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1 Barker, C. 2012. Cultural studies: theory and practice. 4th ed. London, UK: Sage. 552p.
Sociology ; Cultural factors ; Cultural behaviour ; Social behaviour ; Sex ; Languages ; Modernization ; Gender ; Women ; Ethnic groups ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Urbanization ; Ideology ; Biology
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 306 G000 BAR Record No: H046472)
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2 Drechsel, Pay; Mahjoub, O.; Keraita, Bernard. 2015. Social and cultural dimensions in wastewater use. In Drechsel, Pay; Qadir, Manzoor; Wichelns, D. (Eds.). Wastewater: economic asset in an urbanizing world. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. pp.75-92.
Social aspects ; Cultural factors ; Religion ; Wastewater treatment ; Water use ; Agriculture ; Drinking water treatment ; Water scarcity ; Gender ; Education ; Guidelines ; Health hazards ; Risk assessment ; Public participation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy SF Record No: H046962)
3 Bohensky, E.; Reyers, B.; van Jaarsveld, A.; Fabricius, C. (Eds.) 2004. Ecosystem services in the Gariep Basin: a contribution to the millennium ecosystem assessment. Stellenbosch, South Africa: Stellenbosch University. African SUN Media. SUN Press. 152p.
Ecosystem services ; Assessment ; Water supply ; Groundwater ; Freshwater ; Water quality ; Food production ; Cereals ; Livestock ; Energy sources ; Energy demand ; Mineral resources ; Biodiversity conservation ; Species ; Land use ; Technology ; Socioeconomic environment ; Living standards ; Urbanization ; Air quality ; Cultural factors ; Economic policy ; Corporate culture ; Decision making ; Legal aspects / South Africa / Gariep Basin / Gauteng
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 577 G178 BOH Record No: H047357)
http://www.millenniumassessment.org/documents_sga/SAfMA_Gariep_Basin_non-printable.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047357.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047357.pdf
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4 Reason, P.; Bradbury, H. (Eds.) 2001. Handbook of action research: participative inquiry and practice. London, UK: SAGE Publications. 468p.
Research methods ; Participatory approaches ; Group approaches ; Social change ; Gender ; Women in development ; Public participation ; Cooperation ; Social institutions ; Interorganizational relationships ; Enterprises ; Educational institutions ; Universities ; Linguistics ; Information technology ; Scientists ; Undergraduates ; Social workers ; Communities ; Indigenous knowledge ; Natural resources management ; Sustainable development ; Research projects ; Experimental design ; Clinical investigations ; Arts ; Photography ; Cultural factors ; Case studies / USA / Africa / Guatemala / Tanzania
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 300.72 G000 REA Record No: H047660)
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5 Cornwall, A.; Edwards, J. (Eds.) 2014. Feminisms, empowerment and development: changing women's lives. London, UK: Zed Books. 332p. (Feminisms and Development)
Gender mainstreaming ; Empowerment ; Women in development ; Social change ; Women's organizations ; Girls education ; Development programmes ; State intervention ; Bureaucracy ; Political aspects ; Conflict ; Legal aspects ; Female labour ; Financing ; Households ; Landlessness ; Cultural factors ; Music ; Television ; Religion ; Rural areas ; Case studies / Egypt / Ghana / Pakistan / Bangladesh / Sierra Leone / Brazil / Palestine / Bahia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 305.42 G000 COR Record No: H047661)
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6 Young, I. M. 2011. Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press. 286p.
