New debates on scales in the water policy: State, Hydrographic basins and Autonomous Communities in Spain

Authors

  • Leandro del Moral Ituarte
  • Nuria Hernández-Mora Zapata

Keywords:

Scale policies, spatial adjustment, hydrographic basin, water management, basin organisms

Abstract

This article synthesises the state of the art under discussion on the scale policies in water
management. With this background, the legal, territorial and organisational evolution of the basin
organisms in Spain are reviewed from their creation with the name Confederaciones Sindicales
Hidrográficas (Hydrographic Syndicated Confederations) in 1926 until their situation in 2015, in the
light of the current critical approaches to the consideration of the basin as a unquestionable unit
for water management. The authors maintain that, when ‘spatial adjustment’ of the management
of natural resources is discussed, special attention must be given to the changes in the social
relationships and the power structures which each option entails in its specific historical and
geographical context.

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Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

Moral Ituarte, L. del, & Hernández-Mora Zapata, N. (2016). New debates on scales in the water policy: State, Hydrographic basins and Autonomous Communities in Spain. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 48(190), 563–583. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76504

Issue

Vol. XLVIII, núm. 190 (2016)

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2016 Leandro del Moral Ituarte, Nuria Hernández-Mora Zapata

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