A tale of two cities: evidence from the Global South on established versus emerging cities’ approaches to adaptive and sustainable water governance
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چکیده
The call for adaptive governance approaches to guide the sustainable transformation of urban water management systems is growing amongst scholars and policy professionals. Responding this call, Global North (GN) has focused significant evidence-based research on issues scale, capacity, institutional arrangements support such transformations, whereas evidence from South remains nascent. This paper contributes body knowledge South, discussing how operates under different local contexts conditions. Following empirical investigations in two cities Bangladesh, which involved 58 semi-structured interviews, 17 oral histories, secondary data analysis, drawing capacity attributes framework, we examined hybridization might deliver conditions necessary guiding a governance. revealed that large-scale system as Dhaka currently experiencing “lock-in” due ongoing investments infrastructure, inappropriate transfer technology GN contexts, bureaucratic complexity, general resistance change. In contrast, relatively smaller represented by city Mymensingh was found be more open, flexible, showcasing key enabling factors growth. Overall, study sheds light role context scales (i.e., / organizational individual) reveals development linked including multi-level polycentric institutions, participatory approaches, networking, bridging organizations, leadership. Collectively these findings offer insights into can inform processes
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1708-3087']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5751/es-13599-280138