2,324
Views
63
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
research article

Climate change adaptation in a developing country context: The case of urban water supply in Cape Town

, &
Pages 94-110 | Published online: 08 Jun 2011

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Read on this site (12)

Bertha Hernández Aguilar, Amy M. Lerner, David Manuel-Navarrete & J. Mario Siqueiros-García. (2021) Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco. Water International 46:6, pages 919-937.
Read now
Nicholas Philip Simpson, Clifford D. Shearing & Benoit Dupont. (2020) When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town. Climate and Development 12:2, pages 163-169.
Read now
Emma Luker & Leila M. Harris. (2019) Developing new urban water supplies: investigating motivations and barriers to groundwater use in Cape Town. International Journal of Water Resources Development 35:6, pages 917-937.
Read now
Nicholas Philip Simpson, Kayleen Jeanne Simpson, Clifford D. Shearing & Liza Rose Cirolia. (2019) Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development 11:3, pages 257-276.
Read now
Welitom Ttatom Pereira da Silva & Marco Antonio Almeida de Souza. (2018) Expert system for selecting and prioritizing projects for handling urban water supply crises. Urban Water Journal 15:6, pages 561-567.
Read now
Lauren Herwehe & Christopher A. Scott. (2018) Drought adaptation and development: small-scale irrigated agriculture in northeast Brazil. Climate and Development 10:4, pages 337-346.
Read now
Katharine Vincent, Andrew J. Dougill, Jami L. Dixon, Lindsay C. Stringer & Tracy Cull. (2017) Identifying climate services needs for national planning: insights from Malawi. Climate Policy 17:2, pages 189-202.
Read now
Michelle Berquist, Amrita Daniere & Lisa Drummond. (2015) Planning for global environmental change in Bangkok's informal settlements. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 58:10, pages 1711-1730.
Read now
Geneviève Cloutier, Florent Joerin, Catherine Dubois, Martial Labarthe, Christelle Legay & Dominique Viens. (2015) Planning adaptation based on local actors’ knowledge and participation: a climate governance experiment. Climate Policy 15:4, pages 458-474.
Read now
Lorena Pasquini, Gina Ziervogel, Richard M. Cowling & Clifford Shearing. (2015) What enables local governments to mainstream climate change adaptation? Lessons learned from two municipal case studies in the Western Cape, South Africa. Climate and Development 7:1, pages 60-70.
Read now
Nicholas Wiid & Gina Ziervogel. (2012) Adapting to climate change in South Africa: commercial farmers' perception of and response to changing climate. South African Geographical Journal 94:2, pages 152-173.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (51)

