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	ACEQUIA CULTURE: HISTORIC IRRIGATED LANDSCAPES OF NEW MEXICO
	Rivera, Jose A.; Pablo Martinez, Luis
通讯作者	Rivera, JA
来源期刊	AGRICULTURA SOCIEDAD Y DESARROLLO
ISSN	1870-5472
出版年	2009
卷号	6 期号:3 页码:311-330
英文摘要	The first Europeans who entered the upper Rio del Norte (current Rio Grande or Rio Bravo) of northern Nueva Espana (New Spain) in the sixteenth century, encountered Pueblo Indians whose Anasazi ancestors were the first horticulturalists of the region by their use of rainwater harvesting and other water control systems. Due to Spanish colonization policies, new and more expansive settlements were to be located throughout the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro from El Paso del Norte to Santa Fe in the old Provincia del Nuevo Mexico. Water from snowmelt was essential to the establishment of communities in downstream valleys where pockets of arable land were located. Here the Spanish-Mexican settlers diverted and conducted water from rivers through acequia irrigation canal systems transforming the semi-arid landscape into agrosystems that have survived into modern times as sustainable examples of the millennial culture of water of Arab, Iranian and Saharan origin that reached the New World. Economic change and State-driven hydraulic policies removed acequia diversions along the Middle Rio Grande Valley ending much of the acequia legacy in the 1930s with the establishment of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District. In recent decades the pressures of development threaten to destabilize the surviving acequia communities in Northern New Mexico and southern Colorado as they confront increased demand from municipalities, industry, recreational, and environmental uses of water. For more than four centuries the acequias have overcome other forces of change due to the solidarity of the irrigators in defense of their agrarian traditions. This article outlines the historic roots of the acequia culture and how the traditional irrigators plan to protect their traditional way of life into future generations. Sharing of knowledge and the interchange of experiences and human values with other traditional irrigation cultures around the world may offer strategies for collective action to counter the common threats.
英文关键词	Acequia culture New Mexico landscapes
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000215022700006
WOS类目	Agricultural Economics & Policy
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/329217
作者单位	[Rivera, Jose A.] Univ New Mexico, Ctr Reg Studies, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA; [Pablo Martinez, Luis] Generalitat Valenciana, Direcc Gen Patrimonio Cultural Valenciano Consell, Valencia, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rivera, Jose A.,Pablo Martinez, Luis. ACEQUIA CULTURE: HISTORIC IRRIGATED LANDSCAPES OF NEW MEXICO[J],2009,6(3):311-330.
APA	Rivera, Jose A.,&Pablo Martinez, Luis.(2009).ACEQUIA CULTURE: HISTORIC IRRIGATED LANDSCAPES OF NEW MEXICO.AGRICULTURA SOCIEDAD Y DESARROLLO,6(3),311-330.
MLA	Rivera, Jose A.,et al."ACEQUIA CULTURE: HISTORIC IRRIGATED LANDSCAPES OF NEW MEXICO".AGRICULTURA SOCIEDAD Y DESARROLLO 6.3(2009):311-330.