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LA RESPONSABILITÀ SOCIALE DELL'UNIVERSITÀ. TERRITORIO,
COOPERAZIONE, IMPATTO SOCIALE
Co-researching and learning with stakeholders in
search of systemic innovation for sustainable
agricultural development and water governance
Research questions
• How to deconstruct the complexity of the water
conflicts through «dialogical tools» to facilitate
social learning amongst interdependent
stakeholders? Toderi et al 2007 Environ Sci Policy
• How to mediate polarized positions between:
• local entrepreneurs of a wealthy but (nitrate and more)
polluted area
• public administrators responsible of the Nitrate directive
implementation
• economic development vs polluting emissions
• side effects on other sectors (eg. fisheries)
The ingredients
• A funded project on «climate adaptation
e water governance» with a specific
budget for dissemination
• 10 years co-researching with
stakeholders on water, agriculture,
nitrates and climate change in a NVZ
• Cooperativa Produttori (Producers)
• Cooperativa Pescatori (Fishermen)
• Amministratori (Administrators)
• Environment and Agriculture regional
Agencies
• Water institutions…
• An interdisciplinary analysis of water
governance in Sardinia, special focus on
Agriculture (70% of water stocks used)
Theory informed practice The four Cadwago pillars: • System’s socio-ecologic components • Climate change adaptive capacity of local institutions and organizations • Relational practices of systemic governance • Governance learning Identification of barriers and opportunities for the development of effective governance practices Upscaling to other contexts
The idea • A beer with a creative friend in piazza Tola at Sassari • The honorary judge friend’s friend, son of an «omu di mezzu» and author of the book «La Rasgioni in Gallura» • A story to tell
http://rasgioni.strikingly.com/
Pier Paolo Roggero
Nucleo di Ricerca sulla Desertificazione e Dipartimento di Agraria
Università di Sassari
The format Characters - The mediator (Omu di mezu) - Two representatives of the parties (Alligadori) - The witnesses (entrepreneurs vs administrators) - The jury (Rasgiunanti, Cadwago researchers) - The public (citizens of Arborea, the NVZ) The trial - Omu di mezzu chaired the session - A 10’ video synthetized the stakeholders’ witnesses - Alligadori supported witnesses to speak - The song of Arborea - «Abali andemmu a magna’» a good dinner together - Omu di mezzu postulates the «Dizisa» o l’«Arrangiu» - The song of Arborea
La Rasgioni ad Arborea Witnesses of institutions 15/10/2015 - Mayor of Arborea - Chair of Water governing Authority in Sardinia (EGAS) - Regional water agency in Sardegna (ENAS) - Environmental agency of Sardinia (ARPAS) - Province of Oristano - Land reclamation and water managing organization - Pro Loco (local tourist agency) - Regional Councillor for Agriculture - Engineer from the regional advisory service - Witnesses of entrepreneurs - Director of the Producers cooperative - Director of the dairy factory - Representative of fisheries cooperative (muscles and shells) - Local President of the Bird Protection league LIPU - Uni Prof and member of Administration Committee of the dairy coop - President of the local Agronomy Practitioner Association in Oristano - Rice grower - Livestock breeder
La Rasgioni della siccità Sassari 16/6/2017 Witnesses of institutions - Abbanoa - DG Ente Acque Sardegna (ENAS) - Environmental agency ARPAS - Mayor of Sassari - Presidente Consorzi di bonifica - Civil engineering state agency - Regional Councillor - Uni prof of Environmental Hygene Civil Society - Local farmer - Local shepherd - Priest from local jail - Chair of environmentalist association - Representative from supermarkets - Vineyard grower (Sella & Mosca) - Farmers Unions Coldiretti CIA e Confagricoltura Rasgiunanti - teachers from 4 Egyptian Universities (Erasmus+ Ilham)
Hot topics – «La Rasgioni della siccità»
(Ruiu et al 2017, Water: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/4/297)
• The problem is not just drought: but the way complexity is addressed
Numbers:
• Averages (mm/year), rain: 600; ETo: 1100; 2017: 286 prec 1200 ETo
• Water stock almost all from reservoirs: eutrophication
• 2 Billions m3 stock capacity
• More than 50% losses in the waterworks: Sassari province is 3rd/110 in Italy (61%)
• Input water quality at water purifiers worse than output water at sewage treatment
• Agriculture 70% water consumed; Civil uses 30%; Industrial 0%
• Wastewater recycling constrained by norms
• Tap water not drinkable for more than 50% of the days in Sassari area (250.000 inhab.)
