Community-Based Mapping Methodology for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa

Gendered Infrastructural Citizenship: Shared Sanitation Facilities in Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa

“…The land upon which QRW is located has multiple private and public owners, including the eThekwini Municipality and a private landlord (Sim et al, 2019). QRW is built on a 1:100-year floodplain straddling the Palmiet River, meaning it is considered a high-risk settlement and selected for relocation to state-sponsored housing (Mazeka et al, 2019). Indeed, in April 2019, the settlement suffered extensive flood-damage following significant flooding across Durban.…”

A Design Workshop’s Contribution to Climate Adaptation in Coastal Settlements in Nigeria

“…Collaborative engagements are becoming popular in addressing challenges associated with climate change. Scholars [5,6] have advocated for transdisciplinary approaches, that is, fostering collaboration by moving across disciplinary, sectoral, and stakeholder siloes. This approach has the advantage of generating usable knowledge (much more than mere new knowledge) for the intertwined complex challenges related to global climate change.…”

The Urban Data Justice Case Study Collection

“…This is a result of the democratisation of decision making through the shift from government to governance, the development of the network society (Castells 2000;Hajer & Wagenaar 2003), and the growing volume, velocity, variety and visibility of data, as a result of the digital technologies of the 21 st century . This is leading to the 'datafication of development', which is the growing presence, use and impact of data in social processes, leading to opportunities for increased developmental impact through new forms of data streams being produced, shared and translated at different scales Mazeka et al 2019;. The production, sharing and use of data is particularly important for the urban poor, who to date have been largely excluded from data production processes in cities in the South, due to their perceived and constructed illegibility, informality and lack of power.…”

“…The researchers and mapmakers are co-constructing a range of data and maps at the local scale, producing knowledge on the settlement and its governance. This datafication of the settlement has the goal of improving the living environment of residents through informal settlement upgrading, supporting social learning, river rehabilitation, climate adaptation, and the building of resilience (Martel & Sutherland 2019;Mazeka et al 2019;Sim et al 2019;Vogel et al 2016;Williams et al 2019).…”

“…The university researchers and mapmakers continually reflect on 'if, how and why' this data contributes to, and shapes, the well-being, resilience and development of the community and whether it has helped to build state-citizen relations, which have emerged as being critical to 'good' urban governance in Durban (Martel & Sutherland 2019;Mazeka et al 2019). Has this long-term, participatory and time-consuming data production process supported the transformation of the community and addressed development deficits in any way?…”