Rain and the city: Pathways to mainstreaming rainwater harvesting in Berlin

Soler, Natàlia García; Moss, Timothy; Papasozomenou, Ourania

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.010

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“…According to this view, industries are not motivated to change business models and bear high financial risks for developing innovative infrastructure services in the absence of economic and supportive legal frameworks that accurately define costs, risks, and benefits. The leadership role of public authorities and landscape and urban planning agencies in the transformation process towards SUWM has been emphasized by other studies [26,85,86].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other European regions might have been under-represented in the results. Germany is a prime example of a country with a long and advanced experience of SUWM practices in [85,86]. Over the past 40 years (with support from innovative policy approaches), SUWM-related technologies in Germany have evolved from experiments to common practices based on developed standards and norms that were also transferred to other contexts [85].…”

Section: Geography Scale Journals and Authorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions

Esmail

Suleiman

2020

Sustainability

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Sustainability concerns and multiple socio-environmental pressures have necessitated a shift towards Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) systems. Viewing SUWM systems as sociotechnical, this paper departs from eight factors previously identified by transition research: Pressures, Context, Purposes, Actors, Instruments, Processes, Outputs, and Outcomes as a methodological framework for a structured review of 100 articles. The study seeks to analyze empirical cases of planning and implementing SUWM systems worldwide. A wide range of public actors—driven by social and environmental factors rather than by economic pressures—have initiated SUWM projects so as to locally fulfill defined social and environmental purposes. We provide evidence on the emergence of new actors, such as experts, users, and private developers, as well as on the diverse and innovative technical and societal instruments used to promote and implement SUWM systems. We also explore their contexts and institutional capacity to deal with pressures and to mobilize significant financial and human resources, which is in itself vital for the transition to SUWM. Planned or implemented SUWM outputs are divided into green (wet ponds, raingardens, and green roofs) and gray (rain barrels and porous pavements) measures. The outcomes of SUWM projects—in terms of societal and technical learning, and their institutional uptakes—are often implicit or lacking, which seemingly reduces the rate of desirable change.

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Section: Geography Scale Journals and Authorshipmentioning

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Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions

Esmail

Suleiman

2020

Sustainability

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“…The multi-level perspective recognizes four general stages (pre-development, take-off, acceleration and stabilization) that theoretically describe the shifts from one socio-technical regime to another. However, transitions can be non-linear and messy, with drawbacks and lock-in periods (García Soler et al, 2018), offering more tensions to explore and involving more complex processes in which different socio-technical systems coexist (Furlong, 2014). Fuenfshilling and Truffer (2014) acknowledge that hard and soft stormwater infrastructures coexist in cities, and are likely do so in the future (see also Saurí and Palau-Rof, 2017).…”

Section: A Geographical Understanding Of Sustainability Transitionsmentioning

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“…Even though socio-technical systems such as SUDS are inherently infused by power relations (García Soler et al, 2018;Linton and Budds, 2014), the politics behind those systems have been systematically neglected in STT (Hodson and Marvin, 2010;Markard et al, 2012). Technology has been at the core of transitions through the replacement of technological artifacts as a means to achieve sustainability (Gimenez-Maranges et al, 2020b;Karvonen, 2011;Meadowcroft, 2009;Shove and Walker, 2007), largely ignoring context-specific social and political-economic relations (Lawhon and Murphy, 2011).…”

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Contributions of Urban Political Ecology to sustainable drainage transitions

Nóblega-Carriquiry¹

2022

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This article aims to demonstrate how critical urban geography and Urban Political Ecology (UPE) can provide analytical tools to fully incorporate the social dimension in Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), overcoming ageographical and depoliticized understandings of sustainable stormwater transitions. Through its socio-technical framework, Sustainability Transitions Theory (STT) has contributed significantly to the discourses around governance, infrastructure and management of the new stormwater paradigm from hazard to resource. However, the theory fails to recognise the complexities that geographical, historical and political dynamics introduce into this process, as questions arise regarding why, how and for whom stormwater becomes a resource. The article argues that UPE can offer insights into why and how drainage transitions may take place in specific contexts, considering aspects of sustainability, social equity, justice and democracy.

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“…Stormwater management and urban drainage remain centralized and heavily reliant on technocratic forms of governance that attempt to control urban hydrological processes through technical solutions and bureaucratic management (Cousins, ; Saguin, ). This structure of “command‐and‐control” governance from the top‐down was well‐suited for many single purpose targets of the past, but has instilled barriers to new forms of technology and participatory governance (Ferguson, Frantzeskaki, & Brown, ; García Soler, Moss, & Papasozomenou, ; Parikh, Taylor, Hoagland, Thurston, & Shuster, ; Saurí & Palau‐rof, ). Scholarship has shown that many technical experts are reluctant to implement green infrastructure, and if they are supportive, their efforts remain undergirded by a gray epistemology (Brown, ; Finewood, ).…”

Section: The Politics and Governance Of Stormwater And Urban Drainagementioning

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Remaking stormwater as a resource: Technology, law, and citizenship

Cousins

2018

WIREs Water

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This review examines how stormwater is being rethought of as a resource in urban planning and governance. No longer administered simply as a conveyance problem, a range of actors are progressively repurposing stormwater as an underutilized resource that can resolve water quality and quantity challenges. I suggest this transition emerged out of the need to address a host of problems rooted in the institutional and infrastructural legacy of treating stormwater as a waste and flood control problem, as well as a new set of concerns associated with climate change, continued urbanization, and fiscal and administrative cuts. As a response, a number of technical and political mechanisms are looking to remake stormwater as a resource. In particular, the review focuses on the role of green infrastructure and technological change, legal structures, and incentives to enroll citizens into the governance process. These practices assemble stormwater as a resource by configuring diverse forms of knowledge, technology, and relations that meet political goals to build smart, resilient, and sustainable cities. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water Human Water > Water Governance Science of Water > Water Quality

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Rain and the city: Pathways to mainstreaming rainwater harvesting in Berlin

Cited by 31 publications

References 34 publications

Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions

Analyzing Evidence of Sustainable Urban Water Management Systems: A Review through the Lenses of Sociotechnical Transitions

Contributions of Urban Political Ecology to sustainable drainage transitions

Remaking stormwater as a resource: Technology, law, and citizenship

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