Urban Water Trajectories

Bell, Sarah; Allen, Adriana; Hofmann, Pascale; Teh, Tse-Hui

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42686-0

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“…Visible trends in selected urban contexts show the contradiction between competing adaptation and mitigation goals. The new way of dealing with water in the city, in which, for example, the concept of the sponge city replaces the former ideal of draining the city, leads to enormous competition for space [14]. Adaptation measures in favor of a sponge city will lead to additional cooling effects and an increase in green spaces and biodiversity when rainwater and flood water no longer drain quickly, but are kept in the city.…”

Section: Annals Of Social Sciences and Management Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Resilience and Economics

Schwarze

2023

ASM

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Resilience means different things to planning professionals, shaped by factors as diverse as their disciplinary backgrounds and the cultural and political contexts in which they operate. As the relevance of resilience and resilience planning in all areas of society is growing, it is important to understand some of the associated interpretations, demarcations and planning dimensions in order to enable a cross-contextual, integrated application. The traditional economic planning instruments are proving to be unsuitable for this purpose. Interdisciplinary methods of scenario-based planning and disaster risk management are better suited for this purpose.

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Section: Annals Of Social Sciences and Management Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on Resilience and Economics

Schwarze

2023

ASM

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“…Relatively low service management levels in Mexico City can result in collapse of public services in response to shocks. The history of Mexico City's urban water evolution demonstrates the legacy effect of decisions taken today or in the past on the long-term urban water trajectories, which can determine the evolution of entire cities (Bell & Hofmann, 2017;Marlow et al, 2013;Tellman et al, 2018).…”

Section: Along the Urban Water Security And Resilience Gradientmentioning

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“…), accounts of the local conditions illustrate the high price that communities pay for the little adaptation they can afford (Potter et al, 2010;Wutich & Ragsdale, 2008). Such conditions are characteristic of rapidly developing cities in many African and Asian countries and concern millions of people across the globe (Bell & Hofmann, 2017;Gopakumar, 2009;Sullivan, 2002;WORLD BANK, 2015;Zug & Graefe, 2014).…”

Section: Along the Urban Water Security And Resilience Gradientmentioning

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Resilience Dynamics of Urban Water Supply Security and Potential of Tipping Points

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Cities are the drivers of socioeconomic innovation and are also forced to address the accelerating risk of failure in providing essential services such as water supply today and in the future. Here, we investigate the resilience of urban water supply security, which is defined in terms of the services that citizens receive. The resilience of services is determined by the availability and robustness of critical system elements or “capitals” (water resources, infrastructure, finances, management efficacy, and community adaptation). We translate quantitative information about this portfolio of capitals from seven contrasting cities on four continents into parameters of a coupled system dynamics model. Water services are disrupted by recurring stochastic shocks, and we simulate the dynamics of impact and recovery cycles. Resilience emerges under various constraints, expressed in terms of each city's capital portfolio. Systematic assessment of the parameter space produces the urban water resilience landscape, and we determine the position of each city along a continuous gradient from water insecure and nonresilient to secure and resilient systems. In several cities stochastic disturbance regimes challenge steady‐state conditions and drive system collapse. While water insecure and nonresilient cities risk being pushed into a poverty trap, cities which have developed excess capitals risk being trapped in rigidity and crossing a tipping point from high to low services and collapse. Where public services are insufficient, community adaptation improves water security and resilience to varying degrees. Our results highlight the need for resilience thinking in the governance of urban water systems under global change pressures.

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Defining “water resilience”: Debates, concepts, approaches, and gaps

Rodina

2018

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Resilience is increasingly applied the context of water systems, and water governance more broadly, in response to climate change impacts, hydrologic variability and uncertainty associated with various dimensions of global environmental change. However, the meanings, applications and implications of resilience as it relates to water governance are still poorly understood. Drawing on a systematic scoping review of the peer‐reviewed academic literature, this paper addresses the questions: how is resilience framed in relation to water systems and water governance, how are diverse resilience framings (re)shaping ideas and trends in water management, and what are the associated implications? The analysis found that the resilience‐informed water governance literature remains fragmented and predominantly centered on conventional approaches and framings of water planning, with a predominant focus on engineering resilience in water supply infrastructure. A recently emerging engagement with resilience in the water governance literature, however, draws on more diverse framings and theories and calls for a shift towards more integrative and ecologically‐centered thinking in water governance. Despite this, significant empirical and conceptual gaps remain, particularly around the integration of the various subsectors of water governance and, more importantly, around the institutional and governance dimensions of building water resilience. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance

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Urban Water Trajectories

Cited by 7 publications

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Reflections on Resilience and Economics

Reflections on Resilience and Economics

Resilience Dynamics of Urban Water Supply Security and Potential of Tipping Points

Defining “water resilience”: Debates, concepts, approaches, and gaps

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