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Water Resilience: Water Justice
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Water Resilience: Water Justice

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 3245

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Adrian Healy

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School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
Interests: urban resilience; water resilience; self-supply; agency; transformations

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Increasing incidence of water stress and water shocks around the world have led to a rising interest in the concept of water resilience amongst academics and policy-actors alike. Scholarly contributions consider both the resilience of water bodies to natural or anthropogenic events and the resilience of communities and communities to water shocks or to water stress, such as flooding, drought or water insecurity. In this Special Issue we invite papers that bring new perspectives to bear on water resilience, particularly those that consider the capacities to cope, adapt or to transform in the face of episodic shocks or longer-term changes in circumstance. We also welcome papers considering notions of agency and the role of institutions and context in mediating outcomes. We look to combine perspectives that consider physical or engineered components of water resilience with those that consider institutional norms, processes and pluralities of knowledge, particularly in the lived realities of everyday lives. Of course, water resilience is nothing if it is neither just nor sustainable and so we invite contributions that seek to embed concepts of justice and sustainability into our understanding of water resilience.

Dr. Adrian Healy
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Water is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • water resilience
  • water justice
  • water stress
  • agency
  • transformation and transitions
  • adaptive pathways
  • coping strategies

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(Un)Affordability of Informal Water Systems: Disparities in a Comparative Case Study in Beirut, Lebanon
by Yasmina Choueiri, Jay Lund, Jonathan K. London and Edward S. Spang
Water 2022, 14(17), 2713; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14172713 - 31 Aug 2022
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Abstract
Achieving affordable and equitable access to water for all remains a challenge worldwide. In areas suffering from chronic water shortages, communities pay high costs for alternative informal water sources (such as tanker trucks, bottled water, and wells) to meet their daily water needs. [...] Read more.
Achieving affordable and equitable access to water for all remains a challenge worldwide. In areas suffering from chronic water shortages, communities pay high costs for alternative informal water sources (such as tanker trucks, bottled water, and wells) to meet their daily water needs. This study examines water costs of informal sources and overall affordability disparities for two communities of different socioeconomic status in Beirut, Lebanon. Water is often unaffordable for both of these communities. Overall, 6% of household income is spent on purchasing water (compared to an average global percentages of 3% to 5%). There are also significant disparities between the communities: lower income residents pay 2.2 times more of their income to secure water, and more than half of these residents (55% of households) spend more than 5% of their income on water. To overcome water shortages, these residents turn to informal water sources, but at significant additional cost. These costs and impacts on lower income residents are high and inequitable. We propose strategies to address cost, quality and quantity issues for informal sources. Full article
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