience for each function and by establishing the explanatory variables for these features at the intersection of scientific, practical, and local perspectives on rural water resilience. It provides an operational basis for building more resilient RWSSs and aims to increase the efficacy of development interventions in the field of rural water supply to build long lasting responses to shocks and stresses.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : communauté rurale, approche participative, gouvernance, zone rurale, adaptation aux changements climatiques, résilience, changement climatique, développement rural, stress dû à la sécheresse, ressource en eau, eau potable, approvisionnement en eau, politique agricole

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Brésil, Tunisie

Mots-clés libres : Water resilience, Rural water supply systems, Semi-arid, Rural communities, Participative approach, Brazil, Tunisia

Classification Agris : P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Agences de financement hors UE : Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Agence Française de Développement, Fundação Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Projets sur financement : (FRA) Pacte and Sertões

Auteurs et affiliations

• Gasmi Hela, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (FRA) - auteur correspondant
• Burte Julien, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (MAR) ORCID: 0000-0001-7912-5137
• Passos Rodrigues Martins Eduardo Sávio, FUNCEME (BRA)
• Younsi Soumaya
• Morardet Sylvie, Université de Montpellier (FRA)
• Kuper Marcel, CIRAD-ES-UMR G-EAU (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-1240-0592

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/607805/)

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