Assignment:
How Can We transition to Water sensitive cities?
2500 words essay based on:
ØOn transitioning to the Water Sensitive City (WSC)
ØConsider social, institutional and/or technical dimensions (on socio-technical change for more sustainablewater management)
ØReview the meaning of water sensitive city (WSC) in the context of everyday water practices, or
ØReview methods to explore transitions to WSC
• On the need to focus on institutional change for implementing
• Water Sensitive City: on socio-technical change for more sustainablewater management
• Consider the governance of urban water and new ways of understanding that governance
• Have the relevant actors changed? Have the relevant institutions?
• How might we reframe urban water governance to better understandaction toward WSC
Marking guide lines
A. Synthesis of literature and positioning of own ideas with in it. Clear demonstration of critical thinking or critical analysis
B. Review of literature and summary of key points. Clear evidence of effort to understand main arguments
C. Review of some literature lacking evidence of clear understanding of key points
Transitions in urban water management
• On socio-technical change for more sustainablewater management
• Innovation in infrastructure (niche) supported by behaviour change to change socio-technical regime
• Top-down implementation with policy entrepreneurs very important (Farrelly and Brown 2011)
• Universality in hydro-social contract (common vision)