City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater Bylaw: Barriers to Implementation

Froestad, Jan; Shearing, Clifford; Herbstein, Tom; Grimwood, Sakina

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“…This is convincingly illustrated by a study of the failure to introduce solar water heaters by means of legislation in Cape Town, despite many elements which ought to have facilitated a successful implementation since 2006. As with other environmental controversies, “attempts to implement environmentally friendly legislation confront an established regulatory landscape of legal principles and rules that protect practices that maintain status quo economy” (Froestad et al , 2011, p. 22). In this case, changing the landscape required co-operation between at least two different municipal departments which were unable to create spaces for their respective expertise to thrive or to reconcile their differing perceptions of the best policies for achieving the best outcomes, and this interdepartmental dispute has blocked the implementation process for now (Froestad et al ., 2011).…”

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“…There is some controversy about why this is so: lack of local leadership for some people, legal obstacles for others. As already mentioned, a study is focusing on the difficulties of co-operative action between two municipal departments with different “cultures of design and policy implementation” (Froestad et al ., 2011). For the Head of Green Energy (CoCT Electricity services), the lack of a national framework is obviously a stumbling block: the CoCT cannot inspect private homes, which makes it difficult to monitor a programme; it has no easy financial means of helping households to buy the heater, which makes it difficult to launch the programme on a large scale.…”

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Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town

Jaglin¹

2013

Urban Studies

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International audienceThe multiscalar challenges associated with urban energy policies are the cause of extensive interaction among multiple levels of government and social forces. However, these multilevel systems of action tend to reflect complex and unstable power and resistance patterns rather than stable co-operation processes. Thus, in this paper, a multilevel governance perspective is used as a starting point for understanding where and how multilevel interactions arise in an energy system as well as which issues are creating political conflict and the related consequences for the governance of urban energy policies. This approach is illustrated through a case study of Cape Town, which exemplifies a situation of conflicting policy and agendas at different levels of government, thus creating a great dispersion of initiatives across different scales. Integrating these initiatives within a broader coherent framework, however, is not only a technical matter. As urban energy policies deal with multilevel issues, they imply negotiating dynamic and complex compromises between different types of organisations and authorities while shaping their governance is also a matter of politics

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Section: From Distributing Electricity To Securing Energy Supply: Building a Local Action Systemmentioning

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Section: Energy Issues and Priorities: Local Versus National Rationalesmentioning

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Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town

Jaglin¹

2013

Urban Studies

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“…Such statutes and regulations reflect not only particular property rights and rules of access but also modernist urban planning theories and values from the mid-twentieth century that are ill-suited to the complexities and dynamics of contemporary urbanism and the practical needs of poorer urban residents. However, precisely because of the power of vested interests and institutional inertia, effecting change is both difficult and slow (Berrisford, 2014), even when the need for change to promote urban energy sustainability, urban and peri-urban agriculture and other forms of environmental greening is accepted (for example, Froestad et al, 2012;Lwasa et al, 2015). Sometimes, when legislative or regulatory change is impracticable, non-enforcement of inappropriate existing regulations can itself be an important means of de facto support, such as permitting urban and peri-urban cultivation on open public spaces.…”

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Rethinking Sustainable Cities

2016

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iii 3.1 Classic urban greening -'the city beautiful' -in downtown Vancouver, Canada (Photo © David Simon) 3.2 The humid tropics facilitate natural urban greenness, although often blended with well-maintained gardens, as here in a hillside high income area of Kampala, Uganda (Photo © David Simon) 3.3 Even in the humid tropics, high density, low income areas often lack the greenery of high income areas, with exposed brown earth reflecting a lack of investment and maintained public spaces, and sometimes also livestock grazing pressure. The multi-purpose value of trees, like this one planted as part of an action research project in peri-urban Kumasi, Ghana, is therefore high (Photo © David Simon) 3.4 Intensive peri-urban agriculture, Lagos, Nigeria (Photo © David Simon) 3.5 Conservation of ground cover on steep slopes and of some vegetation in and around informal settlements maintains slope stability, intercepts storm run-off and improves soil penetration by rainwater. These valuable ecosystem services are vital for poor and wealthy alike, as here in peri-urban Durban, South Africa, in the context of extreme events and climate change (Photo © David Simon) 3.6 Green walls and balcony or roof gardens, as here in Manhattan, New York City (USA), are aesthetically attractive and important for carbon sequestration (Photo © David Simon) 3.7 Green infrastructure: the Hudson River Park on Manhattan's Lower West Side, which replaced derelict wharves and warehouses, has provided valuable green shade and recreation space, and increased urban biodiversity and carbon sequestration capacity (Photo © David Simon) 3.8 Nanjing (People's Republic of China) exemplifies urban infrastructural greening as part of comprehensive redevelopment to tackle industrial pollution and unsustainable urbanism (Photos © David Simon) 4.1 Different life prospects: City traders, London; second-hand clothing vendor and customers, Maputo; beggar, Copenhagen, respectively (London and Copenhagen

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“…Our research has been pragmatic (and opportunistic), as the choice of projects undertaken have been shaped by access and funding opportunities. To date this work has involved projects that have engaged municipalities (see, for example, Froestad et al, 2012; Pasquini and Shearing, 2014), the insurance industry (see, for example, Herbstein et al, 2013; Nel et al, 2011), the marine industries and agriculture (Honig et al, forthcoming; Petersen et al, 2015). What has integrated these projects has been a set of cross-cutting analytic questions, that AMP references, focused on understanding the institutional conditions that shape human engagements with earth systems.…”

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Criminology and the Anthropocene

Shearing

2015

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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The article explores how criminology is responding to, and might respond to, the challenges presented by changes in earth systems, and the reasons for them, that the term 'Anthropocene' signals. It begins with a very brief review of these developments and the meaning of the term. It then examines the responses within criminology that have emerged under the sign 'green criminology'. Thereafter it explores how criminology might respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene by using a 'security governance' lens.A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest. (Foucault, 1988: 155 cited in Dalby, 2007 All of this suggests quite clearly that we need to rethink our identities as agents of geological change, and in the process understand humanity's role in the larger order of things. (Dalby, 2007: 112)

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City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater Bylaw: Barriers to Implementation

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town

Urban Energy Policies and the Governance of Multilevel Issues in Cape Town

Rethinking Sustainable Cities

Criminology and the Anthropocene

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