Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.06
F. Wijsen
Water is central to most religions. However, the treatment of water in those religions is often far from holy. With examples from the Netherlands and Indonesia, this article shares insights concerning the intricate link between water, religion and world views. In recent decades, religious and interreligious institutions and organizations have taken stands against wastage and pollution and for the sustainable uses of water. As it turns out, religion can be an obstacle to, but also a source of, environment-friendly practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.09
Catalina Rey-Hernández, I. Bobbink
The Chinampas are a system of floating gardens in the Valley of Mexico, including Mexico City, allowing for effective agriculture and sustainable water management since approximately 200 BC (Rojas-Rabiela 1993). Vernacular water systems like the Chinampas create opportunities for landscape architects to learn from historical approaches to water management to solve today’s challenges (Bobbink and Ryu 2017; Bobbink 2019). Through a layered visual analysis – the illustrative method – vernacular knowledge about the Chinampas was collected and communicated by drawings to gather (new) visions toward more resilient, circular and interdisciplinary approaches (Surajaras and Rey 2021). The research is part of the “Circular Water Stories LAB,” TU Delft, the Netherlands (https://circularwaterstories.org). Once the case study has been systematically documented, its circular character provides insights into landscape-based approaches to water-related cultivation. From there, it is possible to discuss the value of the traditional water system in addressing today’s challenges.
Chinampas是墨西哥山谷的一个漂浮花园系统，包括墨西哥城，自公元前200年以来，它就实现了有效的农业和可持续的水管理(Rojas-Rabiela 1993)。像奇南帕斯这样的本土水系统为景观设计师提供了从历史上学习水管理方法以解决当今挑战的机会(Bobbink and Ryu 2017;Bobbink 2019)。通过分层视觉分析-说明性方法-收集并通过图纸传达有关Chinampas的本地知识，以收集(新的)愿景，以更有弹性，循环和跨学科的方法(Surajaras和Rey 2021)。这项研究是荷兰代尔夫特理工大学(https://circularwaterstories.org)“循环水故事实验室”的一部分。一旦案例研究被系统地记录下来，它的循环特征为基于景观的水相关种植方法提供了见解。在此基础上，可以讨论传统水系统在应对当今挑战方面的价值。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.16
N. Dolman
Living with water is an essential part of the cultural heritage of the city of Zwolle, NL. The historic development of the city within its water systems has been recognized as an inspiration for climate adaptation. In July 2019, the city of Zwolle presented its Adaptation Strategy. Building on its water heritage, a cohesive blue-green network (city scale) in the city can develop and expand, with room for urban sponges (neighborhood scale) that will combat heat stress. This will create a new natural heritage that is recognized and supported by the community. In this plan, various components are interconnected and will strengthen the blue-green network as the physical basis of an adaptation strategy to make Zwolle and its surroundings climate proof and adaptive. Zwolle’s blue-green transformation aims at achieving SDG 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities” and has the potential to fulfill targets regarding climate action (SDG13), the protection of water quality (SDG 6) and the restoration of biodiversity (SDG 14 and 15).
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.11
Maria Estefania Gioia
Reflecting on water and heritage as a system linking nature and culture raises challenges and opportunities for both water and heritage management. This case study explores what integrating water and heritage management means for Mantua and Sabbioneta, two cities in Northern Italy listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because of artistic, architectural and urban values associated with the Renaissance. It considers how World Heritage management recalls water-based visions, interactions between heritage institutions and water institutions and the role of water in innovative heritage projects promoting local communities’ involvement and challenging partnerships. It argues that embedding water and heritage relationships for sustainable development could be recognized as an opportunity for the Mantua and Sabbionetta World Heritage Site to integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 8 with goals 4, 12, 15 and 17.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.2.08
Ana Maria Fernandez Maldonado, M. Dąbrowski, Kasia Pistorek, Wout Van den Toorn Vrijthoff
Water and water-linked heritage play a very important role for many cities and regions. They are at the center of many places’ identities and key activities. Consider historic waterfronts and infrastructures such as bridges, port facilities, sluices, dams, water towers, mills and specific water-related landscapes, both in the city and in the countryside. Consider also intangible aspects of water-linked heritage, from traditional water management practices to values and local stories. These all have the potential to galvanize the interests of diverse stakeholders and provide a foundation for an ecosystemic approach to sustainable urban and regional development. This is not only because of positive values associated with water, but also because water-linked heritage valorization can effectively connect environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability. By working with water-linked heritage as a vector of the ecosystemic transformation of cities and regions, one can span multiple boundaries. First, doing so can attract a diverse set of stakeholders representing different disciplines and policy sectors, engaging them in place-making and the co-creation of transition strategies and tactical activities. Second, water allows for defining functional geographies and strategically linking diverse places connected by water bodies, cutting across administrative boundaries. By drawing upon five international case studies involved in the Interreg WaVE project, the authors have elaborated a typology to classify and compare different approaches to heritage valorization.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.10
Jean-François Vereecke, Sandrine Deveycx
Today, urban territories are under pressure to accommodate all the needs of growing cities. New designs and approaches are needed that build on historical developments and respond to the shifting and overlapping needs of water, cities and their territories. Due to these inexhaustible demands, it is often common to overlook sustainable development and heritage. However, diagrammatic analysis such as the canvas approach can help us understand how people have changed cities and institutions over time and allows us to consider complex economic, political, social and cultural interactions. This ecosystem approach opens a new path for territories and structures aimed at promoting dialogue between citizens and those who are key players in the sustainable development of cities. Together with mapping, the canvas helps build systemic and evolutionary resilience of water systems and resources, incorporating cultural and ecological values.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.pref
H. Ovink
In 1977 the first UN Conference on Water took place in Mar del Plata, Argentina. We were already aware of the need for water security for all, yet unable to figure out how to get there. The effects of pollution and emissions on climate and the interlinkages with water were not left undiscussed. We also discussed the need for action on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and more. But there was no clear follow up, no roadmap nor institutional capacity, let alone political or societal ownership. Water, always perceived as a sector, continues to be perceived as a sector. A sector to call on when the pipes fail to function or when water floods our communities or is absent or too polluted to use. That perspective is not only unrealistic, but has led to the abuse of this vital yet scarce resource. The mismanagement and undervaluing of water has helped damage the hydrological cycle, undermining everything we value and want to achieve.
