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Reconfiguration of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in the Everest Tourist Region of Solukhumbu, Nepal

hal.structure.identifierCentre d'Études Himalayennes [CEH]
dc.contributor.authorAUBRIOT, Olivia
hal.structure.identifierPassages
dc.contributor.authorFAULON, Marie
hal.structure.identifierLIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés [LIENSs]
dc.contributor.authorSACAREAU, Isabelle
hal.structure.identifierCentre d'Études Himalayennes [CEH]
hal.structure.identifierCentre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques [CESSMA UMRD 245]
dc.contributor.authorPUSCHIASIS, Ornella
hal.structure.identifierPassages
dc.contributor.authorJACQUEMET, Etienne
hal.structure.identifierCentre d'Études Himalayennes [CEH]
dc.contributor.authorSMADJA, Joëlle
hal.structure.identifierPassages
dc.contributor.authorANDRÉ-LAMAT, Véronique
hal.structure.identifierCentre d'Études Himalayennes [CEH]
dc.contributor.authorABADIA, Céline
hal.structure.identifierCentre d'Études Himalayennes [CEH]
dc.contributor.authorMULLER, Alix
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0276-4741
dc.description.abstractEnA case study in the Solukhumbu region in northern Nepal reveals that the high number of seasonal tourists—which has doubled in 20 years—has led to growing water, food, and energy demands that have modified agropastoral practices and the use of local resources. This has induced new patterns in the movement of goods, people, and animals in the Everest region and the reconfiguration of the water–energy–food nexus. We use this concept of nexus to analyze ongoing interactions and transformations. Key changes involve (1) massive imports of consumer goods; (2) use of local resources with new techniques (hydropower plants, improved mills, greenhouses, and pipes for domestic networks) that depend on imported materials, which are newly accessible to Sherpas as a result of economic benefits generated by tourism; (3) commodification of local resources (water, hydropower, vegetables, fodder, and flour); (4) an increasing number of electrical appliances; and (5) new uses of water, especially for tourist-related services, including hot showers, watering of greenhouses, bottling of water, and production of electricity for cell phones, rice cookers, and other electric appliances. These new uses, on top of traditional ones such as mill operation, compete in some places during spring when water supplies are low and the tourist demand is high. A transfer of pressure from one resource (the forest) to another (water) has also resulted from the government ban on woodcutting, incentives to develop hydropower, and the competition between lodges to upgrade their amenities by offering better services (such as hot showers, plugs to recharge batteries, internet connections, and local vegetables). Our research finds that water is now central to the proper running of the tourist industry and the region's economy but is under seasonal pressure.
dc.description.sponsorshipPressions sur la ressource en eau et en sols dans l'Himalaya népalais - ANR-13-SENV-0005
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInternational Mountain Society
dc.subject.enTourism
dc.subject.enwater–energy–foodnexus
dc.subject.enflux
dc.subject.enhydropower
dc.subject.enwatermill
dc.subject.enUpper Solukhumbu
dc.subject.enEverest
dc.subject.enNepal
dc.title.enReconfiguration of the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in the Everest Tourist Region of Solukhumbu, Nepal
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-17-00080.1
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Géographie
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
dc.subject.jelQ - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q59 - Other
dc.subject.jelZ - Other Special Topics/Z.Z3 - Tourism Economics
bordeaux.journalMountain Research and Development
bordeaux.pageR47-R59
bordeaux.volume39
bordeaux.issue1
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhalshs-02164589
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//halshs-02164589v1
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