Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica

Community-based drinking water organizations (CBDWOs) are the most important providers of water in rural areas of the developing world. They are responsible for coping with future threats due to climate change, besides other non-climatic drivers of change such as demographic growth. The inherent cap...

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Otros Autores:	CATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
Formato:	Artículo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) 2020
Materias:	COSTA RICA ADAPTACIÓN AGUA POTABLE ORGANIZACIÓN COMUNITARIA SEQUIA ZONAS RURALES CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO CRECIMIENTO DEMOGRAFICO CAPITAL SOCIAL RECURSOS FINANCIEROS Sede Central
Acceso en línea:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9491

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spelling	RepoCATIE94912021-12-22T19:15:24Z Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica CATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza Research Program on Development, Economy and Environment COSTA RICA ADAPTACIÓN AGUA POTABLE ORGANIZACIÓN COMUNITARIA SEQUIA ZONAS RURALES CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO CRECIMIENTO DEMOGRAFICO CAPITAL SOCIAL RECURSOS FINANCIEROS Sede Central Community-based drinking water organizations (CBDWOs) are the most important providers of water in rural areas of the developing world. They are responsible for coping with future threats due to climate change, besides other non-climatic drivers of change such as demographic growth. The inherent capacities of CBDWOs to adapt to external drivers of change would be greatly conditioned by their capacities to initiate and catalyze collective processes. The rich background of CDBWOs’ actual and historical responses to drought phenomena is an essential starting point for understanding both the processes and the limitations of adapting to future adverse climatic events. In this study, we contrast six CBDWOs located in the Costa Rican dry corridor, in order to analyze their ability to self-organize coping with recent annual periodical droughts. We found that CBDWOs implement hard, soft, and ecosystem-based adaptation measures. The decisions in this regard are reactive, tend to follow a sequential order, and are context dependent. One of the main factors that facilitates capital-intensive adaptation measures is the ability of CBDWOs to mobilize internal or external financial resources, which further depends on social capital and the governance structure. 2020-08-20T20:00:25Z 2020-08-20T20:00:25Z 2015 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9491 en Journal of Water and Climate change Volumen 6, Number 4 (April 2015), pages 831–847 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
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language	Inglés
topic	COSTA RICA ADAPTACIÓN AGUA POTABLE ORGANIZACIÓN COMUNITARIA SEQUIA ZONAS RURALES CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO CRECIMIENTO DEMOGRAFICO CAPITAL SOCIAL RECURSOS FINANCIEROS Sede Central
spellingShingle	COSTA RICA ADAPTACIÓN AGUA POTABLE ORGANIZACIÓN COMUNITARIA SEQUIA ZONAS RURALES CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO CRECIMIENTO DEMOGRAFICO CAPITAL SOCIAL RECURSOS FINANCIEROS Sede Central Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
description	Community-based drinking water organizations (CBDWOs) are the most important providers of water in rural areas of the developing world. They are responsible for coping with future threats due to climate change, besides other non-climatic drivers of change such as demographic growth. The inherent capacities of CBDWOs to adapt to external drivers of change would be greatly conditioned by their capacities to initiate and catalyze collective processes. The rich background of CDBWOs’ actual and historical responses to drought phenomena is an essential starting point for understanding both the processes and the limitations of adapting to future adverse climatic events. In this study, we contrast six CBDWOs located in the Costa Rican dry corridor, in order to analyze their ability to self-organize coping with recent annual periodical droughts. We found that CBDWOs implement hard, soft, and ecosystem-based adaptation measures. The decisions in this regard are reactive, tend to follow a sequential order, and are context dependent. One of the main factors that facilitates capital-intensive adaptation measures is the ability of CBDWOs to mobilize internal or external financial resources, which further depends on social capital and the governance structure.
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author_facet	CATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
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title	Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
title_short	Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
title_full	Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
title_fullStr	Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed	Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica
title_sort	adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in costa rica
publisher	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
publishDate	2020
url	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9491
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Adaptive capacity, drought and the performance of community-based drinking water organizations in Costa Rica

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