Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation in Mozambican Urban Water, Sanitation, and Drainage Sector

Muradás, Pedro; Puig, María Dolors Calvet; Ruiz, Óscar Dorado; Solé, Josep María Macias i

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_132

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“…In either situation, the maintenance of this drainage and sewage system is a constant preoccupation. The city's sanitation service was transformed in 2008 from a branch of municipal administration to a state-held company, the Beira Autonomous Sanitation Service, or SASB by its Portuguese acronym (Muradás et al 2021). The sewage system (wastewater) was upgraded between 2008 and 2012 with EU funding, which included the installation of electric pumps at 11 pumping substations -the city is so low-lying that there's not enough depth to move water by gravity, like in other Mozambican cities.…”

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Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira

Schubert

2024

Buildings and Cities

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The port city of Beira, on Mozambique's Indian Ocean coast, was devastated by Tropical Cyclone Idai in March 2019. Ever since, a host of unequal international and national actors have been wrangling about the best forms to 'build back better', with uneven and socially and spatially unequally distributed results. The institutional set-up and concomitant challenges of making adaptation work are described in a context where the pressures of both growth-based development and climate change mitigation are particularly manifest. In particular, the tensions are explored between political and economic imperatives and the seemingly apolitical, technical best practices advanced by Mozambique's biand multilateral donor partners, as well as the complex infrastructural and economic interdependencies that condition urban planning and development. Through this, the very real constraints of transitioning to climate-resilient cities are demonstrated, along with how most of what turns a climate event into a human disaster sits within highly unequal social, political and economic systems. POLICY RELEVANCEEmpirical, ethnographic material gathered from the post-cyclone reconstruction process in Beira, Mozambique, shows how institutional complexities and political rivalry limit the possibilities of reconstruction. These organisational issues impact more than technical or financial challenges. 'Best practices' of 'building back better' are almost rendered moot by socio-economic and political constraints, revealing the substantial challenges of implementing large-scale, technically 'best practice' reconstruction programmes. The analysis of the factors that contributed to making Cyclone Idai such a calamitous event holds important lessons for climate adaptation and disaster reconstruction in coastal cities, especially for those operating in challenging political and economic conditions.

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Section: Infrastructural Contextmentioning

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Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira

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2024

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Co-developing evidence-informed adaptation actions for resilient citywide sanitation: Local government response to climate change in Indonesia

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Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Already climate-related hazards are impacting sanitation systems in Indonesia and elsewhere, and climate models indicate these hazards are likely to increase in frequency and intensity. Without due attention, to maintain existing progress on Sustainable Development Goal 6’s target 6.2 and to increase it to meet ambitions for 2030 will be difficult. City governments need new forms of evidence to respond, as well as approaches to enable them to consider sufficient breadth of strategies to adapt effectively. This paper describes a co-production research process which engaged local governments in four cities in Indonesia experiencing different climate hazards. Local government engagement took place across three stages of (i) inception and design, (ii) participation as key informants and (iii) joint analysis and engagement on the findings. We adapted and simplified a risk prioritisation process based on current literature and employed a novel framework of a ‘climate resilient sanitation system’ to prompt articulation of current and proposed climate change adaptation response actions. In contrast to many current framings of climate resilience in sanitation that focus narrowly on technical responses, the results paint a rich picture of efforts needed by city governments across all domains, including planning, institutions, financing, infrastructure and management options, user awareness, water cycle management and monitoring and evaluation. Local government commitment and improved comprehension on the implications of climate change for sanitation service delivery were key outcomes arising from the co-production process. With strengthened policy and capacity building initiatives from national level, this foundation can be supported, and Indonesian city governments will be equipped to move forward with adaptation actions that protect on-going access to sanitation services, public health and the environment.

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Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation in Mozambican Urban Water, Sanitation, and Drainage Sector

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Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira

Maintaining a city against nature: climate adaptation in Beira

Co-developing evidence-informed adaptation actions for resilient citywide sanitation: Local government response to climate change in Indonesia

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