TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tekken, Vera
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Climate-Driven or Human-Induced indicating severe water scarcity in the Moulouya River Basin (Morocco)
JF  - Water
N2  - Many agriculture-based economies are increasingly under stress from climate change and socio-economic pressures. The excessive exploitation of natural resources still represents the standard procedure to achieve socio-economic development. In the area of the Moulouya river basin, Morocco, natural water availability represents a key resource for all economic activities. Agriculture represents the most important sector, and frequently occurring water deficits are aggravated by climate change. On the basis of historical trends taken from CRU TS 2.1, this paper analyses the impact of climate change on the per capita water availability under inclusion of population trends. The Climatic Water Balance (CWB) shows a significant decrease for the winter period, causing adverse effects for the main agricultural season. Further, moisture losses due to increasing evapotranspiration rates indicate problems for the annual water budget and groundwater recharge. The per capita blue water availability falls below a minimum threshold of 500 m(3) per year, denoting a high regional vulnerability to increasing water scarcity assuming a no-response scenario. Regional development focusing on the water-intense sectors of agriculture and tourism appears to be at risk. Institutional capacities and policies need to address the problem, and the prompt implementation of innovative water production and efficiency measures is recommended.
KW  - North Africa
KW  - Moulouya river basin
KW  - climate change
KW  - population growth
KW  - regional development
KW  - water availability
KW  - water management
KW  - water scarcity
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/w4040959
SN  - 2073-4441
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SP  - 959
EP  - 982
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lange, Bastian
A1  - Bürkner, Hans-Joachim
T1  - Ambiguous avant-gardes and their geographies
BT  - on blank spots of the postgrowth debate
JF  - Die Erde : journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin ; Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin
N2  - In the following article, the focus is on the transformative potentials created by so-called persistence avant-gardes and prevention innovators. The text extends Bluhdorn's guiding concept of narratives of hope (Bluhdorn 2017; Bluhdorn and Butzlaff 2019) by considering those groups that are marginalized within debates on socio-ecological transformation. With a closer look at the narratives of prevention and blockade that these actors engage, the ambiguous nature of postgrowth avant-gardes is carved out. Their discursive, argumentative, and effective inhibition of transitory policies is interpreted as a pro-active potential, rather than a mere obstacle to socio-ecological transformation. Adding a geographical perspective, the paper pleads for a more precise theoretical penetration of the ambivalent figure of avantgardes when analyzing processes of local and regional postgrowth.
N2  - Mit dem Beitrag richten wir den Fokus auf transformative Potenziale, die von sogenannten Beharrungsavantgar-den  und  Präventionsinnovatoren  ausgehen.  Der  Text  erweitert  Blühdorns  Leitkonzept  der  Hoffnungsnarrative  (Blühdorn 2017; Blühdorn and Butzlaff 2019), indem er jene Gruppen in den Blick nimmt, die in den Debatten um die sozial-ökologische Transformation marginalisiert werden. Mit einem genaueren Blick auf die Präventions- und Blockade-Narrative dieser Akteure wird die Mehrdeutigkeit der Postwachstumsavantgarden herausgear-beitet. Ihre diskursive, argumentative und effektive Verhinderung transitorischer Politiken wird als proaktives Potenzial und nicht als bloßes Hindernis für eine sozial-ökologische Transformation interpretiert. Unter Hinzu-nahme  einer  geographischen  Perspektive  plädiert  der  Beitrag  für  eine  präzisere  theoretische  Durchdringung  der ambivalenten Figur der Avantgarden bei der Analyse lokaler und regionaler Postwachstumsvorgänge.
KW  - alternative economies
KW  - transformative policies
KW  - change agents
KW  - postgrowth
KW  - regional development
KW  - East Germany
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2021-566
SN  - 0013-9998
VL  - 152
IS  - 4
SP  - 273
EP  - 287
PB  - Gesellschaft für Erdkunde
CY  - Berlin
ER  -