1st Edition

Coproducing Water, Energy and Waste Services

Edited By Luisa Moretto, Marco Ranzato Copyright 2018
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this delivery model appears increasingly inefficient in two respects. It often fails in guaranteeing its financial viability and equitable service access, and and it generally draws heavily on the natural resources conveyed by these services. The book aims... Read more

1. A socio-natural standpoint to understand coproduction of water, energy and waste services  Luisa Moretto and Marco Ranzato 2. Water trajectories through non-networked infrastructure: insights from peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Cochabamba and Kolkata  Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Jenia Mukherjee and Anna Walnycki 3. When urban modernisation entails service delivery co-production: a glance from Medellin Catalina Duque Gómez and Sylvy Jaglin 4. Between coproduction and commons: understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg S. Becker, M. Naumann and T. Moss 5. ‘Co-producing affordability’ to the electricity service: a market-oriented response to addressing inequality of access in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas Francesca Pilo 6. The co-production of a constant water supply in Mumbai’s middle-class apartments Cat Button

Biography

Luisa Moretto is Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She has a background in architecture and holds a PhD in Analysis and Governance of Sustainable Development by the University of Venice. She is former coordinator of N-AERUS (Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South).



Marco Ranzato (PhD) is researcher at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), coordinator of the LoUiSE research group for the laboratory of territorial engineering Metrolab, and co-director of LATITUDE Platform for Urban Research and Design.