Peri-urban Sustainability in South Asia Empirical case study Ghaziabad - Delhi NCR (JNU/Sarai/Sussex/natural and social scientists) Entry point WATER but emphasis on cross-domain work Peri urban falling in between the cracks – organised irresponsibility regarding watsan provision

Empirical case study Ghaziabad - Delhi NCR (JNU/Sarai/Sussex/natural and social scientists)

Entry point WATER but emphasis on cross-domain work

Peri urban falling in between the cracks – organised irresponsibility regarding watsan provision

Sustainability and the Peri-urban? Highly contested zone. Complementarities leading to opportunities but also exclusions Increasing environmental degradation and increasing marginalisation. Lack of services, lack of regulation, access deficit, Ambiguity, informality, illegality Increasing recognition of problems, but lack of approaches to manage so that rural-urban synergies can be realised and environment degradation and poverty addressed.

Identify actors and their positionality in relation to peri-urban water management. Consultations of framings, narratives aspirations Mobilisation of the poor for rights and services Examination of how Sustainability/non-Sustainability has been institutionalized in Delhi, and the opportunities for opening up socially-just processes of decision-making Research focus

Identify actors and their positionality in relation to peri-urban water management.

Consultations of framings, narratives aspirations

Mobilisation of the poor for rights and services

Examination of how Sustainability/non-Sustainability has been institutionalized in Delhi, and the opportunities for opening up socially-just processes of decision-making

Dominant narratives and pathways Universal ‘safe’ access via piped water supply Cost recovery and commodification. Providers need to access credit from the market. ‘ Making Water Safe’ (technology and quality) water filter industry, bottled water, S+ T, Diverse notions/standards of pollution, risk, wastewater treatment, sewerage

Universal ‘safe’ access via piped water supply

Cost recovery and commodification. Providers need to access credit from the market.

‘ Making Water Safe’ (technology and quality) water filter industry, bottled water, S+ T, Diverse notions/standards of pollution, risk, wastewater treatment, sewerage

Field insights: Diverse framings of the water system and management goals. Linking access and quality Linking supply and waste management Linking formal and informal systems Actual peri-urban water use practices not recognised Many peri-urban dwellers invisible to the central planning system Little expectation from the formal system amongst peri-urban communities

Linking access and quality

Linking supply and waste management

Linking formal and informal systems

Actual peri-urban water use practices not recognised

Many peri-urban dwellers invisible to the central planning system

Little expectation from the formal system amongst peri-urban communities

Incomplete knowledge and unrecognised cross-sectoral linkages (water-health-agriculture Certain risks highlighted over others Who is assuming responsibility to control risk Technologies presented as reducing risk Various tactics to sell technologies Language of science and guarantee of safety Notions of risk, and technological choices available to the poor

Incomplete knowledge and unrecognised cross-sectoral linkages (water-health-agriculture

Certain risks highlighted over others

Who is assuming responsibility to control risk

Technologies presented as reducing risk

Various tactics to sell technologies

Language of science and guarantee of safety

How should peri-urban Sustainability be defined and sought? Recognise conflicts between… Access and Quality Access and sustainability Justice and illegality Good governance and social justice

Access and Quality

Access and sustainability

Justice and illegality

Good governance and social justice

Thank You! Julia Day Harriet LeBris Synne Movik Lyla Mehta S ocial T echnological and E nvironmental P athways to S ustainability