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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Emergent governance responses to shocks to critical provisioning systems
npj Urban Sustainability, Volume 3, No. 1, Article 42, Year 2023
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The structure and functioning of formal and informal governance arrangements and associated infrastructure prior to major environmental disturbance play a central role in how cities experience and respond to such events. This paper considers how city managers, businesses, and residents responded to two disturbances experienced in the City of Cape Town—a drought-induced water crisis and a pandemic crisis (COVID-19) that followed a year later—and the consequences of these actions for infrastructural assets and governance innovations. Our analysis suggests that efforts aimed at transformative change in these provisioning systems require attention to the existing and potential roles and responsibilities of private and public sector actors, as well as the associated distribution of risks and rewards. Furthermore, polycentric and decentralized governance arrangements, which are often thought to be most flexible in the face of shocks, are not always feasible or desirable to actors with a stake in resource governance. © 2023, The Author(s).
Authors & Co-Authors
Eakin, Hallie C.
United States, Tempe
Arizona State University
Hamann, Ralph
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Ziervogel, Gina
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
SHEARING, CLIFFORD D.
South Africa, Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Statistics
Citations: 1
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1038/s42949-023-00123-y
ISSN:
26618001
Research Areas
Covid
Environmental
Health System And Policy