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DOI	10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106619
	Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa
	Rodina, L.; Harris, L.; Ziervogel, G.; Wilson, J.
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0305-750X
EISSN	1873-5991
起始页码	180
卷号	180
英文摘要	In 2017 and 2018, Cape Town faced historically unprecedented water shortages. With the imminent possibility of running out of water, the city 's leadership prioritized reducing water demand and expanding new water sources, while also reinvigorating the goal of seeking to build system -level water resilience for the longer term. Beyond the context of Cape Town, the crisis captured global attention, highlighting ongoing and future water security challenges, the realities of climate change, and the critical need to foster transitions towards more resilient water futures. Given that much of the discourse and implementation around water resilience remains squarely focused on the biophysical and engineering aspects of water supply and distribution systems, despite repeated calls for the need for greater attention to issues of equity and power, there remains little understanding of the ways that persistent inequities might serve or inhibit possibilities for urban socio-hydrological (or water) resilience. This paper draws on examples from Cape Town to argue that patterns and legacies of inequality, marginalization, and exclusion erode and inhibit possibilities for water resilience. Providing needed empirical evidence on the nature of these linkages, we theorize that deeply rooted inequities and related dynamics act as counter -currents - - trends that undermine and present persistent challenges to efforts to enhance socio-hydrological resilience. Documenting examples of disconnections between the state and civil society as well as disconnected socioecological systems, we argue that these persistent inequities mean that efforts to achieve socio-hydrological resilience are likely to remain elusive. It is only by foregrounding these processes that it will be possible to make cities more resilient in the face of ongoing and future water -related risks, uncertainties, and climatic and environmental change.
英文关键词	Water resilience; Cape Town; Social justice; Inequality; Informality
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Development Studies ; Business & Economics
WOS类目	Development Studies ; Economics
WOS记录号	WOS:001232408700001
来源期刊	WORLD DEVELOPMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/301214
作者单位	University of British Columbia; University of Cape Town; University of Cape Town
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rodina, L.,Harris, L.,Ziervogel, G.,et al. Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa[J],2024,180.
APA	Rodina, L.,Harris, L.,Ziervogel, G.,&Wilson, J..(2024).Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa.WORLD DEVELOPMENT,180.
MLA	Rodina, L.,et al."Resilience counter-currents: Water infrastructures, informality, and inequities in Cape Town, South Africa".WORLD DEVELOPMENT 180(2024).