@conference {
    orvium-61768f431fcdc60008496fff,
    title = "Bridging Ecological Urbanism and Urban Political Ecology for a New Vision of Water Sensitivity in Cities",
    abstract = "The spatial imaginaries offered by ecological urbanists working with Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) can potentially foster more sustainable urban development by reclaiming space for water in the urban realm, developing new ecological infrastructure, and transforming human relationships with water. However, the societal benefits purported by proponents of WSUD do not always materialise due to social and cultural differences in society which can then make WSUD contentious. Scholarship in urban political ecology has highlighted various contradictions inherent to design-deterministic approaches that attempt to restore water ecologies in cities through green infrastructure systems. For these reasons, it is crucial to understand what and whose visions and socio-environmental relations are being promoted or not by the Water Sensitive Urban Design approach in order to identify ways in which water-sensitive city-making can become more democratic and equitable. The main contribution of this paper is to go beyond the terrain of academic critique by offering urbanists working with WSUD practical ways forward on how to incorporate issues of political ecology into practice. To do so, the paper aims to develop a new approach to design processes which allows discourses of more radical voices to be considered when charting new avenues for water sensitivity.",
    keywords = "Water Sensitive Urban Design, Urban Political Ecology, Ecological Urbanism",
    author = "Raquel Hädrich Silva and Dominic  Stead and Margreet  Zwarteveen  and Taneha  Kuzniecow Bacchin",
    year = "2021",
    doi = "10.24404/61768f431fcdc60008496fff",
    language = "English",
    url = "https://dapp.orvium.io/deposits/61768f431fcdc60008496fff/view",
}