{"title":"Leveraging the Past for Better Futures","authors":"H. Ovink","doi":"10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.pref","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.pref","url":null,"abstract":"In 1977 the first UN Conference on Water took place in Mar del Plata, Argentina. We were already aware of the need for water security for all, yet unable to figure out how to get there. The effects of pollution and emissions on climate and the interlinkages with water were not left undiscussed. We also discussed the need for action on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and more. But there was no clear follow up, no roadmap nor institutional capacity, let alone political or societal ownership. Water, always perceived as a sector, continues to be perceived as a sector. A sector to call on when the pipes fail to function or when water floods our communities or is absent or too polluted to use. That perspective is not only unrealistic, but has led to the abuse of this vital yet scarce resource. The mismanagement and undervaluing of water has helped damage the hydrological cycle, undermining everything we value and want to achieve.","PeriodicalId":415008,"journal":{"name":"Blue Papers","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117209138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Blue Papers journal provides a platform for the growing network, with the first issues launched in time for the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, 22–24 March 2023, which coincides with the Midterm Review of the UN Water Action Decade. A growing number of people have come to realize that valuing water needs to go beyond technological, political and economic changes. The conference provides the background for a broad exploration of the role that culture, heritage and social practices play in current water challenges, and those they can play to support future inclusive and sustainable development. This requires an advanced engagement with the social, cultural and intrinsic value of water, by creating a new embedded water awareness 2.0.
{"title":"Editorial Issue 1/2022","authors":"C. Hein, Matteo D’Agostino, Carlien Donkor, Queenie Lin, Hilde Sennema, Zuzanna Sliwinska","doi":"10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.ed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.ed","url":null,"abstract":"The Blue Papers journal provides a platform for the growing network, with the first issues launched in time for the UN 2023 Water Conference in New York, 22–24 March 2023, which coincides with the Midterm Review of the UN Water Action Decade. A growing number of people have come to realize that valuing water needs to go beyond technological, political and economic changes. The conference provides the background for a broad exploration of the role that culture, heritage and social practices play in current water challenges, and those they can play to support future inclusive and sustainable development. This requires an advanced engagement with the social, cultural and intrinsic value of water, by creating a new embedded water awareness 2.0.","PeriodicalId":415008,"journal":{"name":"Blue Papers","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123980048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.01
C. Hein
At a time of climate change, sea level rise, flooding, drought, and changing groundwater and rainwater patterns, water managers need to adjust their current practices and develop new approaches. Technological innovation remains a key element in adaptation and mitigation; but technological innovation is not enough. Changing water patterns will affect everyone and every structure. How we manage water depends on local conditions, spatial and social developments and cultures as well as decisions of the past. That is why water management needs to go hand in hand with sustainable practices that are connected to the context of specific places, social systems and cultures and their changes over time. Sustainable development also requires recognizing the long-term impact of buildings and human-made structures. They may have been erected in the past for specific purposes and functions that have disappeared or are no longer welcome, yet the buildings and landscapes still exist. Sometimes they are valued cultural heritage; sometimes they are considered a nuisance, standing in the way of future development. Finally, water managers and other decision-makers may need new tools and methodologies for a holistic approach to sustainable development, which accounts for local particularities, achieves buy-in from society at large, and acknowledges historic path dependencies. As a first step toward such an approach, this chapter reflects on the UN Sustainable Development Goals through the lens of water and culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.58981/bluepapers.2022.1.05
N. Doorn
Water consumption and freshwater supplies are unevenly shared worldwide, while droughts and floods as extreme climate events are becoming more common. Water challenges cannot be addressed by technical means only. We must reflect on the trade-offs between economic and environmental concerns, and identify which water-related risks to prioritize. Thus, water ethics become an important analytical key in posing two critical questions: what values are at stake when we address the world’s water challenges, and who is affected by these water challenges? This links to questions of responsibility: to the extent that these water challenges are related to past behavior, the “past” may create a responsibility to address these present challenges, including when they materialize in other regions.
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