Kurzfassung

Mega-trends of socioeconomic and environmental change culminate in coastal zones, and create multiple stresses that are most notably linked in urban areas. Understanding the changing patterns of local processes such as urbanisation, environmental stress as well as widespread poverty and its interplay with global environmental change, is the starting point for our research. Our case study
Accra stands for a city in the global south where “resources for coping capacities are generally most...Mega-trends of socioeconomic and environmental change culminate in coastal zones, and create multiple stresses that are most notably linked in urban areas. Understanding the changing patterns of local processes such as urbanisation, environmental stress as well as widespread poverty and its interplay with global environmental change, is the starting point for our research. Our case study
Accra stands for a city in the global south where “resources for coping capacities are generally most inadequate” (Parnell et al. 2007: 358) for responding to these multiple crises. Hence, the aim of WaterPower is to develop approaches that address global environmental change on a specific urban scale
by focusing on the dynamics of water security. Water is an ideal research object for an interdisciplinary effort since it is equally important for ecosystems and socio-economic systems and the flow of water is inherently bound to questions
of access to and control over resources.» weiterlesen» einklappen