Adaptive co-management model for the East Kolkata wetlands: A sustainable solution to manage the rapid ecological transformation of a peri-urban landscape

Roy-Basu, Avanti; Bharat, Girija K.; Chakraborty, Paromita; Sarkar, S.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134203

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“…Current water management practices cover ecosystem services from wetlands, lakes, the sea, forests, and protected areas, and are also linked to biomass renovation, biodiversity and landscape conservation, and green infrastructure [74,79,104,113]. Research was done on the integration of local and scientific knowledge, traditional weather forecasting, climate-smart agriculture, and multidisciplinary strategic cooperation to face risks of floods, flashfloods, and stormwater management needs [52,83,145].…”

Section: Sociocultural Practices and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The practice of territorial governance goes in the direction of managing the hybrid institutional context to ensure food production and service provision at reduced costs; manage ambiguities, negative externalities, and structural inequalities; and develop innovative and adequate ways to care for limited resources and fragile ecosystems, as well as risk management and adaptation, through a flexible approach of co-creation and co-management that institutionalize inclusiveness, participation, conflict management mechanisms, and subsidiarity [53,79,145]. Governance in peri-urban areas tries to gradually approximate formal and informal institutions, sometimes through a dynamic process of adaptation of norms to changes (also known as "institutional bricolage" [67] (p. 2)), matching legality and legitimacy, overcoming marginalization and institutional fragmentation, and reaching institutional fitness [66,67,103].…”

Section: Economic Practices and Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Topics on water management were suggested to include the impact of overextraction of groundwater on wetlands [79], the lack of demand for civil society organizations to participate in water governance arrangements [96], and forms of participation in waste management and willingness to pay [125].…”

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Sustainability in Peri-Urban Informal Settlements: A Review

Carrilho

Trindade

2022

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The study of peri-urbanization attracted attention in the final quarter of the 20th century, due to the pace it acquired worldwide and the implication that urbanization and overall settlement patterns have on social sustainability and development. Theoretical and conceptual achievements are remarkable. Multi-country collaboration has produced a growing body of research on sustainability and peri-urban settlements. There is a lack, however, of a review of the practices of peri-urban informal settlements, the predominant mode of urban expansion, mainly in developing and rapidly urbanizing regions of the world. The purpose is, then, to systematize, from recent literature, the knowledge of the context, challenges, and practices, as well as their impacts and potential courses of action, to ensure sustainability in human–natural complex of the territory beyond urban cores, suburbs, or slums. A systematic review approach was adopted, for articles published in reputable journals, with support of previous reviews, books, and reports. A pragmatist combination of content analysis and critical review identified core topics and highlighted contrasting views. An analytical framework is proposed. Four categories—drivers, challenges and practices, impact, and future trends—are proposed as an adequate approach to systematizing the literature. The review finds that the practices focus on service and resource provision, on regulations to approximate informal to formal institutions, and on an economy founded on the resource base and service provision. This review provides insights on future trends and research topics.

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Section: Sociocultural Practices and Challengesmentioning

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Section: Economic Practices and Challengesmentioning

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Sustainability in Peri-Urban Informal Settlements: A Review

Carrilho

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2022

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“…It provides a low-cost, efficient, and environmental friendly solid-waste and sewage treatment system for the city of Kolkata (Ghosh, 1998;Nag et al, 2019). EKW also supply water to nearby urban agricultural activities (Roy-Basu et al, 2020). The present study was conducted in one unit of EKW (22 • 59 14.59 N; 88 • 37 40.33 E) with a water surface area of 55 ha.…”

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Evaluation of Three Prokaryote Primers for Identification of Prokaryote Community Structure and Their Abode Preference in Three Distinct Wetland Ecosystems

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The ultimate role of prokaryote (bacteria and archaea), the decomposer of the wetland ecosystem, depends on its community structure and its interaction with the environment. The present study has used three universal prokaryote primers to compare prokaryote community structure and diversity of three distinctly different wetlands. The study results revealed that α-diversity indices and phylogenetic differential abundance patterns did not differ significantly among primers, but they did differ significantly across wetlands. Microbial community composition revealed a distinct pattern for each primer in each wetland. Overall comparison of prokaryote communities in sediments of three wetlands revealed the highest prokaryote richness and diversity in Bhomra (freshwater wetland) followed by Malencho (brackish-water wetland) and East Kolkata wetland (EKW) (sewage-fed wetland). Indicator genus analysis identified 21, 4, and 29 unique indicator genera, having preferential abode for Bhomra, EKW, and Malencho, respectively. Prediction of potential roles of these microbes revealed a preference for sulfate-reducing microbes in Malencho and methanogens in Bhomra. The distinct phylogenetic differential abundance pattern, microbial abode preference, and their potential functional role predict ecosystem variables shaping microbial diversity. The variation in community composition of prokaryotes in response to ecosystem variables can serve as the most sensitive bioindicator of wetland ecosystem assessment and management.

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“…In part, it has to do with the fact that the Management Plan and the Follow-up Commission were not mandatory instruments for the specific case of the Charca (considering the local urban and environmental regulations), but intentionally brought to the scene to assure an adaptive and participated management. Recent works [51,52] propose the creation of conservation committees as instruments to govern wetlands. In a context in which little consolidated information is available on how urban wetlands are governed [33], the Charca study case has provided information on how its governing is undertaken.…”

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Local Planning Practice towards Resilience: Insights from the Adaptive Co-Management and Design of a Mediterranean Wetland

Salizzoni¹,

Campaña²,

Alcalde-Rodríguez³

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Although widely, as well as recently explored, the concept of urban resilience still poses important issues in terms of its operationalization. For this reason, best practices that show how the resilience concept has been turned into planning practice are much needed. This article presents and discusses the case study of the Charca de Suárez Nature Concerted Reserve, an urban wetland situated along the Andalusian coast (Spain), to contribute to filling the gap on the operationalization of urban resilience at the local planning level. In the Charca, an adaptive co-management and design approach has been successfully put into practice to foster local urban resilience. Starting from some recent key studies on planning and management policies for urban resilience, we propose a framework to read, understand and evaluate the Charca experience, and more generally, resilience-based projects. The analysis highlighted the following crucial key aspects for urban resilience in the Charca case study: A collaborative governance model; and the building of community-capitals. The Charca de Suárez Nature Concerted Reserve can actually be acknowledged as an innovative planning practice, a source of inspiration for visions and experiments oriented to urban resilience.

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Adaptive co-management model for the East Kolkata wetlands: A sustainable solution to manage the rapid ecological transformation of a peri-urban landscape

Cited by 44 publications

References 19 publications

Sustainability in Peri-Urban Informal Settlements: A Review

Sustainability in Peri-Urban Informal Settlements: A Review

Evaluation of Three Prokaryote Primers for Identification of Prokaryote Community Structure and Their Abode Preference in Three Distinct Wetland Ecosystems

Local Planning Practice towards Resilience: Insights from the Adaptive Co-Management and Design of a Mediterranean Wetland

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