Cultural sustainability and community water management in coastal Ecuador: jagüeyes or albarradas and small dams or detention ponds
The objective of this article is to highlight the sustainability capacity of pre-Columbian water management systems called jagüeyes or albarradas (detention ponds) compared with modern technologies like dams which are used today in coastal Ecuador. These are compared using interdisciplinary field r...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade de Brasília
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Sustentabilidade em Debate |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sust/article/view/35516 |