| Titre | De la théorie de la huerta : Géographie comparée des huertas du Sureste espagnol, de Marrakech et de l'oasis d'Ispahan | |
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| Auteur | Robert Herin | |
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Revue |
Géocarrefour Titre à cette date : Revue de géographie de Lyon |
| Numéro | volume 52, no 2, 2012 Sécheresse | |
| Page | 177-196 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The three irrigated regions, the Haouz of Marrakech, the oasis of Ispahan, end the huertas of South Eastearn Spain, belong to arid or subarid mediterranean areas. Thus, rivers and water-tables are of vital importance. Water tapped from rivers or tables permitted early development of intensive farming. Each of these three regions is an ensemble unique in many respects. However agrarian organization obeys similar patterns and rules in all three : 1°) from upstream to downstream, the intensity of farming decreases in proportion to water ressources. This gradient of irrigation tends to fade out in the places where modern hydraulic engineering increased usable water sources ; 2°) this halo organization of the rural landscape is more or less obscured by certain anomalies, inconsistencies, resulting from the contingencies of a complex land history. In fact, these anomalies, in so far as they seem to reappear in all huertas are the tangible translation into the rural landscapes of conflicts concerning water appropriation (on the one hand) and of the stages of development of irrigated areas {on the other) ; this development is characterized by the succession of generations of great estates whose owners charged the peasant communities for use of water and land. The repetition of these patterns of organization suggests a « huerta theory » issuing from the scarcity of water and the stakes involved in its exploitation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/geoca_0035-113x_1977_num_52_2_1202 |
