Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.10
Carlien Donkor, Matteo D’Agostino
This interview highlights the extensive research project African Water Cities by architectural studio NLÉ, which explores intersections of rapid urbanization and climate change in the African context. NLÉ proposes new strategies for addressing water, culture and heritage management in Africa as Sub-Saharan Africa experiences the second-fastest rates of urbanization and population growth in the world. The discussion also addresses whether and how these strategies fit within the scope of the UN SDGs.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.17
Danna Albanyan
Transforming port infrastructure to meet the increasing demands of urbanization and modernization has been a contentious topic for decades, with push and pull between preserving historic structures and addressing sustainability, economic feasibility and tourism (Babalis 2018). This article takes an interdisciplinary view of these debates by exploring how restoring port infrastructure heritage can align key pillars of sustainable development: a strong local economy, water and sanitation, and social and cultural identity. An ongoing restoration project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, serves as a case study of integrative approaches and strategic objectives implemented by project developers and government stakeholders. The project addresses the challenge of rebuilding sustainable and resilient port infrastructure while still preserving heritage and making room for modern urban developments. The approach presented potentially creates new arenas for water and heritage management in spaces that have experienced rapid urban change and commercial exploitation in ways that have affected historic port infrastructure and human well-being.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.pref
A. Lusigi
Leonardo da Vinci described water as “the driving force of all nature,” yet today, the world is facing a water crisis. If we reflect on the history of development interventions, we can see that people of various cultures have responded to similar hydrological situations by creating structures usingwhat they knew and what they had. Local solutions were efficient, and some continue to be efficient today, because people considered the limits imposed by climate and context, included members of their communities directly in water governance and passed on appropriate intangible social prac- tices down through the generations. And yet today, deforestation, unsustainable land use and poor disposal of industrial waste is polluting rivers and lakes, increasing gaps in access to safe water in many communities in Ghana and across Africa.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.15
Mariëtte Verhoeven, F. Gerritsen, Ö. Özçakır
The ancient Valens Aqueduct in the metropolis of Istanbul, Türkiye, has the potential to raise public awareness of historical water management as well as of current and future water supply challenges. This monument stands as a highly visible remnant of what was once the longest water supply line of the Roman world. Although recognized and preserved as a heritage object testifying to its multi- layered history, it has lost its original function and its relationship to water management. We present a program that aims to develop solutions for revitalizing its tangible and intangible values as a prime example of water supply, management and culture through the ages. In this way, this heritage object can regain a connection with water, and water can become an engine for sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.11
E. Eulisse
Two resolutions of UNESCO-IHP (2018 and 2021) have highlighted the importance of fostering water sustainability education through networked water museums and developing a world inventory (WIN) of these institutions. To achieve this goal, the Global Network of Water Museums has developed a methodology to initiate a worldwide census of water museums, interpretation centers and water- related heritage values. The benefits of adopting a common methodology are clear. By using a transnational toolkit it will be possible to highlight the large variety of valuable aquatic heritages and the paradigmatic models of human coexistence with water environments worldwide. All institutions involved in implementing the WIN at the regional and national level will be empowered to communicate and target the SDGs and provide inspiration through the use of holistic approaches and good practices inherited from our “watery past” to better plan future resilience.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.16
A. Bernard, Christopher Fullerton, Meisha Hunter, Tonja Koob Marking, Priyanka Sheth
Once North America’s longest constructed transportation system, the Erie Canalway has been in continuous operation for nearly 200 years (ASCE 2022; Goodstadt et al. 2020). The Canalway transformed New York City into the nation’s chief port and helped New York State (NYS) become a commercial, industrial and financial center (Library of Congress, n.d.; Hay 2014). Beyond moving people and goods, the Canalway carried ideas, innovations and social movements; it connected Europe, the US Eastern seaboard and the US interior; it has been credited with facilitating settlementefforts, advancing democracy and strengthening national identity (Goodstadt et al. 2020; Hay 2014). The system of the Erie Canalway is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the NY State and National Registers of Historic Places; it is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and is part of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. The Canalway contributes to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation, Infrastructure) through its resilience over two centuries and its repurposing from transportation infrastructure to a historic, cultural and recreational corridor. Its innovation captures the paradigm shift of water engineering for transport to water management in terms of ecology and culture. The Canalway also illustrates some of the challenges associated with SDG 6 (Water and Sanitation), especially in regard to water-related ecosystems.
