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Gouvernance urbaine des eaux de pluies entre contrainte et opportunité de développement urbain à Douala (Cameroun)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Abomo, D. Meva A |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | The economic Capital of Cameroon, Douala, records an average of 4129 mm of rainwater per year. A total of 229 days of rainfall per year with about 26 to 30 days of rainfall between July and august, is registered every year. The town therefore receives an important quantity of water, which is unfortunately submitted to the conflicts of interest. This divergence of interest promotes the contrast of the logics and strategies of rainwater management between public authorities and the local population. It results in a crisis of urban rainwater governance, which makes up an incontestable stake of urban development, in view of cyclical highly damageable hydraulic as well as hydric catastrophe. Yet, this abundance of superficial water is an asset for the realization of a sustainable town project and the development of urban and out-of-town agriculture. From this angle, it becomes an important source of employment and a factor of urban food crops production, or at best a pertinent lever of urban alimentary self-sufficiency. Altogether, a transformation of rainwater as a constraint to an opportunity of urban development can be considered as a change of governancial paradigm, that is politically opportune, socially waited and economically realizable, if the politic, the scientist and the citizen all agree on an approach of integrative governance of rainwater. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://documents.irevues.inist.fr/bitstream/handle/2042/51226/1A2P08-338MEV.pdf?sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
