Water stressed cities: individual choice, access to water and pathways to resilience in sub-Saharan Africa

缺水城市：撒哈拉以南非洲地区的个人选择、水资源获取和恢复力途径

• 批准号: MR/X022943/1
• 负责人: Adrian Healy
• 金额: $ 75.76万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX022943%2F1
• 关键词: Water; stressed; cities; individual; choice

Building resilience to water crises is recognised as one of the primary challenges facing human society today. The pressures are particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where rapid rates of urbanization and economic growth - combined with the challenge of climate change and unsustainable water management practices - create both slow burn and rapid onset water stress. As governments struggle to provide safe, adequate and reliable supplies of water to households and firms, these actors are implementing other means of securing their water supplies to ensure their own resilience. This role of individual agency in shaping collective resilience outcomes is one of the least explored areas of resilience research, yet experience demonstrates it is of vital significance when governmental capacity to act is stretched to its limits. My fellowship addresses this gap and strengthens understanding of the interplay between individual choices and the cumulative resilience of urban areas, and their wider communities. It draws together human and more-than-human concepts of resilience to provide a fuller understanding of the scope of structure and of agency in shaping resilience outcomes and the implications of this for strengthening the governance of urban water resilience in water stressed cities.Initial research has identified the nature of individual water practices and revealed the choices underpinning these practices. The research has highlighted the positive effects individual actions can have, both for personal and for collective resilience outcomes. It has also identified the complex spillover effects resulting from these choices, including risks to water quality, over-abstraction and compound economic and social effects of inequalities in water access. This renewal proposal builds on the research undertaken in the first four years of my fellowship to now consider the implications of existing practices for future governance arrangements, with a particular consideration of co-governance approaches. A key aspect of the proposal is to further explore how individual actions can act to transform the structures of urban water supplies through adaptive (and maladaptive) behaviours. The research combines knowledge from the global south and the global north to support the development of a more inclusive understanding of resilience concepts.The research continues to focus on four, linked, case-study contexts: Lagos, Nigeria; Cape Town, South Africa; Windhoek, Namibia, and Dodoma, Tanzania. The inter-disciplinary approach is also retained - combining insights from hydrogeology, behavioural science and human geography.

增强抵御水危机的能力被认为是当今人类社会面临的主要挑战之一。撒哈拉以南非洲地区（SSA）的压力尤其严重，那里快速的城市化和经济增长，加上气候变化的挑战和不可持续的水资源管理做法，造成了缓慢燃烧和快速发生的水资源压力。当政府努力向家庭和企业提供安全、充足和可靠的供水时，这些参与者正在采取其他措施来确保供水，以确保自身的恢复能力。个体机构在塑造集体复原力成果中的作用是复原力研究中探索最少的领域之一，但经验表明，当政府的行动能力达到极限时，这一作用至关重要。我的研究金解决了这一差距，并加强了对个人选择与城市地区及其更广泛社区的累积复原力之间相互作用的理解。它汇集了人类和超人类的复原力概念，以更全面地理解塑造复原力结果的结构和机构的范围，以及这对加强缺水城市的城市水复原力治理的影响。 初步研究确定了个别水做法的性质，并揭示了支持这些做法的选择。该研究强调了个人行为对个人和集体复原力结果可以产生的积极影响。它还确定了这些选择所产生的复杂溢出效应，包括水质风险、过度抽取以及水资源获取不平等造成的复合经济和社会影响。这项更新提案建立在我前四年的研究基础上，现在考虑现有实践对未来治理安排的影响，特别考虑共同治理方法。该提案的一个关键方面是进一步探索个人行动如何通过适应性（和适应不良）行为来改变城市供水结构。该研究结合了南半球和北半球的知识，以支持对复原力概念形成更具包容性的理解。该研究继续关注四个相互关联的案例研究背景：尼日利亚拉各斯；南非开普敦；纳米比亚温得和克和坦桑尼亚多多马。跨学科的方法也被保留——结合了水文地质学、行为科学和人文地理学的见解。