DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102086
论文题名: What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens.
作者: Mguni P. ; van Vliet B. ; Spaargaren G. ; Nakirya D. ; Osuret J. ; Isunju J.B. ; Ssekamatte T. ; Mugambe R.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2020
卷: 63 语种: 英语
英文关键词: biomass burning
; climate effect
; energy use
; food availability
; household survey
; informal settlement
; service provision
; social behavior
; urbanization
; vulnerability
; water quality
; water use
; Kampala
; Sub-Saharan Africa
; Uganda
英文摘要: Sub-Saharan African cities like Kampala face challenges with rapid urbanization and impacts of climate change. These challenges have exacerbated the struggle to provide adequate infrastructural and socio-ecological services to Kampala's growing poor. Based on a social practices perspective, this paper presents a study of emergent vulnerabilities at the urban Nexus of water, energy and food (WEF) in the informal settlements of Bwaise and Kanyogoga. We employ methods of observation, interviews, focus group discussions and a vision-building workshop to explore the growing vulnerabilities of poor households as they daily navigate deteriorating water quality, rising energy prices and food insecurity. Results indicate that most household-level vulnerabilities relate to energy poverty. Households scale back on water treatment practices such as boiling and the cooking of highly-nutritious yet energy-demanding foods such as beans in efforts to conserve charcoal. Emergent practices of everyday resilience-building include the use of biomass briquettes as an alternative to solid charcoal as well as social networks and capital which allow households to borrow food and energy. We suggest the notion of ‘precarious consumption’ as a tool for understanding emergent everyday vulnerabilities in relation to the urban WEF Nexus service provision and resilience policy-making in cities of the Global South. © 2020 Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168207
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作者单位: Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University and Research, Leeuwenborch Building 201, Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen, Gelderland 6706KN, Netherlands; Department of Environmental Management, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda; Makerere University School of Public Health, New Mulago Hill Rd, Kampala, Uganda
Recommended Citation:
Mguni P.,van Vliet B.,Spaargaren G.,et al. What could go wrong with cooking? Exploring vulnerability at the water, energy and food Nexus in Kampala through a social practices lens.[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020-01-01,63