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PES hydrosocial territories: de-territorialization and re-patterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands

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  • Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco
  • Rutgerd Boelens

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This article explores how payment for environmental services (PES) approaches envision, design and actively constitute new hydro-social territories by reconfiguring local water control arenas. PES aims to conserve watershed ecosystems by repatterning and commoditizing the link between ‘water service providers’ upstream and ‘water consuming’ populations downstream. Two case illustrations from the Ecuadorian highlands are used to clarify how PES implementation -- though presented as if it were apolitical and neutral -- weakens locally crafted hydrosocial territories in favour of dominant interests. If consolidated, this depoliticized PES implementation fosters the consolidation of new (market-environmentalist) territories, subjects and interactions, further marginalizing the less powerful upstream communities’ livelihood strategies.

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  • Jean Carlo Rodríguez-de-Francisco & Rutgerd Boelens, 2016. "PES hydrosocial territories: de-territorialization and re-patterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands," Water International, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(1), pages 140-156, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rwinxx:v:41:y:2016:i:1:p:140-156
    DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2016.1129686
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    1. Rossana Manosalvas & Jaime Hoogesteger & Rutgerd Boelens, 2023. "Imaginaries of place in territorialization processes: Transforming the Oyacachi páramos through nature conservation and water transfers in the Ecuadorian highlands," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(5), pages 1010-1028, August.
    2. Jichuan Sheng & Xiao Han, 2023. "Constructing payments for ecosystem services hydrosocial territories through assemblage practices: China’s Xin’an river basin eco-compensation pilot," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(2), pages 375-391, March.
    3. Sarah Rogers & Mark Wang, 2020. "Producing a Chinese hydrosocial territory: A river of clean water flows north from Danjiangkou," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(7-8), pages 1308-1327, November.
    4. Lliso, Bosco & Pascual, Unai & Engel, Stefanie & Mariel, Petr, 2020. "Payments for ecosystem services or collective stewardship of Mother Earth? Applying deliberative valuation in an indigenous community in Colombia," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).

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