Wascot

Project description

This project investigates how urban wastewater and stormwater drainage services can undergo a fundamental transition over time, responding to the urgent need for a more sustainable practice. The project aims at analysing, conceptualising, mapping and classifying the changes of co-production practices in different stages in order to identify their contribution to a sustainable transition; a transition that ensures a basic needs' delivery and adapts to future climate and urbanisation challenges. In addition to creating a theoretical framework, three city-level case studies are included: the case study in Brussels considers a change necessitated by the malfunctioning of often-combined water infrastructures in the lower-lying areas. The case studies in Dar es Salaam and Dakar (provisionary) also consider a change, here necessitated by the lack of existing infrastructures in certain urban areas.

Keywords, main expertise

co-production; water and sanitation services; urban; socio-ecological; socio-technical; Global South; transition; Belgium

Funding bodies

PDR FNRS

UCLouvain promotor(s)

Prof. Chiara Cavalieri
Prof. Sergio Altomonte

UCLouvain researcher(s)

Evelien Van den Bruel

External partners

ULB (Prof. Luisa Moretto and dr. Giuseppe Faldi), main promoter