Norias, boreholes and the role of the state during the groundwater ‘silent revolution’ in La Mancha, Spain

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dc.creatorClosas, Alvar
dc.date2014-08
dc.date2015-03-17T14:39:52Z
dc.date2015-03-17T14:39:52Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:39:08Z
dc.descriptionThe ‘silent revolution’ is a phenomenon describing the individualistic behaviour of farmers in the adoption of intensive groundwater abstraction technologies, which in some cases has led to groundwater over-abstraction and environmental degradation in semiarid areas such as La Mancha, Spain. However, a lacuna exists as to the extent to which state politics have affected the development of groundwater abstraction technologies in Spain. With new quantitative and qualitative data from the irrigation community of Manzanares and public irrigation and colonisation plans, this report studies the adoption of groundwater abstraction technology and investigates the historical role of the state in the development of modern groundwater-fed irrigation socio-ecologies in the semiarid area of La Mancha in Spain.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/58372
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/161772
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceClosas, Alvar. 2014. Norias, boreholes and the role of the state during the groundwater ‘silent revolution’ in La Mancha, Spain. Hydrogeology Journal, 22(5):1179-1192. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-014-1118-0
dc.subjectgroundwater extraction
dc.subjectgroundwater development
dc.subjectboreholes
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectenvironmental degradation
dc.subjectsemiarid zones
dc.subjectirrigation
dc.subjectaquifers
dc.subjectwells
dc.subjectsubsidies
dc.subjectwetlands
dc.subjectcase studies
dc.titleNorias, boreholes and the role of the state during the groundwater ‘silent revolution’ in La Mancha, Spain
dc.typeJournal Article

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