Ariel S. Prinsloo & Jennifer M. Fitchett. (2023) A nexus between airbnb and inequalities in water use and access.. Environmental Development 47, pages 100879.
Crossref
Keerththana Kumareswaran & Guttila Yugantha JayasingheKeerththana Kumareswaran & Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe. 2023. Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience. Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience 39 97 .
Daniel A. Ayejoto, Johnbosco C. Egbueri, Johnson C. Agbasi, Michael E. Omeka, Chinanu O. Unigwe, Vincent E. Nwazelibe, Joshua O. Ighalo & Chaitanya B. Pande. 2023. Climate Change Impacts on Nigeria. Climate Change Impacts on Nigeria 423 447 .
Obey Gotore, Nakagoe Osamu, Ramaraj Rameshprabu, Manivannan Arthi, Yuwalee Unpaprom & Tomoaki Itayama. (2022) Iodine adsorption isotherms on Matamba fruit shell stemmed biochar for wastewater re-use strategy in rural areas owing to climate change. Chemosphere 303, pages 135126.
Crossref
Leocadia Zhou, Dumisani Shoko Kori, Melusi Sibanda & Kenneth Nhundu. (2022) An Analysis of the Differences in Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Review of Rural and Urban Areas in South Africa. Climate 10:8, pages 118.
Crossref
Dennis Junior Choruma, Frank Chukwuzuoke Akamagwuna & Nelson Oghenekaro Odume. (2022) Simulating the Impacts of Climate Change on Maize Yields Using EPIC: A Case Study in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Agriculture 12:6, pages 794.
Crossref
David Olufemi Awolala, Joseph Mutemi, Elijah Adefisan, Philip Antwi-Agyei & Andrea Taylor. (2022) Profiling User Needs for Weather and Climate Information in Fostering Drought Risk Preparedness in Central-Southern Nigeria. Frontiers in Climate 4.
Crossref
Ivonne Morales & Larry Swatuk. 2022. The Political Economy of Urban Water Security under Climate Change. The Political Economy of Urban Water Security under Climate Change 53 79 .
Yaser Abunnasr & Mario Mhawej. (2021) Downscaled night air temperatures between 2030 and 2070: The case of cities with a complex- and heterogeneous-topography. Urban Climate 40, pages 100998.
Crossref
Syed Mahbubur Rahman. (2021) Sustainability challenges of adaptation interventions: do the challenges vary with implementing organizations?. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 26:7.
Crossref
Tesfaye Tessema Gintamo, H. Mengistu & T. Kanyerere. (2021) GIS-based modelling of climate variability impacts on groundwater quality: Cape Flats Aquifer, South Africa. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, pages 100663.
Crossref
Anna Taylor, Christopher Jack, Alice McClure, Sukaina Bharwani, Rebecca Ilunga & Jessica Kavonic. (2021) Understanding and supporting climate-sensitive decision processes in southern African cities. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 51, pages 77-84.
Crossref
Mmapatla Precious SenyoloThomas B. LongOnno Omta. (2021) Enhancing the adoption of climate-smart technologies using public-private partnerships: lessons from the WEMA case in South Africa. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 24:5, pages 755-776.
Crossref
James J. Patterson. (2021) More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities. Global Environmental Change 68, pages 102279.
Crossref
Nazia Talat. 2021. Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change. Water Conservation in the Era of Global Climate Change 47 71 .
Vanesa Castán Broto & Linda K. Westman. (2020) Ten years after Copenhagen: Reimagining climate change governance in urban areas. WIREs Climate Change 11:4.
Crossref
Donghyun Kim & Jung Eun Kang. (2020) Building Consensus with Local Residents in Community-Based Adaptation Planning: The Case of Bansong Pilbongoreum Community in Busan, South Korea. Sustainability 12:4, pages 1559.
Crossref
Venkata Sandeep, Ashwini Khandekar & Manish Kumar. 2020. Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems. Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems 195 215 .
Gyanu Maskey, Chandra L. Pandey & Krishna K. Shrestha. (2019) Securing Water in the Rapidly Urbanising Global South: Insights from Critical Analysis of ‘Sectoral Policies’ in Nepal. New Angle: Nepal journal of social science and public policy 6:1, pages 9-31.
Crossref
Stephen Woroniecki, Ruth Krüger, Anna‐Lena Rau, Maren Stefanie Preuss, Nora Baumgartner, Sanne Raggers, Laura Niessen, Lars Holländer, Felix Beyers, Julius Rathgens, Kai Christian Wagner, Lisa Habigt, Torsten Krause, Christine Wamsler, Henrik von Wehrden & David Abson. (2019) The framing of power in climate change adaptation research. WIREs Climate Change 10:6.
Crossref
Lucy Rodina. (2019) Planning for water resilience: Competing agendas among Cape Town’s planners and water managers. Environmental Science & Policy 99, pages 10-16.
Crossref
Coleen Vogel & David Olivier. (2018) Re-imagining the potential of effective drought responses in South Africa. Regional Environmental Change 19:6, pages 1561-1570.
Crossref
Mohan Munasinghe. 2019. Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century.
Boipelo Madonsela, Stef Koop, Kees Van Leeuwen & Kirsty Carden. (2019) Evaluation of Water Governance Processes Required to Transition towards Water Sensitive Urban Design—An Indicator Assessment Approach for the City of Cape Town. Water 11:2, pages 292.
Crossref
Nicholas Philip Simpson, Clifford D. Shearing & Benoit Dupont. (2019) Climate gating: A case study of emerging responses to Anthropocene Risks. Climate Risk Management 26, pages 100196.
Crossref
Lisa Dilling, Meaghan E. Daly, Douglas A. Kenney, Roberta Klein, Kathleen Miller, Andrea J. Ray, William R. Travis & Olga Wilhelmi. (2019) Drought in urban water systems: Learning lessons for climate adaptive capacity. Climate Risk Management 23, pages 32-42.
Crossref
Prosper I. K. Evadzi, Jürgen Scheffran, Eduardo Zorita & Birgit Hünicke. (2017) Awareness of sea-level response under climate change on the coast of Ghana. Journal of Coastal Conservation 22:1, pages 183-197.
