Urban Water Trajectories (eBook)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2017
XXI, 214 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-42686-0 (ISBN)

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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities' locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering.

This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction.

Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water.


Sarah Bell's (the lead editor) research interests lie in the relationships between engineering, technology and society as they impact on sustainability, particularly in relation to water systems. She uses research methods informed by theories from the science and technology studies, philosophy of technology and philosophy of engineering. She has supervised work in Australia, the UK, Mexico, Pakistan and Peru and has worked with a number of external partners including Waterwise, Arup, AECOM, Thames Water and WWF. She tweets @sarahjaynebell and blogs.

Sarah Bell's (the lead editor) research interests lie in the relationships between engineering, technology and society as they impact on sustainability, particularly in relation to water systems. She uses research methods informed by theories from the science and technology studies, philosophy of technology and philosophy of engineering. She has supervised work in Australia, the UK, Mexico, Pakistan and Peru and has worked with a number of external partners including Waterwise, Arup, AECOM, Thames Water and WWF. She tweets @sarahjaynebell and blogs.

1. Dividing the Waters: Urban Growth, City Life and Water Management in Amsterdam 1100-2000.- 2. TOXI-CITY: Protecting World-Class Drinking Water.- 3. Reading Urban Futures Through Their Blue Infrastructure: Wetland Networks In Bangalore and Madurai, India.- 4. Framing Sustainable Urban Water Management: a Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice.- 5. Water Reuse Trajectories.- 6. Unfolding Urban Geographies of Water-Related Vulnerability and Inequalities: Recognising Risks in Knowledge Building in Lima, Peru.- 7. Multi-layered Trajectories of Water and Sanitation Poverty in Dar es Salaam.- 8. Business Incentives and Models for Sanitation Entrepreneurs to Provide Services to the Urban Poor in Africa.- 9. Contesting and Co-producing the Right to Water in Peri-urban Cochabamba.- 10. Water Remunicipalisation: Between Pendulum Swings and Paradigm Advocacy.- 11. Past, Present and Future Urban Water: The Challenges in Creating More Beneficial Trajectories.- 12. Water and the (All Too Easy) Promised City: a Critique of Urban Water Governance.- 13. Moulding Citizenship: Urban Water and the (Dis)appearing Kampungs.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.10.2016
Reihe/Serie Future City
Zusatzinfo XXI, 214 p. 23 illus., 14 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften
Technik Architektur
Schlagworte Cities • Infrastructure • Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning • Politics • Risk • Urban • urban geography and urbanism • Water • Water Policy
ISBN-10 3-319-42686-9 / 3319426869
ISBN-13 978-3-319-42686-0 / 9783319426860
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