Philosophy ; Political systems ; Democracy ; Legal aspects ; Capitalism ; Social groups ; Participatory approaches ; Public participation ; Social institutions ; Communities ; Urban areas ; Cultural factors ; Social behaviour ; Discrimination ; Labor ; Empowerment ; Social welfare ; Education
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 320.011 G000 YOU Record No: H047670)
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7 Smakhtin, Vladimir; Bharati, Luna. 2016. Environmental flows: keeping the basin rivers alive. In Bharati, Luna; Sharma, Bharat R.; Smakhtin, Vladimir (Eds.). The Ganges River Basin: status and challenges in water, environment and livelihoods. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.175-187. (Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World)
Environmental flows ; Water resources development ; River basins ; Runoff ; Assessment ; Water policy ; Riparian zones ; Cultural factors ; Ecological factors ; Hydrological factors / Nepal / India / Bangladesh / Ganges River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047815)
8 Molden, O.; Griffin, N.; Meehan, K. 2016. The cultural dimensions of household water security: the case of Kathmandu’s stone spout systems. Water International, 41(7):982-997. (Special issue: Putting Practice into Policy). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1251677]
Water security ; Household consumption ; Domestic water ; Water supply ; Water use ; Water distribution systems ; Traditional technology ; Ancestral technology ; Cultural factors ; Water governance ; Political aspects ; Legislation ; State intervention ; Urban development ; Social institutions ; Communities / Nepal / Kathmandu / Lalitpur
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047871)
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This article contributes knowledge to the under-studied cultural aspects of household water security through the case of Kathmandu’s ancient stone waterspouts. It asks why and how ‘traditional’ water supply systems persist as a form of water provision, and examines governance arrangements that pose challenges to these systems. It demonstrates that spout systems are critical sources of secure water supply, particularly for underserved populations. Also, the religious, cultural and social significance of spouts enables community autonomy and facilitates their persistence. However, conflicts between cultural heritage and drinking water law and policy undermine spout revitalization efforts and the entire system’s integrity.
9 Rao, N. (Ed.) 2015. M. S. Swaminathan in conversation with Nitya Rao: from reflections on my life to the ethics and politics of science. New Delhi, India: Academic Foundation. 227p.
Agricultural research ; Green revolution ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Farmers ; Social aspects ; Mobilization ; Cultural factors ; Diversity ; Human rights ; Hunger ; Right to food ; Agricultural planning ; Strategies ; Seeds ; Sciences ; Technology ; Economic aspects ; Governmental interrelations ; Political aspects ; Public policy ; Ethics ; Standards ; Demography ; Resource management ; Governance ; Agrarian structure ; Education ; Motivation ; Information exchange ; Geneticists ; Biographies ; Interviews / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 576.5092 G635 RAO Record No: H047823)
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10 Gopal, B. 2016. A conceptual framework for environmental flows assessment based on ecosystem services and their economic valuation. Ecosystem Services, 21(Part A):53-58. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.07.013]
Environmental flows ; Ecosystem services ; Economic value ; Ecosystem approaches ; Assessment ; Rivers ; Stream flow ; Rehabilitation ; Water quality ; Living standards ; Social aspects ; Ecological indicators ; Cultural factors
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048052)
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In recent decades, environmental flows has emerged a major instrument for sustaining and/or rehabilitating the ecosystem functions and services of rivers worldwide. The holistic methodologies of assessment of environmental flows (=EFlows) take into account the physical, biological, water quality and socio-cultural as well as livelihood aspects of riverine ecosystems, and increasingly depend upon consultations with experts and local communities to make a negotiated socio-political decision by consensus within the society. This paper presents a conceptual framework for the assessment of EFlows on the basis of a change in total ecosystem services and their total economic value with the alteration of flow regimes. Such an assessment would consider the gain and loss of ecosystem services both upstream and downstream of the point of intervention which alters the flow regime. It is also proposed that the economic valuation should provide for appropriate weightages to ecosystem services with a strong social, cultural and livelihood bearing in regional/local context. It is further argued that a top-down approach to E-Flows assessment should be followed wherever possible to convince the policy makers.