Pier Paolo • Hi potential adaptive capacity: centralized governance and links between reservoirs
Roggero
ppr@uniss.it
• Climate change: higher risk of algal blooms in reservoirs, less quality, higher water
consumption for irrigation,
https://en.uniss.it/nrdhttp://dryproject.co.uk/tag/the-reasons/
‘Think Water': Storytelling for the future of
Peterborough and the Fens
https://youtu.be/xn424cPjjTQ
https://youtu.be/hjBO4cNUOJELessons learned…
(Ruiu et al 2017, Water: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/4/297)
• Participation was above expectations: informal learning spaces are missing
• Normative and institutional system is crucial. Formal and informal institutions
• Unbalanced power relationships among stakeholders: new spaces opened for the least
• Conflicts between public institutions are sharper than wih civil society
• Few stakeholders are aware of climate change threats
• Unwritten normative systems are effective in addressing environmental issues
• Awareness about interdependencies among stakeholders improved
• More public-private partnership is needed to address complex issues such as those on
water governance
• More faclitated spaces needed, to learn and integrate scientific and lay knowledge and
design «conducive interfaces»
Pier Paolo
Roggero • Command-control processes fo not work
ppr@uniss.it • Research mode 2 sensu Ison et al 2011 Water Res Manage (reflexive, constructivist, systemic) can
https://en.uniss.it/nrdeffectively support the mediation of environmental conflictsFuture perpectives
• New project proposal emerged
• Life with Comune di Milano, Erasmus+ with Loughborough University, PRIMA SUSTAIN-COAST
• Systasis Association on Environmental conflict mediation: Cariplo Foundation
• Applications to other domains of environmental conflicts and contexts:
• designing climate change adaptation strategies (SRACC – Sardinia)
• conflicts on the management of coppices
• wildfire prevention and management
• permanent grasslands management and conservation
• Mainstreaming of «good practices» in the adaptation dell’adattamento al cambiamento
climatico (SRACC e PNACC)
Pier Paolo • Use of such approaches in academic teaching
Roggero
ppr@uniss.it
https://en.uniss.it/nrdde - FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo - animal products along the East African Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate change
FRAMEWORK
Fluoride in groundwater of the East African Rift System (EARS )
WHO limits for fluoride in drinking water 1,5 mg/L
High fluoride concentrations have been detected in surface and groundwater within East Africa:
•Ethiopia 1.3–300 mg/L (Gizaw, 1996; Alemayehu et al., 2006, Tekle-Haimanot et al., 2006,
Ayenew, 2008)
•Kenya up to 180 mg/L (Nair et al., 1984; Gaciri and Davies, 1993),
• N Tanzania up to 70 mg/L (Ghiglieri et al. 2010, 2012); 437 mg/L (Kilham and Hecky, 1973)
H2020 and 12–690 mg/L (Nanyaro et al., 1984)www.floweredproject.org
de - FLuoridation technologies for
imprOving quality of WatEr and agRo -
animal products along the East African Rift
Valley in the context of aDaptation to
climate change
Consortium as a whole
H2020FRAMEWORK Sources of fluoride
Lithology: alkaline volcanic rocks of East Africa are richer in F
than analogous rocks in other parts of the world (Gerasimovskiy
and Savinova, 1969).
Past and present volcanic
activity Hydrotermalism
Recent volcanic eruptions
Evaporation from alkaline Precipitation of fluorine-rich minerals both in salt crust and
lakes hardpan (trona) deriving from supersatured alkaline waters
Anthropogenic and other Negligible
sources
Fluoride concentration in groundwater is related to
•Temperature; pH;
•Solubility of fluorine-bearing minerals;
•Anion exchange between hydroxyl and F ions;
•water residence time.
Water-rock interaction exacerbated by heat anomaly
H2020www.floweredproject.org
Objective
The overall objective of the
project is to contribute to the
development of a sustainable
water management system in
areas affected by fluoride
contamination in water, soils
and food with the aim of
improving the living standards
of local population.
Call “WATER-5-2014/2015:
strengthening international R&I
cooperation in the field of water”,
namely to the topic “WATER 5c) [2015]
Development of water supply and
sanitation technology, systems and
tools, and/or methodologies”.The F.l.o.w.e.r.e.d. project
de-FLuoridation technologies for imprOving quality of
WatEr and agRo-animal products along the East African
Rift Valley in the context of aDaptation to climate
change.
....Among the main objectives :
to study the fluoride contamination of irrigation water
and cultivated soils… in relation to climate change
- agricultural practices;
- irrigation water quality.
fluoride plant uptake capacity, its partitioning
into plant components and effects on crop
productivity.
…assess the impacts on agricultural productswww.floweredproject.org Issues -environmental, human and animal health vs. fluoride contamination -presence of fluoride in surface and ground water -impact on soils and agro-food products (food security). -relationships between fluoride contamination of irrigation water and agricultural soils H2020
www.floweredproject.org
FLOWERED objectives
- to test innovative technologies for drinking water
operating mainly at small village scale
- optimization of locally used defluoridators
- to develop an integrated, sustainable water and
agriculture management
- Integration of advanced scientific research with
local knowledge and experiences to enhance
decision making and rising of innovative ideas for
EU and African enterprises.Interdisciplinary Approach
geology, hydrogeology, mineralogy, geochemistry, agronomy,
climate research, crop and animal sciences, engineering,
technological sciences, data management and software
design, economics and communication. 36 months, 8 WPs
H2020Expected outcomes (i)identification and mapping of specific hydrogeological and geochemical conditions of water contamination vs land uses (ii) mitigation options for fluoride contamination in agricultural and livestock systems (iii)identification and testing of innovative water defluoridation technologies (iv)development of an innovative Geo-Data system for the knowledge management with a web platform for data sharing and a mobile app for data collection H2020
de - FLuoridation technologies for imprOving
quality of WatEr and agRo - animal products
along the East African Rift Valley in the
context of aDaptation to climate change
FLOWERED Contact Point
Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences
THANK YOU
University of Cagliari
Via Trentino 51
Project Coordinator
Giorgio Ghiglieri ASANTE SANA
09127 Cagliari, Italy ghiglieri@unica.it www.floweredproject.org
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