Percepciones del agua y modelos de su gestión en las distintas fases de la configuración de Doñana

Abstract

This paper is based on a second reading of the approaches of the authors themselves to the spatial organisation of Doñana from water issues point of view. This review has lead to the presentation of the different water perceptions that have been arising over the last few centuries in this region. Consequently, the article refers to the different water management patterns that each paradigm or cultural and social-vision framework has developed. Thus the primary conception that encompassed an adaptive approach to water, within the social and economic context of the Antiguo Regimen, gradually changed into a productivist perception, parallel to a kind of reclamation and controlling management model. This evolution gave rise to nature control and to high levels of water consumption, whose current consequences we are trying to alleviate nowadays -within the "clorophilic" paradigm- with contradictory processes of water restoration and interbasin transfers.