11 McCartney, Matthew; Nyambe, I. A. 2017. Ecosystem services: opportunities and threats. In Lautze, Jonathan; Phiri, Z.; Smakhtin, Vladimir; Saruchera, D. (Eds.). 2017. The Zambezi River Basin: water and sustainable development. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.125-157. (Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World)
Ecosystem services ; Farmers ; Riparian zones ; Economic development ; Climate change ; Living standards ; Poverty ; Water resources ; Water use ; Wetlands ; Fisheries ; Cultural factors ; Wetlands ; Population growth / Africa / Angola / Botswana / Malawi / Mozambique / Nambia / Tanzania / Zambia / Zambizi River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048276)
12 Havinga, I.; Bogaart, P. W.; Hein, L.; Tuia, D. 2020. Defining and spatially modelling cultural ecosystem services using crowdsourced data. Ecosystem Services, 43:101091. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101091]
Ecosystem services ; Cultural factors ; Spatial analysis ; Modelling ; Assessment ; Biodiversity ; Economic aspects ; Diffusion of information ; Social media ; Landscape ; Observation / Netherlands / Texel
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049754)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041620300334/pdfft?md5=a0a68b7cc968f1a2e98b56ff6193556e&pid=1-s2.0-S2212041620300334-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049754.pdf
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Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are some of the most valuable contributions of ecosystems to human well-being. Nevertheless, these services are often underrepresented in ecosystem service assessments. Defining CES for the purposes of spatial quantification has been challenging because it has been difficult to spatially model CES. However, rapid increases in mobile network connectivity and the use of social media have generated huge amounts of crowdsourced data. This offers an opportunity to define and spatially quantify CES. We inventoried established CES conceptualisations and sources of crowdsourced data to propose a CES definition and typology for spatial quantification. Furthermore, we present the results of three spatial models employing crowdsourced data to measure CES on Texel, a coastal island in the Netherlands. Defining CES as information-flows best enables service quantification. A general typology of eight services is proposed. The spatial models produced distributions consistent with known areas of cultural importance on Texel. However, user representativeness and measurement uncertainties affect our results. Ethical considerations must also be taken into account. Still, crowdsourced data is a valuable source of information to define and model CES due to the level of detail available. This can encourage the representation of CES in ecosystem service assessments.
13 Elwell, T. L.; Lopez-Carr, D.; Gelcich, S.; Gaines, S. D. 2020. The importance of cultural ecosystem services in natural resource-dependent communities: implications for management. Ecosystem Services, 44:101123. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101123]
Ecosystem services ; Natural resources ; Ecosystem management ; Communities ; Indigenous peoples ; Living standards ; Aesthetic value ; Recreation ; Cultural factors ; Estuaries / Latin America / Chile
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049861)
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In defining cultural ecosystem services as the recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits people obtain from ecosystems, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment conveyed a key aspect of nature-society relationships. Yet, it is reasonable to suppose that this aspect may apply more to to contexts where people enjoy more leisure time to admire a scenic vista or recreate in nature. How relevant is this aspect of nature-society relationships for people who rely more on natural resources, or provisioning ecosystem services, for livelihoods? We integrated qualitative and quantitative field research methods to examine how people in natural resource-dependent communities perceived the importance of different ecosystem services to wellbeing. We found that people with varying degrees of dependence on coastal, marine, and terrestrial provisioning ecosystem services perceived cultural ecosystem services—particularly scenic beauty, biodiversity, and space to recreate—as very important to wellbeing, and also perceived increases in wellbeing following interventions to foment small-scale tourism and conservation. In terms of global ecosystem management, our findings imply that (1) aesthetics and recreation matter, even if these cultural ecosystem services appear more often in the literature, (2) more efforts may be taken to make cultural ecosystem services more accessible, (3) small-scale tourism and conservation interventions may be reconsidered as potential means to increase wellbeing, and (4) reframing ecosystem management as explicit efforts to augment wellbeing may help to garner more widespread support and participation.
