Community-based water tenure in equitable and transformative drought resilience

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100266
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In the search for promising pathways for equitable and transformative climate adaptation in low-income rural areas, the present study focuses on resilience to more variable and less predictable availability of precipitation and water resources. Equitable water governance is conceptualized as formal and informal polycentric decision-making that narrows infrastructure inequities and ensures equitable water resources allocation. Focusing on recognitional and procedural equity, vulnerable women's and men's community-based water tenure is starting point. Partnering with government in Zambia and with the Water Integrity Network in Kenya, field research in three communities in rural Zambia and in rural communities and a small town sharing several schemes in Kenya is conducted. These studies recognized horizontal polycentricity of community-based water tenure by identifying common features: communities' age-old drought resilience coping strategies to meet daily domestic water needs and daily or seasonal small-scale productive water needs, by tapping water from surface- and groundwater sources through multi-purpose infrastructure, both self-financed and publicly supported, and by ‘sharing’ water ‘in’ within the community and ‘sharing out’ with neighbouring communities and powerful third parties. Procedural equity implies inclusive, locally-led planning, design and implementation in polycentric vertical governance with governments and other support agencies from local to national level and vice versa. The four interventions studied were the installation of a a solar-powered borehole for multiple uses and local government's institutional framework for potential replication in Zambia, and post-construction support of small water systems and a planned megadam in Kenya. Further research on similar transformative approaches elsewhere is recommended.
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在公平和变革性抗旱中以社区为基础的水资源保有权
为寻找在低收入农村地区实现公平和变革性气候适应的可行途径,本研究将重点放在对降水和水资源可预测性较差且变化较大的适应能力上。公平水治理的概念是正式和非正式的多中心决策,可缩小基础设施的不平等,确保水资源的公平分配。以承认公平和程序公平为重点,以弱势妇女和男子的社区水使用权为起点。与赞比亚政府和肯尼亚水诚信网络合作,在赞比亚农村地区的三个社区以及肯尼亚的农村社区和一个共享多个计划的小镇开展了实地研究。这些研究确认了社区水权的横向多中心性,确定了共同特征:社区自古以来就有的抗旱应对策略,通过自筹资金和公共支持的多用途基础设施从地表水和地下水源取水,在社区内 "分享 "水资源,并与邻近社区和有实力的第三方 "分享 "水资源,以满足日常家庭用水需求和日常或季节性小规模生产用水需求。程序公平意味着在多中心垂直治理中,由政府和其他支持机构(从地方到国家,反之亦然)进行包容性的、由地方主导的规划、设计和实施。所研究的四项干预措施包括:在赞比亚安装太阳能井眼,供多种用途;建立地方政府的制度框架,以便进行潜在的推广;在肯尼亚为小型供水系统和规划中的巨型水坝提供施工后支持。建议进一步研究其他地方类似的变革方法。
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Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Environmental Science-General Environmental Science
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