Toward integrated water and agricultural land management: Participatory design of agricultural landscapes |
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Affiliation: | 1. AGIR, Université de Toulouse, INRA, INPT, INP- EI PURPAN, 31320, Auzeville, France;2. MIAT, INRA, Université de Toulouse, Auzeville CS 52627, 31326, Castanet Tolosan, France;1. Fisheries Socioeconomic Department, Centro Tecnológico del Mar-Fundación CETMAR, Eduardo Cabello s/n, CP 36208, Vigo, Spain;2. Campus do Mar, International Campus of Excellence, Vigo, Spain;3. Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA), Lisboa, Portugal;4. The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway;5. Centre of Marine Sciences – CCMAR, University of the Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal;6. National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), Ancona, Italy;7. Matis Ltd., Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D, Reykjavik, Iceland;8. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, UK;1. Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta, Université libre de Bruxelles, Place Eugène Flagey 19, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;2. Department of Civil Engineering and Management, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands;1. INRA, UMR1069, Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France;2. Agrocampus Ouest, UMR1069, Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, F-35000 Rennes, France;3. INRA, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France;4. AgroParisTech, UMR211 Agronomie, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France |
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Abstract: | One of the great challenges of developing sustainable water management is to integrate water and land use issues, and to favor stakeholders’ involvement in the process of designing a solution to the specific issues of water basins. This study aims to help reach these objectives: we present the outcomes of a methodology that aims to design, with stakeholders of a watershed facing quantitative water management issues, alternative agricultural landscapes that they each consider as potential solutions. Our design approach combines (1) facilitation of participatory workshops for designing changes in cropping systems and their spatial distributions at the landscape level with (2) formalization of these alternatives in a GIS. The formalized alternatives provide precise information about fields, farms and areas concerned by the designed changes. We present two sample results of this methodology implemented in a 840 km2 irrigated landscape located in a water-deficient watershed in southwestern France. We discuss how our design approach may be useful for a wider design-and-assessment methodology involving researchers and stakeholders with conflicting interests. We show that our co-design approach provides fertile ground for the emergence of salient, credible and legitimate change options. |
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Keywords: | Irrigated agriculture Quantitative water management Landscape design Local knowledge |
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