Sustainability and hydropolitics in MENA Region: the case of water management in urban areas

Q4 Social Sciences

Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.3280/sr2022-127006

Giuseppe Anzera, Giovanna Gianturco, M. Nocenzi

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Water is a vital asset used in public and private activities, both with domestic and productive targets. As freshwater is unevenly and irregularly scattered, some regions of the world acutely suffer from water scarcity. Limited access to safe drinking water and lack of adequate sanitation facilities in most devel- oping countries, as the rapid urbanization, have caused serious water scarcity and water pollution problems. Then, the global warming caused by burning of fossil fuels has negative impacts on the hydrological cycle and consequently unfavorable changes in water quality. In the Mediterranean basin, some regions, as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), are encountering sever social, economic and environmental issues related to water management. As the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal 6 points out it's irreversible to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Finally, it is possible to make the growing urban areas more sustainable (Goal 11), assuming water not more as a losing item for the MENA Region development, but as a strategic tool for facing persistent imbalances and for riding the overwhelming changes.

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中东和北非地区的可持续性和水政治:城市地区水管理的案例

水是公共和私人活动中使用的重要资产，无论是家庭还是生产目标。由于淡水分布不均和不规则，世界上一些地区严重缺水。在大多数发展中国家，由于快速城市化，获得安全饮用水的机会有限，缺乏适当的卫生设施，造成了严重的缺水和水污染问题。其次，化石燃料燃烧引起的全球变暖对水文循环产生负面影响，从而导致水质的不利变化。在地中海盆地，一些区域，如中东和北非，正遇到与水管理有关的严重的社会、经济和环境问题。正如联合国2030年可持续发展议程目标6所指出的那样，确保人人享有水和卫生设施并对其进行可持续管理是不可逆转的。最后，有可能使不断增长的城市地区更具可持续性(目标11)，不再将水视为中东和北非地区发展的一个失败项目，而是作为应对持续不平衡和应对压倒性变化的战略工具。

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期刊介绍： Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale (Sociology and Sociological Research), was founded in 1980 by a group of professors from different Italian universities and different branches of Sociology. The aim was to achieve two main goals. The first was to create a channel for communication among specialists not subject to academic limitation of any sort. The second was to pursue the project of a logically and methodologically based empirical research, focusing on one hand on the relations between scientific statute of social theory, and on the other on social intervention. The fundamental need for pluralism has guided the work of this review since it was founded. Italian and foreign authors from academic, research or professional backgrounds discuss themes and issues that range from social theory, sociology of communication, professions in the field, complex organizations, and social services, to labor rights and policies and sociology of the sciences and knowledge.