Understanding institutional capacity for urban water transitions

Understanding institutional capacity for urbanwater transitions

a School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash Water for Liveability, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia b School of Social Sciences, Monash Water for Liveability, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia c School of Social Sciences, Monash Water for Liveability, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Aust...

Urban water-related environmental transitions in Southeast Asia

This article reviews water-related urban environmental conditions in Southeast Asia. It argues that the development of urban environmental challenges in the region follows a unique pattern compared with those experienced in the now developed world. The new pattern is defined by the so called time–space telescoping of the development process. The process of time–space telescoping reduces the lev...

Understanding Institutional Emergence:

Understanding the Urban Poor’s Vulnerabilities in Sanitation and Water Supply

Many millions of urban dwellers are excluded from formal systems of water and sanitation service delivery. Without access to piped water and acceptable sanitation services, households and individuals are forced to use limited supplies of water, often of poor quality, from unreliable sources and usually at a high cost. Safe sanitation and the means to practice hygienic behaviours are often entir...

Action Research’s Potential to Foster Institutional Change for Urban Water Management

The paper discusses the potential of action research to meet the challenges entailed in institutional design for urban water management. Our overall aim is to briefly present action research and discuss its methodological merits with regard to the challenges posed by the different conceptual bases for extrapolating the effects of institutional design on institutional change. Thus, our aim is to...