Metabolic Urbanism and Environmental Justice: The Water Conundrum in Bangalore, India
| العنوان: | Metabolic Urbanism and Environmental Justice: The Water Conundrum in Bangalore, India |
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| المؤلفون: | Sekhar Muddu, Deepak Malghan, Vishal K. Mehta, Eric Kemp-Benedict, Rimi Goswami |
| المصدر: | Environmental Justice. 7:130-137 |
| بيانات النشر: | Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Environmental justice, Sustainable development, business.industry, Stern Review, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Geography, Planning and Development, Environmental resource management, Urban studies, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, WEAP, Water resources, Sustainability, Sociology, Economic geography, business, Urbanism |
| الوصف: | Anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and urban studies scholars have recorded the causes and consequences of inequities that underscore rapidly burgeoning cities in the global South. We argue here that such accounts of urbanism are incomplete without accounting for the inequities in metabolic flows of matter and energy that physically sustains the city. Using the example of domestic household water consumption patterns in Bangalore, we demonstrate how the city's hydrology is shaped by social, political, and economic variables. We present a simple coupled social-ecological framework that allows us to sketch the broad contours of this social hydrology of Bangalore. Our analysis provides evidence for why questions of environmental justice cannot be separated from questions of biophysical sustainability. We show that anthropogenic drivers of groundwater hydrology in Bangalore dominate background biophysical drivers. Unequal spatial distribution of piped water infrastructure is the principal dr... |
| تدمد: | 1937-5174 1939-4071 |
| DOI: | 10.1089/env.2014.0021 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::7ed11f9e17a89b4de176897c8c9e64e6 https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2014.0021 |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........7ed11f9e17a89b4de176897c8c9e64e6 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19375174 19394071 |
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| DOI: | 10.1089/env.2014.0021 |