气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica

CCPortal

DOI	10.1073/pnas.2015177118
	Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica
	Del Carpio M.B.; Alpizar F.; Ferraro P.J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:29
英文摘要	Water scarcity is a global problem that can be compounded by inefficient water management, including underinvestment in infrastructure, underpricing of water use, and underenforcement of user rules. Here, we explore whether these inefficiencies can be reduced in rural Costa Rica via an externally driven community monitoring program (i.e., a program initiated by an outside organization and run by citizens). The monitoring program aimed to reduce groundwater extraction from aquifers, as well as to improve water quality and user satisfaction, by supplying additional information about field conditions and additional scrutiny of user and management authority activities and by fostering citizen engagement in water management. Using a specially designed smartphone application (app) and WhatsApp, monitors could report weekly on the conditions of the water system, including service disruptions, water quality, leaks, and source contamination. The app automatically compiled the individual reports into a summary report, which was then made available to the community water management committees and water users. The program was randomly implemented in 80 of 161 communities that expressed an interest in participating. One year after the program started, we detect modest, albeit imprecisely estimated, effects of the program in the predicted directions: less groundwater extracted, better water quality, and more satisfied users. Although the estimated effects are imprecise, the monitoring program appears to be equally or more cost effective for reducing groundwater extraction than another program in the same region that encouraged households to adopt water-efficient technologies. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Citizen engagement; Collective action; Common pool resource; Community-based environmental monitoring; Community-based natural resource management
语种	英语
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238685
作者单位	Department of Economics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States; Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, 6700 EW, Netherlands; Environment for Development Program, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Turrialba, 30501, Costa Rica; Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21202, United States; Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, a joint department of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21212, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Del Carpio M.B.,Alpizar F.,Ferraro P.J.. Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica[J],2021,118(29).
APA	Del Carpio M.B.,Alpizar F.,&Ferraro P.J..(2021).Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(29).
MLA	Del Carpio M.B.,et al."Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.29(2021).