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Cities are organic, highly divided (socially, economically, politically) social spaces. These divisions manifest spatially, and ensuring the ‘right to the city’ is a difficult task. Evidence suggests that macro-approaches such as Integrated Water Resources Management or Integrated Urban Water Management are difficult to implement. Yet, opportunities for positive social change often arise. How to ensure that these opportunities result in collective social good? In this seminar, Corrine Cash, Mount Allison University, and Larry Swatuk, University of Waterloo, critically reflect on the appropriate entry points for urban water security. Their findings show that change requires organization, persistence, and innovation, that positive outcomes may be fungible, and that negative outcomes are opportunities for reflection and reorganization. Their research highlights factors that are necessary for equitable, sustainable and affordable outcomes: collective, cross-sectoral and participatory decision-making; actions that are framed in a deliberately non-political way and projects that are underpinned by influential third-party involvement.
Whether some or all of these are necessary, however, is not clear. Drawing on evidence from a series of case studies, the speakers point to the necessary conditions to ensure that effective efforts in support of urban water security are fungible and scalable within and across cities.
Information on participating / attending:
Please register by Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GU-Hg1GMSwyWugbZ6S1dhQ
Date:
05/25/2022 17:00 - 05/25/2022 18:30
Registration deadline:
05/25/2022
Event venue:
Online
53121 Bonn
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/19/2022
Sender/author:
Susanne Heinke
Department:
Public Relations
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event71706
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