14 Dube, B. 2020. Deficit thinking in South Africa's water allocation reform discourses: a cultural discourse perspective. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 21p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1835926]
Water allocation ; Reforms ; Water resources ; Cultural factors ; Social aspects ; Apartheid ; Colonialism ; Water use ; Education ; Agriculture ; Legislation ; Policies ; Communities / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050025)
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The article focuses on how deficit thinking emerges from the statements made by some of the participants of a study on water allocation reform in South Africa. It draws from interviews and focus group discussions from a select few participants of the qualitative study. The application of the deconstructive strategy to analyse data revealed perceptions of deficiencies in the capacities of Black people in agriculture as well as in government offices. The study found that expressions of concern regarding threats on the environment when and if water is allocated to Black communities were based on assumptions of inherent deficiencies within the Black communities. This article characterises this perception as ‘deficit thinking’. The article provides the basis for such characterisation by explaining the origins and meaning of the concept of deficit thinking. It argues for the need to consider the impact of social forces such as apartheid discriminatory practices on the socio-economic constitution of the Black person. The article concludes that deficit thinking needs to be considered and confronted as a challenge trumping water reform. It warns of the implicitness and covertness of deficit thinking and recommends that discourses reflect the realities of post-1994 South Africa which emerged from colonial and apartheid rule.
15 Chowdhury, J. R.; Parida, Y.; Goel, P. A. 2021. Does inequality-adjusted human development reduce the impact of natural disasters? A gendered perspective. World Development, 141:105394. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105394]
Natural disasters ; Social inequalities ; Gender ; Women's participation ; Flooding ; Vulnerability ; Mortality ; Agricultural sector ; Social change ; Cultural factors ; Political aspects ; Economic aspects ; Decision making ; Households ; Government ; Villages / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050259)
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This paper examines how inequality-adjusted human development (IHD) helps minimize male and female flood fatalities across 19 Indian states between 1983 and 2013. We investigate if a higher achievement in the IHD index has affected male and female flood deaths differently while controlling for direct spending on disaster adaptation measures and socio-political factors. The empirical results suggest that Indian states with better IHDI score experience lower flood fatalities in aggregate. A 10% increase in IHDI at the sample mean results in the probability of 38 fewer total deaths from floods. Furthermore, we find a gender-differentiated impact of disasters as males suffer fewer flood fatalities than females with a rise in IHDI. The findings suggest that an additional 10% increase in IHDI at the sample mean results in the probability of 26 fewer male deaths from floods, and the same 10% rise in IHDI shows the probability of 12 fewer female deaths due to floods. Women’s involvement in social, political, and economic decision-making measured through women’s participation in voting in elections, grant them access to flood mitigation and aversion measures, which can reduce the impact of a disaster. However, the current participation rate is not adequate to reduce female flood mortality substantially. Women’s socially constructed responsibilities impose constraints on their participation in activities outside the household, including their mobility to the non-agricultural sector, and therefore, reduce access to warning information, which can increase vulnerability to disasters.
16 Burt, Z.; Prasad, C. S. S.; Drechsel, Pay; Ray, I. 2021. The cultural economy of human waste reuse: perspectives from peri-urban Karnataka, India. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 11(3):386-397. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2021.196]
Waste management ; Human wastes ; Faecal sludge ; Excreta ; Resource recovery ; Organic fertilizers ; Cultural factors ; Periurban areas ; Caste systems ; Farmers' attitudes ; Agricultural workers ; Economic aspects ; Business models ; Sanitation / India / Karnataka / Dharwad / Bangalore
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050316)
https://iwaponline.com/washdev/article-pdf/11/3/386/889973/washdev0110386.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050316.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050316.pdf
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Safely managed waste reuse may be a sustainable way to protect human health and livelihoods in agrarian-based countries without adequate sewerage. The safe recovery and reuse of fecal sludge-derived fertilizer (FSF) has become an important policy discussion in low-income economies as a way to manage urban sanitation to benefit peri-urban agriculture. But what drives the user acceptance of composted fecal sludge? We develop a preference-ranking model to understand the attributes of FSF that contribute to its acceptance in Karnataka, India. We use this traditionally economic modeling method to uncover cultural practices and power disparities underlying the waste economy. We model farmowners and farmworkers separately, as the choice to use FSF as an employer versus as an employee is fundamentally different. We find that farmers who are willing to use FSF prefer to conceal its origins from their workers and from their own caste group. This is particularly the case for caste-adhering, vegetarian farmowners. We find that workers are open to using FSF if its attributes resemble cow manure, which they are comfortable handling. The waste economy in rural India remains shaped by caste hierarchies and practices, but these remain unacknowledged in policies promoting sustainable ‘business’ models for safe reuse. Current efforts under consideration toward formalizing the reuse sector should explicitly acknowledge caste practices in the waste economy, or they may perpetuate the size and scope of the caste-based informal sector.
