Water and Cities in Latin America: Challenges for Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9781138364233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 282 str.

Opis

Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form.

This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.

Spis treści

Introduction  Ismael Aguilar-Barajas, Jürgen Mahlknecht, Jonathan Kaledin, Marianne Kjellén and Abel Mejía-Betancourt  Part 1: Water, Cities and Financing  1. Water, Cities and Sustainable Development: Setting the Scene  Ismael Aguilar-Barajas  2. Why Does Understanding the Urban Water Link Matter?  Abel Mejía-Betancourt  3. Challenges and Policy Options for Financing Urban Water and Sanitation  Anthony Cox and Peter Börkey  Part 2: Managing Water and Sanitation Services  4. Urban Water Management in São Paulo to Achieve Universal Access to Water Supply and Sanitation Services  Dilma Pena  5. Water Services in Lima, Peru: Understanding the Linkages between Urban Development, Social Inequality and Water  Antonio A.R. Ioris  6. Urban Wastewater Governance in Latin America: Panorama and Reflections for a Research Agenda  Raul Pacheco-Vega  7. Issues and Challenges for Water Supply, Storm Water Drainage and Wastewater in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area  Polioptro F. Martínez and Erick R. Bandala  8. Urban Groundwater Supply in Latin American Cities: Panorama and the Cases of Mexico City and São Paulo  Jürgen Mahlknecht and Ricardo Hirata and Rogelio Ledesma  Part 3: Climate Change, Risk Management and Planning  9. Flash Floods in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, Mexico: Lessons from Hurricane Alex  Nicholas P. Sisto and Aldo Iván Ramírez  10. The Rio Bogotá Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project  Carlos Costa Posada, Carlos Felipe Urazán Bonells and Edder A. Velandia Durán  11. Protection and Environmental Restoration of the Pichincha Slopes in Quito, Ecuador  Xavier Vidal, Lucía Burgos and Othón Zevallos  12. Water Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptation in the Río Grande Basin, Argentina: A Case Study Introducing the Hydro-BID Modelling System  Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm, Eugene Brantly, Marcelo Borsellino, Edgardo Castellano, Robert Dykes, Fekadu Moreda, Raúl Muñoz-Castillo, Jay Rineer, Bill Wheaton, and Alan Wyatt  Part 4: Green Infrastructure Development  13. Green Growth and Water Services in Latin American Cities  Greg Browder  14. Water Funds as a Tool for Urban Water Provision and Watershed Conservation in Latin America  Fernando Veiga, Alejandro Calvache, Silvia Benitez, Jorge León and Aurelio Ramos  15. Green Infrastructure and Watershed Protection in US Cities: Insights for Latin America  Jonathan Kaledin