Participatory Approach for Integrated Basin Planning with Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of the Limpopo River
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), Nairobi, GPO 00100, Kenya
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Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium
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Faculty of Geo-Information Science & Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), Santiago de Chile, Casilla 66, Correo 12, La Reina, Chile
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Water 2011, 3(3), 737-763; https://doi.org/10.3390/w3030737
Received: 15 April 2011
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Revised: 4 May 2011
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Accepted: 22 May 2011
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Published: 29 June 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Policy)
This paper defends the idea that a participatory approach is a suitable method for basin planning integrating both water and land aspects. Assertions made are based on scientific literature review and corroborated by field experience and research carried out in the Limpopo River basin, a transboundary river located in southern Africa which is affected by periodical floods. The paper explains how a basin strategic plan can be drafted and disaster risk reduction strategies derived by combining different types of activities using a bottom-up approach, despite an institutional context which operates through traditional top-down mechanisms. In particular, the “Living with Floods” experience in the lower Limpopo River, in Mozambique, is described as a concrete example of a disaster adaptation measure resulting from a participatory planning exercise. In conclusion, the adopted method and obtained results are discussed and recommendations are formulated for potential replication in similar contexts of the developing world.
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Spaliviero, M.; Dapper, M.D.; M.Mannaerts, C.; Yachan, A. Participatory Approach for Integrated Basin Planning with Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of the Limpopo River. Water 2011, 3, 737-763. https://doi.org/10.3390/w3030737
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Spaliviero M, Dapper MD, M.Mannaerts C, Yachan A. Participatory Approach for Integrated Basin Planning with Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of the Limpopo River. Water. 2011; 3(3):737-763. https://doi.org/10.3390/w3030737
Chicago/Turabian StyleSpaliviero, Mathias, Morgan De Dapper, Chris M.Mannaerts, and Antonio Yachan. 2011. "Participatory Approach for Integrated Basin Planning with Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of the Limpopo River" Water 3, no. 3: 737-763. https://doi.org/10.3390/w3030737
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