17 Ghorbani, M.; Eskandari-Damaneh, H.; Cotton, M.; Ghoochani, O. M.; Borji, M. 2021. Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran. Climate and Development, 15p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1841601]
Water management ; Indigenous knowledge ; Climate change adaptation ; Resilience ; Participatory approaches ; Governance ; Water resources ; Water scarcity ; Water rights ; Farmers ; Land ownership ; Cultural factors ; Ecosystems ; Case studies ; Communities ; Villages / Iran Islamic Republic / Jiroft / Roozkin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050356)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17565529.2020.1841601?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050356.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050356.pdf
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Through an in-depth ethnographic case study, we explore water management practices within the Jiroft County province in Iran and discuss the applicability of indigenous knowledge of regional water management to the resource governance of arid regions across the world. We explore, through qualitative analysis, the relationship between community social structure, indigenous knowledge, water management technologies and practices, and water governance rules under conditions of anthropogenic climate change. From participant observational and interview data (n = 32), we find that historically-dependent community roles establish a social contract for water distribution. Cultural conventions establish linked hierarchies of water ownership, profit-sharing and social responsibility; collectively they construct an equitable system of role-sharing, social benefit distribution, socio-ecological resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of climate change-induced drought. We conclude that the combination of hierarchical land ownership-based water distribution and what we term ‘bilateral compensatory mutual assistance’ for the lowest-profit agricultural water users, provides a model of spontaneous common pool resource management that bolsters community drought resilience. We use this case to proffer recommendations for adapting other centralized, grey infrastructure and regulatory models of water management from lessons learned from this spontaneous adaptive management case.
18 Schneiderbauer, S.; Pisa, P. F.; Delves, J. L.; Pedoth, L.; Rufat, S.; Erschbamer, M.; Thaler, T.; Carnelli, F.; Granados-Chahin, S. 2021. Risk perception of climate change and natural hazards in global mountain regions: a critical review. Science of the Total Environment, 784:146957. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146957]
Climate change adaptation ; Weather hazards ; Disaster risk reduction ; Mountain ranges ; Water scarcity ; Cultural factors ; Indigenous peoples' knowledge ; Communities ; Awareness
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050367)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721020271/pdfft?md5=d671a40ed2ad12d43246157e55fc2b9c&pid=1-s2.0-S0048969721020271-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050367.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050367.pdf
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Mountains are highly sensitive to climate change. Their elevated areas provide essential ecosystem services both for the surrounding mountainous regions and particularly for adjacent lowlands. Impacts of a warmer climate affect these services and have negative consequences on the supply of water, on biodiversity and on protection from natural hazards. Mountain social-ecological systems are affected by these changes, which also influence communities' risk perception and responses to changing climate conditions. Therefore, to understand individual and societal responses to climate change in mountain areas, aspects and drivers of risk perception need to be scrutinised. This article presents the findings of a literature review of recent English language publications on risk perception in connection to climate change and related natural hazards in mountain regions worldwide. Studies were selected from recorded entries in JSTOR, Science Direct, Scopus and Web of Science covering the period 2000–2019 and analysed in two steps (structured exploratory analysis, n = 249 and in-depth analysis, n = 72) with respect to the studies' research question, methodology, geographical scope and risk perception drivers. The review reveals that socio-demographic factors, like gender, age and personal experiences, have a crucial impact on individual risk perception. Some of the less tangible but nevertheless decisive factors are important in mountain regions such as place attachment and socio-cultural practices. In conclusion, there is however little information in the literature which addresses the specific situation of risk perception in mountain areas and its influence on communities' responses to environmental changes. Further, we observed a strong gap concerning the integration of indigenous knowledge in risk perception research. Many studies overlook or oversimplify local knowledge and the cultural dimensions of risk perception. Based on these results, the paper identifies several gaps in research and knowledge which may influence the design of climate risk management strategies as well as on their successful implementation.
