Water sensitivity and context specificity – concept and context in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for secondary cities

Meulen, Geert van der; Dorst, M.J. Van; Bacchin, T. Kuzniecow

doi:10.1080/1573062x.2022.2153704

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“…These factors influence people's behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions towards water resources, as well as their access to water and sanitation services. Understanding and addressing these socio-economic and cultural considerations are essential for developing sustainable and inclusive water management policies [56].…”

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Sustainable Water Management: Understanding the Socioeconomic and Cultural Dimensions

Santos,

Carvalho,

Martins

2023

Sustainability

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With the pressing challenges of water scarcity and pollution, achieving sustainable water management is imperative for promoting long-term development. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the socio-economic and cultural factors that shape the sustainability of water management strategies in Brazil and Portugal. This study highlights various factors that influence water management, including robust legal frameworks, socio-economic disparities, cultural practices, agricultural water usage, knowledge sharing, public participation, climate change resilience, water scarcity risks, industrial water consumption, and urbanization. By conducting a SWOT analysis of water management strategies, this research synthesizes information through an extensive literature review, encompassing the legal frameworks, policies, and implemented strategies in both countries. Additionally, it investigates comparative studies among Brazil, Portugal, and other European nations to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences in water management practices. The findings of this study offer valuable insights into the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats associated with water management strategies in Brazil and Portugal, thereby guiding the development of tailored policies and strategies that foster sustainability in water resource management. Additionally, the research highlights the role of digital transformation in optimizing water management practices. By integrating socio-economic, cultural, and digital factors, this study contributes to effective and sustainable water management in Brazil and Portugal, ensuring responsible utilization and preservation of water resources.

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Sustainable Water Management: Understanding the Socioeconomic and Cultural Dimensions

Santos,

Carvalho,

Martins

2023

Sustainability

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“…Conceptualized in Australian academia and applied in the country's primary city context, WSUD faces knowledge gaps regarding its applicability in urban contexts in countries like India [8] and concerns regarding its transferability have been raised [9]. Furthermore, for secondary cities, a knowledge gap can be perceived in the form of the availability of data, with WSUD being data-intensive [10] and secondary cities portrayed as data-lacking.…”

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“…Furthermore, for secondary cities, a knowledge gap can be perceived in the form of the availability of data, with WSUD being data-intensive [10] and secondary cities portrayed as data-lacking. Necessary formal data sets can be unavailable, outdated, inaccurately scaled, or uncoordinatedly stored while resources to produce data consistently fail to keep pace with high secondary city dynamics [11], whereas emphasis on and recognition of context specificity of water sensitivity is required [9,12].…”

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“…It is this call for context specificity and the knowledge gaps between the secondary city context and the WSUD concept that define the specific direction of the theoretical framework of this study. Beyond the limitations a secondary city context poses to WSUD, as scoped above [8][9][10][11], the article addresses possible pitfalls of WSUD. Being an act of design [13], the suitability of universal water sensitivity as a guiding concept, the frame of references, and other aspects considered or presupposed in design processes can be questioned when addressing secondary cities.…”

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“…Rather than constructing missing data sets, the historical account is used as a necessary design action and method of reading space to develop an understanding of urban water management processes beneficial to water-sensitive urban development. Rather than positioning water sensitivity merely as a goal that may remain unachievable in certain contexts, water sensitivity is, in this historical account, recognized as a variable of context [9] and distilled as such from each period discussed. This approach and understanding of water sensitivity seeks answers to the questions: what aspects have enabled and halted water sensitivity in Bhuj's past urban water transitions?…”

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Reviewing Historic Urban Water Transitions to Advance Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Bhuj, India

van der Meulen,

Mishra,

van Dorst

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In rapidly growing urban contexts, water plays a pivotal role in the transitions the urban environment goes through to sustain the quality of life of its population. Spatial planning and design are essential for the facilitation and manifestation of such transitions. Focusing on Bhuj, a rapidly growing Indian city in a hot arid desert climate, its crucial yet changing sensitivity to urban water flows over time is assessed. The concept of water sensitivity is coined as a goal to pursue by the Water-Sensitive Urban Design approach. In India, however, much of the urban design and development processes are of an unplanned and informal nature, seemingly inhibiting the water sensitivity of urban transitions. Reviewing spatial planning paradigms and their manifestation in space in Bhuj over time, however, brings to light a pre-existing water sensitivity. Yet it also shows a shift from the supply security-oriented ingenious watershed expansion to catastrophe-steered and urban expansion-driven water system negligence. Review and discussion of past and present urban water transitions and management points out drivers, barriers, and their interrelationships, to enable and advance water-sensitive urban development tied to local history, traditional knowledge, and context specificities.

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Water sensitivity and context specificity – concept and context in Water-Sensitive Urban Design for secondary cities

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Sustainable Water Management: Understanding the Socioeconomic and Cultural Dimensions

Sustainable Water Management: Understanding the Socioeconomic and Cultural Dimensions

Reviewing Historic Urban Water Transitions to Advance Water-Sensitive Urban Design for Bhuj, India

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