- Title
- Traditional water knowledge: challenges and opportunities to build resilience to urban floods
- Creator
- Asad, Rumana; Ahmed, Iftekhar; Vaughan, Josephine; von Meding, Jason
- Relation
- International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment Vol. 13, Issue 1, p. 1-13
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2020-0091
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- resilience; urban development; SDG 13; Sustainable Development Goals; flooding; built environment; water; traditional ecological knowledge; SDG 1; SDG 6; SDG 11; SDG 12
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452956
- Identifier
- uon:44549
- Identifier
- ISSN:1759-5908
- Rights
- © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited. This AAM is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher.
- Language
- eng
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Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
Goal 13: Climate Change
Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
Goal 1: No Poverty
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