Scarcity within Opulence:Water Management in the Karakoram Mountains Revisited

作     者：Hermann KREUTZMANN Hermann KREUTZMANN Centre for Development Studies,Freie Universitaet Berlin,Malteserstr.74-100,Building K,D-12249 Berlin,Germany

作者机构：Centre for Development StudiesFreie Universitaet Berlin 

出 版 物：《Journal of Mountain Science》 (山地科学学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2011年第8卷第4期

页      面：525-534页

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学科分类：081802[工学-地球探测与信息技术] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 

基　　金：grants from the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft(DFG) support from the Aga Khan Development Network(AKDN) 

主　　题：Irrigation Water management Institutions Development Hunza Valley Indus Basin Pakistan 

摘      要：Water management in general and in the Indus Basin in particular is concerned with the energy-efficient transportation of hydrologically exploitable resources from the upper zone to climatically favourable areas where irrigation helps to supersede arid conditions for the cultivation of crops and watering of *** other words:Human intervention sets the stage for the allocation of water from a wider catchment area in a smaller habitat where this resource is *** on mountain irrigation practices is counteracted with developments in the forelands where different frame conditions prevail and peculiar development problems *** dealing with the importance of water from the mountain regions three dimensions have to be evaluated:1) natural factors and their validity for the environmental frame conditions and technological adaptation processes;2) social factors and their impact on culture,economy and equitability;3) institutional factors and their importance for sustainable growth and for the implementation of development *** the study of decentralized irrigation systems in high mountain regions of the Indus Basin a systems theoretical approach values the complexity of interrelationships between different systems *** activities in arid mountain regions are restricted by limiting ecological factors and are characterized by certain utilization and adaptive strategies.