Crossref
Mmapatla Precious Senyolo, Thomas B. Long, Vincent Blok & Onno Omta. (2018) How the characteristics of innovations impact their adoption: An exploration of climate-smart agricultural innovations in South Africa. Journal of Cleaner Production 172, pages 3825-3840.
Crossref
Karen Hetz. 2018. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation. Limits to Climate Change Adaptation 143 158 .
Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya & Paramu Mafongoya. (2016) Local-level climate change adaptation decision-making and livelihoods in semi-arid areas in Zimbabwe. Environment, Development and Sustainability 19:6, pages 2377-2403.
Crossref
Paul Klugman Currie, Josephine Kaviti Musango & Nhlanhla Desire May. (2017) Urban metabolism: A review with reference to Cape Town. Cities 70, pages 91-110.
Crossref
J.A. Miller, A.J. Dunford, K.A. Swana, L. Palcsu, M. Butler & C.E. Clarke. (2017) Stable isotope and noble gas constraints on the source and residence time of spring water from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer, Paarl, South Africa and implications for large scale abstraction. Journal of Hydrology 551, pages 100-115.
Crossref
Jeremy Paul Kohlitz, Joanne Chong & Juliet Willetts. (2017) Climate change vulnerability and resilience of water, sanitation, and hygiene services: a theoretical perspective. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 7:2, pages 181-195.
Crossref
Londeka Mahlanza, Gina Ziervogel & Dianne Scott. (2016) Water, Rights and Poverty: an Environmental Justice Approach to Analysing Water Management Devices in Cape Town. Urban Forum 27:4, pages 363-382.
Crossref
Gina ZiervogelEmma Archer van Garderen & Penny Price. (2016) Strengthening the knowledge–policy interface through co-production of a climate adaptation plan: leveraging opportunities in Bergrivier Municipality, South Africa. Environment and Urbanization 28:2, pages 455-474.
Crossref
Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Ezatollah Karami, Gholam Hossein Zamani, Kourosh Rezaei-Moghaddam, Dariush Hayati & Masoud Masoudi. (2015) Discovering and characterizing farm households’ resilience under water scarcity. Environment, Development and Sustainability 18:2, pages 499-525.
Crossref
Karen Hetz. (2015) Contesting adaptation synergies: political realities in reconciling climate change adaptation with urban development in Johannesburg, South Africa. Regional Environmental Change 16:4, pages 1171-1182.
Crossref
Lorena Pasquini & Richard M. Cowling. (2014) Opportunities and challenges for mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation in local government: evidence from the Western Cape, South Africa. Environment, Development and Sustainability 17:5, pages 1121-1140.
Crossref
Joseph Daron. (2014) Challenges in using a Robust Decision Making approach to guide climate change adaptation in South Africa. Climatic Change 132:3, pages 459-473.
Crossref
Sheona Shackleton, Gina Ziervogel, Susannah Sallu, Thomas Gill & Petra Tschakert. (2015) Why is socially‐just climate change adaptation in sub‐Saharan Africa so challenging? A review of barriers identified from empirical cases. WIREs Climate Change 6:3, pages 321-344.
Crossref
Ijaz Rasool Noorka & J. S. Heslop-Harrison. 2015. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation 1511 1519 .
Gina Ziervogel, Mark New, Emma Archer van Garderen, Guy Midgley, Anna Taylor, Ralph Hamann, Sabine Stuart‐Hill, Jonny Myers & Michele Warburton. (2014) Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa. WIREs Climate Change 5:5, pages 605-620.
Crossref
Zarina Patel. (2014) South Africa's Three Waves of Environmental Policy: (Mis)aligning the Goals of Sustainable Development, Environmental Justice and Climate Change. Geography Compass 8:3, pages 169-181.
Crossref
Christoph Oberlack & Klaus Eisenack. (2014) Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation. Global Environmental Change 24, pages 349-362.
Crossref
Gina Ziervogel & Susan Parnell. 2014. Adapting to Climate Change. Adapting to Climate Change 57 73 .
Ijaz Rasool Noorka & J. S. Heslop-Harrison. 2021. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation 1 8 .
L. Pasquini, R.M. Cowling & G. Ziervogel. (2013) Facing the heat: Barriers to mainstreaming climate change adaptation in local government in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Habitat International 40, pages 225-232.
Crossref
Susan Cutter, Balgis Osman-Elasha, John Campbell, So-Min Cheong, Sabrina McCormick, Roger Pulwarty, Seree Supratid, Gina Ziervogel, Eduardo Calvo, Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi, Alex Arnall, Margaret Arnold, Joanne Linnerooth Bayer, Hans-Georg Bohle, Christopher Emrich, Stephane Hallegatte, Bettina Koelle, Noel Oettle, Emily Polack, Nicola Ranger, Stephan Rist, Pablo Suarez & Gustavo Wilches-Chaux. 2012. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation 291 338 .
Katinka Lund Waagsaether & Gina Ziervogel. 2012. Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources. Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources 485 497 .
Simon N. GoslingRachel Warren, Nigel W. Arnell, Peter Good, John Caesar, Dan Bernie, Jason A. Lowe, Paul van der Linden, Jesse R. O'Hanley & Stephen M. Smith. (2011) A review of recent developments in climate change science. Part II: The global-scale impacts of climate change. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 35:4, pages 443-464.
Crossref
Lorena Pasquini, Gina Ziervogel, Richard Cowling & Clifford Shearing. (2014) What Enables Local Governments to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation? Lessons Learned from Two Municipal Case Studies in the Western Cape, South Africa.. SSRN Electronic Journal.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.