Abstract

ASTINZA, María; CUBERO MORA, Luis Pablo  and  POSADA ARRUBLA, Adriana. AGUA Y GLOBALIZACIÓN: TENSIONES Y BALANCES ASOCIADOS AL RECURSO HÍDRICO EN ECUADOR: EL CASO DE LOS PÁRAMOS DEL CANTÓN DE QUIJOS. Rev. ing. univ. Medellin [online]. 2007, vol.6, n.10, pp.39-51. ISSN 1692-3324.

In the case of Ecuador, important tensions and conflicts have emerged during the last years over the management of hydraulic resources, between hegemonic populated centers such as Quito and rural and peripheral populations where the resources have been extracted, such as the moors of the Canton of Chacos. The contrast between needs and demands emerging between a growing urban Ecuador and an in-construction rural Ecuador sets up an interesting regional and local stage: most certainly a geographical laboratory where we can witness globalization expressing itself in diverse positive and negative facets and where we are faced with the challenge to analyze and propose an equilibrium in distributing fair loads and benefits for the usage, management, and distribution of hydraulic resources.

Keywords : Globalization; water; tensions; moors; Ecuador.

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