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Southwestern Acequia Systems And Communities; Nurturing A Culture Of Place, Eric Romero
Southwestern Acequia Systems And Communities; Nurturing A Culture Of Place, Eric Romero
Natural Resources Journal
El Aqua es La Vida” (Water is Life) is a ubiquitous bumper sticker on trucks, mini vans and tractors in New Mexico, Colorado and the greater southwest. Besides a succinct, pithy statement for natural resource management, the maxim references a land ethic that is particularly evidenced in acequia communities. Put simply, acequias are human-constructed hydrological systems that deliver water to agricultural fields. These community-governed irrigation systems are common in southwestern states– particularly northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. However, the English connotation of ‘irrigation ditch” fails to reflect the different levels of meaning associated with these important water channels. A …
Fighting The Tragedy Of The Commons (Poem), Olivia Romo
Fighting The Tragedy Of The Commons (Poem), Olivia Romo
Natural Resources Journal
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Integrating The Law Of The Rio Chama Through Institutional Ontologies Of The Middle Rio Grande Basin, Colin Mckenzie
Integrating The Law Of The Rio Chama Through Institutional Ontologies Of The Middle Rio Grande Basin, Colin Mckenzie
Natural Resources Journal
The Law of the River is paradigmatically the legal and policy framework for river basin governance in the largely arid Western United Sates. In parsing this notoriously arcane body of law, complexity theory and jurisprudence, or the philosophy of law, are useful tools. This work develops and applies a conceptual model of the Middle Rio Grande basin as a social–ecological system in an attempt to improve understanding, transparency, and a sense of meaning of the so-called Law of the River. This project confronts the legal ecology of the “Great River” and its principle middle valley tributary, northern New Mexico’s Rio …