Examining urban water management practices – Challenges and possibilities for transitions to sustainable urban water management in Sub-Saharan cities
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Examining urban water management practices – Challenges and possibilities for transitions to sustainable urban water management in Sub-Saharan cities. / Herslund, Lise; Mguni, Patience.
I: Sustainable Cities and Society, Bind 48, 101573, 2019.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Examining urban water management practices – Challenges and possibilities for transitions to sustainable urban water management in Sub-Saharan cities
AU - Herslund, Lise
AU - Mguni, Patience
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper uses a social practices lens to examine water management practices of households in Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam, their drivers and opportunities for change and discusses how far these practices fit into a sustainable urban water management agenda in an urban African context. The paper is based on interviews and workshops with inhabitants in two case sites as well as city stakeholders. In both cities the official discourse is the development and extension of universal conventional centralised water systems. However these are malfunctioning systems co-existing with various decentralised household water management practices. One challenge is how to complement the resource-intensive modern infrastructure ideal with low-technology, green infrastructure-based approaches. Another is how to change the discursive framings of existing decentralised practices from disqualification as ‘rural’ practices unfit for the urban. Finally, as developing cities purse sustainable development goals it is necessary to strengthen the ability of the urban water regime to support co-production and decentralised water management activities whilst reconfiguring those elements of practices that are inherently unsustainable.
AB - This paper uses a social practices lens to examine water management practices of households in Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam, their drivers and opportunities for change and discusses how far these practices fit into a sustainable urban water management agenda in an urban African context. The paper is based on interviews and workshops with inhabitants in two case sites as well as city stakeholders. In both cities the official discourse is the development and extension of universal conventional centralised water systems. However these are malfunctioning systems co-existing with various decentralised household water management practices. One challenge is how to complement the resource-intensive modern infrastructure ideal with low-technology, green infrastructure-based approaches. Another is how to change the discursive framings of existing decentralised practices from disqualification as ‘rural’ practices unfit for the urban. Finally, as developing cities purse sustainable development goals it is necessary to strengthen the ability of the urban water regime to support co-production and decentralised water management activities whilst reconfiguring those elements of practices that are inherently unsustainable.
KW - African cities
KW - Coexistence
KW - Coproduction
KW - Social practices
KW - Sustainable urban water management
KW - Water management practices
U2 - 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101573
DO - 10.1016/j.scs.2019.101573
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85064878143
VL - 48
JO - Sustainable Cities and Society
JF - Sustainable Cities and Society
SN - 2210-6707
M1 - 101573
ER -
ID: 223450578