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Large-scale Irrigation Impacts Socio-cultural Values: An Example from Rural Navarre, Spain

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  • Albizua, Amaia
  • Pascual, Unai
  • Corbera, Esteve

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Large-scale irrigation is a form of agricultural intensification aimed at increasing productivity and adapting to climate change. However, we know little about how large-scale irrigation affects socio-cultural values over nature's contributions to people (NCP) in agrarian systems. In this article, we fill this gap by investigating how a large-scale irrigation project in Navarre, Spain, has affected farmers' values in relation to their farming systems and the local environment. We find that large-scale farmers who participate in the irrigation project value more highly regulating NCP than small-scale farmers who have not adopted such technology, while the latter hold higher values for non-material NCP related to cultural identity and traditional knowledge and experience. These findings suggest that the adoption of large-scale irrigation technology is associated with a set of values that underestimate the long-term ecological effects of agricultural intensification and neglect the relevance of traditional farming in sustaining more ecologically and culturally diverse landscapes.

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  • Albizua, Amaia & Pascual, Unai & Corbera, Esteve, 2019. "Large-scale Irrigation Impacts Socio-cultural Values: An Example from Rural Navarre, Spain," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 159(C), pages 354-361.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolec:v:159:y:2019:i:c:p:354-361
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.017
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