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Dear colleagues,
you find below our call for abstracts for a challenging workshop at the
next European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, which will take place
in Trondheim (Norway) next June (25-28/6/2019).
Through the lens of "multifunctional ponds", we'll discuss how water (and
land) management and governance are key issues to address rural/urban
environmental conflicts within the context of climate change.
*Our workshop is meant to be multi-disciplinary and open to policymakers
and practitioners.*
*Deadline: 10th January 2019*
Link to submit your abstract: https://esrs2019.no/calls/call-for-abstracts/
*MULTIFUNCTIONAL PONDS: IRRIGATION, WATER SECURITY AND ECO-ENJOYING IN
RURAL PERSPECTIVE*
Convenors: Giorgio Osti, University of Trieste, Italy,
[log in to unmask] and Fabio Carnelli, Independent researcher and
consultant, Italy, [log in to unmask]
Climate change and intense urbanisation call for a new balance between land
and water, cities and countryside. The hydraulic systems thought for
protecting towns from floods and ensuring water for farmers need for new
configurations. A complex system of multifunctional ponds and multiscale
ditches (water network) are necessary for facing the climate change. Rural
areas are asked to increase their capacity to keep water for several
purposes: irrigation, water security and safety, people enjoyment and
wetland protection. Such a task has distributional effects (more land for
water), requires new coordination among landowners, inter-sectorial actions
of public administration, agreements with city-users.
The WG aims to collect papers and research focused on this complex task,
summarised in the ‘multifunctional ponds’ catchphrase. The theoretical
perspective is double: spatial scale analysis and social relations. Two
research traditions appear pertinent: on one side, the geographical
approach aiming at showing the conflicts and injustices caused by water
privatisation and, on the other, the network approach showing how public
agencies and third sector organisations are creating new political
arrangements. Thus, new politics of water in the wider context of climate
change are emerging.
The objects of research to be presented in WG are several:
- construction of big detention basins
- small scale ditches systems both for irrigation and water security
- plants purification tanks for sewage treatment
- creation or re-creation of wetlands and nature-based solutions for
water safety and security
- farmers/citizens’ agreements for multifunctional uses of water
- popular epidemiology and new water related diseases (e.g. legionella)
- rural knowledge for mitigating urban flood risk
- improvement of small scale irrigation systems in Ostrom’s style
- integration of digital systems with direct observation-action of local
people or farmers
- farmers’ involvement and risk awareness in controlled flooding,
preparedness, surveillance
- interfaces between mini-hydropower plants and other ponds’ functions.
Format: Traditional workshop: 3-4 papers presented by authors in advance of
opening to the floor for Q&As and wider discussion. With the collaboration
of Angel Paniagua, CSIC, Spain and the ESRS Study Group ‘More Land for
Water’, http://www.ruralsociology.eu/?p=600.
--
Fabio Carnelli, PhD
*Independent researcher and consultant* in DRR and social sciences.
*Polis Lombardia
<http://www.polis.lombardia.it/wps/portal/site/polis>, *Consultant
for the implementation of Social and Health Training at Regional Level
(Milan, Italy)
*Il lavoro culturale*
<http://www.lavoroculturale.org/category/focus/sismografie/>, Editor and
Cultural Anthropologist (Siena, Italy)
Linkedin profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-carnelli-937758a1/>
Researchgate profile <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabio_Carnelli>
Latest publications:
- Capturing the multiple benefits associated with nature-based solutions:
lessons from a natural flood management project in the Cotswolds, UK
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ldr.3205>, C. Short, L.
Clarke, F. Carnelli, C. Uttley, B. Smith, *Land Degradation & Development*,
1-12.
- Social media and disaster governance: Twitter use in recent floods in
Italy
<https://www.routledge.com/Governance-of-Risk-Hazards-and-Disasters-Trends-in-theory-and-Practice/Forino-Bonati-Calandra/p/book/9781138206823>,
F. Carnelli and G. Anselmi. In: G. Forino, S. Bonati, L. Calandra
(eds.) *Governance
of Risk, Hazards and Disasters. **Trends in Theory and Practice*,
Routledge, London, 2018.
- Spatiotemporal Pattern of Social Vulnerability in Italy
<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-018-0168-7>, I. Frigerio,
F. Carnelli, M. Cabinio, M. de Amicis, *International Journal of Disaster
Risk Science*, 2018.
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