Water Sensitive Cities
Water Sensitive Cities
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水敏感城市
DOI：
10.2307/j.ctv244ss53.8
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2021
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Thabo Makgoba
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作者：
Thabo Makgoba
本章以雅加达、阿姆斯特丹和开普敦这三个主要城市为例，探讨气候变化时期的水资源问题。在前面的章节中，我们已经看到，水是世界范围内人们必须应对的一些最紧迫挑战的关键因素。海平面上升、干旱和荒漠化、饮用水短缺和卫生设施问题构成了我们与水的斗争，这对地球的可持续性和生存能力至关重要。然而，充满希望的政治并不存在于抽象之中。希望可以在真正受到威胁的关系和局势中显现出来。因此，在本章中，我们将重点关注在气候变化时期受到水威胁的三个城市。引言中确定的三个关键主题用于对城市进行分类：
This chapter addresses water in times of climate change from the vantage point of three major cities: Jakarta, Amsterdam, and Cape Town. In the previous chapters, we have seen that water is a key factor in some of the most compelling challenges people have to meet worldwide. Rising sea levels, drought and desertification, shortage of drinking water, and sanitation shape and form our struggles with water that will be crucial to the sustainability and viability of the earth. Nevertheless, a politics of hope does not live in abstractions. Hope can become visible in relations and situations that are under real threat. Therefore, in this chapter we focus on three cities that are threatened by water in times of climate change. The three key themes identified in the introduction are used to categorise the cities: