TY - JOUR
T1 - Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa
T2 - future directions for research and practice
AU - Rodina, Lucy
AU - Baker, Lawrence A.
AU - Galvin, Mary
AU - Goldin, Jaqueline
AU - Harris, Leila M.
AU - Manungufala, Thomani
AU - Musemwa, Muchaparara
AU - Sutherland, Catherine
AU - Ziervogel, Gina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - Drawing from the proceedings of an expert workshop with academics, researchers, government and NGO participants working in diverse countries in southern Africa and beyond, this paper reviews the discourse on resilience, both conceptually and in practice. We highlight opportunities to develop and apply a more situated, equity-sensitive and context-relevant understanding of resilience, particularly in the water sector. To pursue more just and resilient water futures in highly unequal and water stressed regions, we propose that researchers and practitioners (1) place greater emphasis on the transformative potential of resilience, (2) broaden the social dimensions of resilience to account more fully for intangible and other social factors, (3) engage critically with the decision-making processes and practices of building resilience, (4) contribute to the development of indicators and guidelines for building just and resilient water futures, (5) strengthen the role of situated knowledges, (6) critically engage with scale and boundaries in complex adaptive systems, and (7) strengthen the policy–science–civil society interface.
AB - Drawing from the proceedings of an expert workshop with academics, researchers, government and NGO participants working in diverse countries in southern Africa and beyond, this paper reviews the discourse on resilience, both conceptually and in practice. We highlight opportunities to develop and apply a more situated, equity-sensitive and context-relevant understanding of resilience, particularly in the water sector. To pursue more just and resilient water futures in highly unequal and water stressed regions, we propose that researchers and practitioners (1) place greater emphasis on the transformative potential of resilience, (2) broaden the social dimensions of resilience to account more fully for intangible and other social factors, (3) engage critically with the decision-making processes and practices of building resilience, (4) contribute to the development of indicators and guidelines for building just and resilient water futures, (5) strengthen the role of situated knowledges, (6) critically engage with scale and boundaries in complex adaptive systems, and (7) strengthen the policy–science–civil society interface.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85030853418
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.09.001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85030853418
SN - 1877-3435
VL - 26-27
SP - 143
EP - 151
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
ER -