Water user association of the Fuente Palmera, Córdoba, Spain
Case details
- Resource system
- Watershed and associated topography
- Resource units
- Freshwater for irrigation
- Location
- Córdoba, Spain (Spain)
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Description
The Fuente y Palmera Irrigation association involves 5 municipalities (Fuente Palmera, Hornachuelos, Écija, Posadas, y Guadalcázar) in the Guadalquivir Basin, in Spain.The resource unit is surface water (mainly from Guadalquivir River). It encompasses a geographical area of 5,259 ha of irrigated land, divided in 79 groups of users. The case study spans from 1985 to 1997.
The original case study authors focused on monitoring and institutional performance. The case study has subsequently been used in comparative analyses regarding Ostrom's Design Principles (see bibliography).
Institutional analysis
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Sources
Contributors
- Ute Brady, Arizona State University
- Elicia Ratajczyk, Arizona State University
Bibliography
- (1997). Uso del agua de riego en el valle del guadalquivir: zonas del bembézar y de Fuente Palmera. La Gestión del Agua de Riego. : 99-138
- (2010). A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management. Ecology and Society. 15 (4) : 38
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(2016).
Explaining success and failure in the commons: the configural nature of Ostrom’s institutional design principles.
International Journal of the Commons.
10
(2)
: 417–439
DOI: 10.18352/ijc.634