Strategies for new community-based water-management alliances against hydrogeological threats in the informal settlement of the valley of Selembao, Kinshasa (DRCongo)

Manaresi, Pietro
(2021) Interdisciplinary approaches for addressing the 21 century water challenges — Location: Online (26.April.2021)

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This research aims at mapping water geographies in the context of an African megacity, to foster integrated water resources management as a necessary practice for facing the increasing hydrogeological risks due to fast paced urbanisation combined to climate change effects. The research grounds in the hypothesis that the realisation of new cartographies about water management entities and water-related spatial structures entails the integration of otherwise isolated and fragmented interventions (place-based tactics) and governance levels (both ancestral -chef coutumiers- and relatively recent -municipal or district authorities). The research territory is a sub-watershed of the Congo River nested in the dispersal urbanization of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, within the administrative borders of the Selembao municipality. The valley of Selembao, crossed by the Bumbu stream, is one of the “cités de l´extension sud-est” hosting the informal settlements of the rural migration wave that followed the Congolese Independence.
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Manaresi, P. (2021). Strategies for new community-based water-management alliances against hydrogeological threats in the informal settlement of the valley of Selembao, Kinshasa (DRCongo). Interdisciplinary approaches for addressing the 21 century water challenges, Online. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/100336