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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Water Problems and Conflicting Water Values in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region
verfasst von : Antonio A. R. Ioris
Erschienen in: Water, State and the City
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The failures of urbanisation in the city of Rio de Janeiro have serious repercussions on a larger geographical space, including catchments that supply water to the growing megacity. Urban conflicts can be directly associated with conflicting water values and contrasting forms of valuation. The chapter makes use of the concept of positionality to describe clusters of water values forged around cooperation and competition for water allocation, use and conservation. The explanatory function of positionality is demonstrated by the evolution of water use in the Baixada Fluminense, where the prevailing positionality has conventionally depicted water as an economic resource. Such centralised positionality has been challenged ‘from within the state apparatus’ by concerted calls for better governance. In contrast with those two perspectives, there exists also a vast range of water values articulated by the local communities in their struggle for survival and political recognition.