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Multi-level Governance, Resilience to Flood Risks and Coproduction in Urban Africa

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Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa

Part of the book series: Future City ((FUCI,volume 4))

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This chapter examines how climate change adaptation becomes integrated as a policy field within multi-level governance in the two coastal cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Saint Louis, Senegal. We explore the ways in which this policy sector works towards resilient cities as it interfaces with the governance of flood risks.

In Dar es Salaam, we find that adaptation and flood risk management have no substantive organisational home at municipal level. These policy fields are not well integrated into the city’s land use planning and development at a local level. Public officials, to a limited degree, encourage citizen participation in flood risk management and land use planning. In Saint Louis, public officials, especially municipal planners, actively encourage citizen participation in flood risk management and local development planning. We suggest that it is not the size and adaptive capacity of the municipality, per se, that matter for the integration and functioning of climate risk management at local level. Rather, it is the way multi-level governance enables or constrains the ability of public officials to enhance the responsiveness of citizens and their input into the coproduction of services and water resources management. The chapter refers to theories of coproduction within multi-level governance to explain drivers and barriers to adaptation and resilience.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The five cities being researched under CLUVA are Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Ouagadougou, and Saint Louis (CLUVA 2014a, b).

  2. 2.

    A municipality in Norway would have about 5,000 Euro per capita at its disposal. This is an astonishing difference.

  3. 3.

    The municipality of Durban is recognised internationally as innovative and active in promoting climate change adaptation. Adaptation has been encouraged by municipal officials and integrated in urban development despite limited guidance from the state. The case illustrates the importance of local entrepreneurs – and agency – among the city planners in experimenting with climate strategies and incremental adaptation. It suggests that political factors and limited funding can be overcome. It also suggests that incremental adaptation and learning-by-doing lead to positive results provided there is cooperation across sectors (Roberts and O’Donoghue 2013).

  4. 4.

    That being said, even in Saint Louis the coordination of urban adaptation and flood risk management by hierarchical instruments was relatively weak and fragmented. This is also not surprising given that this has also been observed in many other African countries (Cartwright et al. 2012; Roberts and O’Donoghue 2013; CLUVA 2014b) as well as in many European countries (OECD 2009; Bulkeley 2010; Hanssen et al. 2013; Rauken et al. 2014).

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  1. Department of International Studies, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Gaustadalleén 21, 0349, Oslo, Norway

    Trond Vedeld

  2. Institute of Human Settlements Studies, Ardhi University, 35176, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Wilbard J. Kombe & Clara Kweka-Msale

  3. Department of Geography, University of Gaston Berger, B.P. 234, Saint Louis, Senegal

    Ndèye Marème Ndour & Adrien Coly

  4. Sund Energy, Meltzers gt 4, 0257, Oslo, Norway

    Siri Hellevik

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  1. Technical University Munich (TUM), Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Freising, Germany

    Stephan Pauleit

  2. Department of Geography, University of Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Senegal

    Adrien Coly

  3. Technical University Munich (TUM), Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Freising, Germany

    Sandra Fohlmeister

  4. University of Naples Federico II AMRA S.c.a r.l, Naples, Italy

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  5. Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  6. Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  7. Institute of Human Settlements Studies, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Wilbard J. Kombe

  8. School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Sarah Lindley

  9. School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa

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  10. Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC), Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Vedeld, T., Kombe, W.J., Kweka-Msale, C., Ndour, N.M., Coly, A., Hellevik, S. (2015). Multi-level Governance, Resilience to Flood Risks and Coproduction in Urban Africa. In: Pauleit, S., et al. Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa. Future City, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03982-4_9

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