The Acequia Model Local Knowledge and Sociocultural Adaptation In the Northern Rio Grande Watershed Commons

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1 José Rivera, PhD. Professor CNH Group UNM

2 José de Urru+a Map of Santa Fe ca. 1767

3 Presa at Rio Pecos ca Museum of New Mexico Photo

4 Aerial of Velarde Orchards 1986 Photo by Paul Logsdon

5 Ditch Cleaning at El Valle 1980 Photo by Alex Harris

6 Ditch Repair at El Cerrito 1998 Photo by Sharon Stewart

7 Estevan Arellano at Embudo 1995 Photo by Miguel Gandert

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12 NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems : Acequia CNH Project Characterize acequia cultural resilience, adaptability and responses to stress Input acequia social and cultural variables into the CNH System Dynamics Model Develop research monograph and mapping inventory of the Rio Chama and tributaries as a case study of society at a regional scale Partner with acequia associagons to address socio- economic impacts of changing hydrologic condigons on tradigonal water management pracgces at three study sites: Alcalde, El Rito, and Rio Hondo

13 New Mexico Acequia Associa+on: Congreso 2006

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15 NMAA Acequia Assessment Survey 2008

16 CNH Focus Groups Alcalde, El Rito, Rio Hondo Summer 2012* Acequia Governance and Water Sharing Customs Food, Seeds and Agricultural Tradi+ons Transmission of Local Knowledge Mutualism and Social Capital Land Ownership and Land Use Farming and Crops Livestock Ranching Tradi+ons and Grazing *NMAA (Quita Or+z), UNM José Rivera and Sylvia Rodríguez

17 Acequia Community Resilience Aaachment to Land and Place: Collec+ve Iden+ty Mutual Networks and Social Density Leadership of Key Individuals: Mayordomo Role Social Memory Embedded in the Culture Ecological Knowledge of Local Condi+ons Local Control of Resources Autonomy of Decision Making Structure Tipping Points and Adap+ve Capacity to Renew

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21 QualitaGve Analysis and VisualizaGon Methodology Public records, ethnographic histories, secondary theore+cal literature Archival repositories: primary source documents, archeological surveys, sociological reports, historic maps and cartography of the region Field- based ethnographies: par+cipant observa+on, focus groups and interviews Ques+onnaires and surveys: new or exis+ng data Census data and popula+on projec+ons urban and rural GIS analysis of land use and the built environment Geo- spa+al modeling of natural systems Modeling of landscape and human sealement morphology at mul+ple scales Visualiza+on tools and technology to analyze land use alterna+ves

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23 Adapted from Berkes, F., J. Colding, and C. Folke (Eds), Naviga&ng Social- Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change

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28 Acknowledgments Funding National Science Foundation Dynamics of Coupled Natural & Human Systems NMSU Award # National Science Foundation NM EPSCoR Award # Collaborators New Mexico Acequia Association Sandia National Laboratories Universities New Mexico State University University of New Mexico New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology University of Concepción, Chile

29 Photo Credits Museum of New Mexico: José de Urrutia Map of Santa Fe ca and Presa at Rio Pecos ca Paul Logsdon: Aerial of Velarde Orchards 1986 Alex Harris: Ditch Cleaning at El Valle 1980 Sharon Stewart: Ditch Repair at El Cerrito 1998 Miguel Gandert: Estevan Arellano at Embudo 1995 New Mexico Acequia Association: Congreso 2006 Terrain Models: CNH Group UNM

30 José Rivera, PhD. Professor CNH Group UNM