伊利运河曾经是北美最长的运输系统，已经连续运营了近200年(ASCE 2022;Goodstadt et al. 2020)。运河使纽约市成为美国的主要港口，并帮助纽约州成为商业、工业和金融中心(国会图书馆，n.d;干草2014)。除了运送人员和货物，运河还承载着思想、创新和社会运动;它连接了欧洲、美国东海岸和美国内陆;它被认为有助于促进和解努力、推进民主和加强民族认同(Goodstadt et al. 2020;干草2014)。伊利运河系统是国家历史地标，并被列入纽约州和国家史迹名录;它是国家历史性土木工程地标，也是伊利运河国家遗产走廊的一部分。运河通过其两个世纪以来的韧性以及从运输基础设施到历史、文化和娱乐走廊的重新定位，为可持续发展目标9(工业、创新、基础设施)做出了贡献。它的创新体现了从交通用水工程到生态和文化用水管理的范式转变。运河还说明了与可持续发展目标6(水和卫生设施)相关的一些挑战，特别是在与水有关的生态系统方面。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2023.1.04
Eriberto Eulisse
In recent decades, a technologically driven water management paradigm has fostered a model of “domination over nature” with an unsustainable footprint. This paradigm has also alienated people and communities from their environment and from historical practices and forms of knowledge that involve managing and engaging with water directly. There is a need for a paradigm shift in managing water in a way that reconnects individuals to aquatic environments and water-related heritage and reflects the extraordinary transformation in our understanding of the need for biological diversity to sustain human life. The Global Network of Water Museums aims to stimulate a change of mindset toward long-term visions of water governance and heritage by reshaping contemporary thinking through education. With more than 80 members in 33 countries, this growing network promotes a better understanding of water history to build a “new culture of water” and inspire people to adopt more forward-looking uses of modern technology applied to water governance.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.14
Jonathan Bill Doe
Current efforts to integrate heritage practices in the sustainable management of wetlands in postcolonial nation-states assume that these practices have always existed in the forms they are now. The colonial order, whether deliberately or otherwise, suppressed many local traditional practices. The postcolonial authority’s adoption of Western science invariably continued the suppression, albeit in a more liberal form. In the Ramsar Convention, natural scientists were assigned the role of conserving wetlands ‘‘for the benefit of humankind in a way compatible with the maintenance of natural properties of the ecosystem.’’ This became known as the wise use principle. This article highlights the history of the Keta wetlands and proposes an integration of key knowledge holders into management plans for a wise use of wetlands in postcolonial states. The colonial and postcolonial regimes made the knowledge holders invisible. Modern imaginaries – Western legal institutions, Western science and Christianity – were privileged over local heritage practices. It therefore requires historical and heritage expertise to uncover local sustainable knowledge for integration into the Ramsar management plan, hence a wise use of wetlands in postcolonial states.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.02
R. Boelens
An appreciation of the diversity of world water cultures – past and present – is essential to recognizing the conflicts and solutions that exist within water management. This article analyzes the intricacies of water governance and politics. It argues for new ways to recognize and negotiate the value of local water cultures, and proposes the term “Riverhood” as a way to understand the political, technological and cultural arenas in which water rights and governance frameworks are being shaped in grassroots movements’ everyday practice, in interaction with rivers’ adjacent social and ecological communities (www.movingrivers.org).
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.01
J. Vel, A. Bedner, Tody Sasmitha Jiwa Utama, Hertasning Ichlas
There are important legal dimensions to the relationship between water and heritage. This paper reports on the challenges Indonesia is facing concerning water management. Age-old customary water governance systems exist in parts of the country and continue to influence local decisionmaking and water use practices. However, such heritage institutions can no longer safeguard local community water rights nor protect the environment. Since the 1990s, business power has been gradually overstepping customary socio-legal arrangements with negative effects on both the local population and water supply. Policy recommendations issued by the World Bank in 2004 supported opening paths to privatization. At present, national legislation and corporate interests have taken control of water management. Simultaneously, water heritage sites have been transformed into tourist attractions. Also, plantation companies promote land heritage issues when that serves their divide-and-rule strategies and turns public attention away from their water grabbing. A change in state legislation is needed that prioritizes the public instead of capitalist business interests regarding water supply and preservation. The lessons from heritage systems are very relevant to bringing about that change.
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