Traditional water knowledge: challenges and opportunities to build resilience to urban floods
| Autor: | Jason von Meding, Iftekhar Ahmed, Josephine Vaughan, Rumana Asad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0211 other engineering and technologies
Urban design 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Building and Construction 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Geography Urban planning Urbanization Traditional knowledge Natural resource management Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Resilience (network) Environmental planning Built environment 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. 13:1-13 |
| ISSN: | 1759-5908 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/ijdrbe-08-2020-0091 |
| Popis: | Purpose Urban flooding in developing countries of the Global South is growing due to extreme rainfall and sea-level rise induced by climate change, as well as the proliferation of impervious, built-up areas resulting from unplanned urbanisation and development. Continuous loss of traditional knowledge related to local water management practices, and the de-valuing of such knowledge that goes hand-in-hand with globalised aspirations, is inhibiting flood resilience efforts. This paper aims to address the need to include traditional water knowledge (TWK) in urban living and development processes in the Global South. Design/methodology/approach This paper commences with a review of existing frameworks that focus on natural resource management, critically assessing two existing frameworks of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The assessment of the existing approaches contributes to this paper’s development of a novel framework to promote TWK with regard to resilience and risk reduction, specifically for developing flood adaptive strategies, which is the second stage of this paper. Finally, the paper explains how the framework can contribute to the field of urban design and planning using examples from the literature to demonstrate challenges and opportunities related to the adaptation of such a framework. Findings The framework developed in this paper reveals three proposed vertices of TWK, named as place-based landscape knowledge, water use and management and water values. This framework has the potential to produce context-specific knowledge that can contribute to flood-resilient built-environment through urban design and practices. Research limitations/implications The framework developed in this paper reveals three proposed vertices of TWK, named place-based landscape knowledge, water use and management and water values. This framework has the potential to produce context-specific knowledge that can contribute to flood-resilient built-environment through urban design and practices. Originality/value Within the field of TEK research, very few researchers have explored the field of developing flood resilience in an urban context. The proposed TWK framework presented in this paper will help to fill that gap. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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