Is larger always lekker? A comparative analysis of South Africa's water user associations (WUAs) and catchment partnerships (CPs) and their impact on water, energy, and food (WEF) security

IF 4.7 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Saul Ngarava
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Complexities in water, energy, and food (WEF) governance provide varied systems and pathways that shape welfare outcomes. The biggest question relates to the scale and complexities in resource management and governance, which reaches a certain equilibrium to achieve maximum welfare benefits. This is a proposition that is assessed in this study which sought to compare the WEF welfare outcomes of jurisdictions under Water User Associations (WUAs) and Catchment Partnerships (CPs). The study used a multi-stage purposively sampled cross-sectional survey of 1184 households from Greater Taung and Magareng Local Municipalities (Vaalharts Water User Association) and Matatiele Local Municipality (uMzvimvubu Catchment Partnership) in South Africa. The Household Water Insecurity Experiences, Household Multi-Dimensional Energy Poverty Index and Household Food In-Access Scale, Min-Max normalization and Propensity Score Matching were used to analyze the data. There was association between jurisdiction and the level of WEF security. Households under the jurisdiction of a WUA experienced 13.8%, 6.8% and 9.3% higher levels of water, energy, and food insecurity, respectively. The study concludes that households under the jurisdiction of a CP had higher levels of WEF security, with complexities or lack thereof resulting in higher welfare outcomes. Therefore, larger is not always lekker. The study recommends either (i) scaling down of WUA to CP and/or (ii) diversifying by increasing the breadth and scope of stakeholders within WUA. The governance systems should be integrated in an evaluation to ascertain any impact on the welfare outcomes.

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规模越大越好吗?南非用水户协会(WUAs)和集水区伙伴关系(CPs)及其对水、能源和粮食(WEF)安全影响的比较分析
水、能源和粮食(WEF)治理的复杂性提供了塑造福利结果的各种系统和途径。最大的问题涉及资源管理和治理的规模和复杂性,即达到某种平衡以实现最大福利。本研究对这一命题进行了评估,旨在比较用水户协会(WUA)和流域合作伙伴关系(CPs)下各辖区的 WEF 福利结果。本研究采用多阶段有目的抽样横截面调查,调查对象为南非大塔翁和马加伦地方市政当局(瓦尔哈茨用水户协会)以及马塔蒂埃勒地方市政当局(uMzvimvubu 集水伙伴关系)的 1184 个家庭。数据分析采用了家庭用水不安全经历、家庭多维能源贫困指数和家庭粮食匮乏量表、最小-最大归一化和倾向得分匹配等方法。辖区与用水保障水平之间存在关联。在用水户协会管辖下的家庭,其用水、能源和粮食不安全程度分别高出 13.8%、6.8% 和 9.3%。研究得出的结论是,CP 管辖下的家庭具有较高的 WEF 安全水平,复杂性或缺乏复杂性会导致较高的福利结果。因此,规模越大并不总是越好。研究建议:(i) 将用水户协会的规模缩小到社区委员会,和/或 (ii) 通过增加用水户协会内利益相关者的广度和范围来实现多样化。治理系统应纳入评估,以确定对福利结果的影响。
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Environmental Development
Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
CiteScore
8.40
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1.90%
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62
审稿时长
74 days
期刊介绍: Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action. Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers. All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.
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