19 Klijn, F.; Marchand, M.; Meijer, K.; van der Most, H.; Stuparu, D. 2021. Tailored flood risk management: accounting for socio-economic and cultural differences when designing strategies. Water Security, 12:100084. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2021.100084]
Flooding ; Risk management ; Socioeconomic development ; Cultural factors ; Planning ; Strategies ; Sustainable development ; Economic development ; Policies ; Institutions ; Governance ; Indicators / Netherlands / Bangladesh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050450)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312421000018/pdfft?md5=8c6409f3f1c0e5be35a8e116c06bcc3e&pid=1-s2.0-S2468312421000018-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050450.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050450.pdf
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Climate change and socio-economic development result in increasing flood risk which challenges flood risk management policy making and practice. Each situation, however, is different and calls for not only understanding the natural context, but also the socio-economic and cultural context. Only then Flood Risk Management strategies can be designed that are not only 1) fit for purpose but also 2) feasible for local implementation and 3) sustainable into the future. Flood consequences that are accepted in some cultures (fatalist), may not be acceptable in other cultures (controlist). This calls for considering the local normative context in order to understand current differences in policy and practice. More importantly, the design of strategic alternatives for Flood Risk Management into the future should consider this socio-economic and cultural context as well because not every society aims for the same goals in the same proportion, nor is equally willing or capable to implement and maintain sophisticated infrastructure and dedicated institutions. Based on literature on cultural theory and national cultures, we hypothesized that acknowledging socio-economic and cultural differences would allow to better appreciate the rationale of current flood risk management policies and practices in different parts of the world. By analysing cases related to Deltares projects abroad, we explored whether these factors explain the main differences observed. Based on this preliminary exploration, we propose a shortlist of factors to consider when designing future flood risk management strategies tailored to local socio-economic and cultural contexts.
20 de Wit, S. 2021. Gender and climate change as new development tropes of vulnerability for the Global South: essentializing gender discourses in Maasailand, Tanzania. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 24p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2021.1984638]
Gender ; Climate change ; Vulnerability ; Women ; Ethnic groups ; Indigenous people ; Cultural factors ; Human rights / United Republic of Tanzania / Terrat
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050741)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/25729861.2021.1984638?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050741.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050741.pdf
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This article explores how international discourses on gender and climate change currently unfold for the Global South, and compares this with earlier gender discourses that traveled to Maasailand (Tanzania). By tracing the genealogy of older gender imaginaries, striking similarities emerge between the traveling discourses which position (African) women as vulnerable. This article argues against the feminization of climate change: the simplistic and historical reproduction of vulnerability along gender binaries. Gender and climate change discourses repeat historical productions of vulnerability and development that lead to a tendency to speak for rather than listen to the very women the discourses seek to support. I argue that more research is needed to understand what women do to live with climate change and its emergent discourses instead of focusing merely on what “climate change does to women.” Discourses on gender and climate change need critical insight from de- and post-colonial critiques of development and (eco)feminist scholarship that foregrounds gender’s intersectional, productive dimensions and agentive qualities. Essentializing categories like the “feminization of poverty” and women as “victims of culture” should serve as cautionary tales for climate change, which can be used by those in power to obscure more urgent problems, such as increasing land dispossession.
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