Cesar Casiano Flores

Cesar Casiano Flores
University of Twente | UT · Department of Public Administration (PA)

PhD
Assistant Professor

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Introduction
Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. My expertise is in the Governance of Urban Technologies and Sustainability. I have coordinated and conducted research projects in Europe, Latin America and Africa. I am a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab expert and editorial board member of various journals, including Nature Partner Journals -Urban Sustainability.
Additional affiliations
September 2018 - present
KU Leuven
Position
  • Research Associate
September 2017 - present
Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
Position
  • Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigación SNI
April 2017 - present
University of Twente
Position
  • Research Affiliate
Education
January 2013 - March 2017
University of Twente
Field of study
  • Innovation and Governance for Sustainable Development
August 2007 - December 2008
Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Estado de Mexico
Field of study
  • Sustainable Development
August 2000 - December 2004
Universidad de las Americas Puebla
Field of study
  • International Relations

Publications

Publications (58)
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Despite an increasing interest in the strategies to promote open data use in recent years, there has been a substantial lack of empirical and theoretical analysis of the governance modes that favored different types of open data initiatives. To address this gap, this study asks: How do governance modes support open data sharing in open government d...
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Digitalisation in the water sector is expected to address water-related challenges and support Europe’s Twin Transition (digital and green transition). However, there is a limited understanding among users and providers of digital public services regarding the specific conditions and complexities of digitalisation, innovation and water from a gover...
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Mientras los espacios públicos en México presentan un deterioro en sus condiciones físicas, los diversos tomadores de decisión relacionados a la planeación, diseño y mantenimiento de los espacios públicos presentan perspectivas particulares en la forma de cómo se tienen que atender las necesidades de los espacios públicos (Alvarado-Vázquez et al.,...
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Open government and open (government) data are seen as tools to create new opportunities, eliminate or at least reduce information inequalities and improve public services. More than a decade of these efforts has provided much experience, practices, and perspectives to learn how to better deal with them. This paper focuses on benchmarking of open d...
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Open government and open (government) data are seen as tools to create new opportunities, eliminate or at least reduce information inequalities and improve public services. More than a decade of these efforts has provided much experience, practices, and perspectives to learn how to better deal with them. This paper focuses on benchmarking of open d...
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Urban floods can cause significant damage and are expected to become more common due to climate change. Previous research has identified that climate change adaptation in cities requires the development of blue-green infrastructure (BGI), and it is expected that cities can leapfrog to a water-sensitive state by implementing BGI. However, leapfroggi...
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Climate change is a challenging reality, making adaptation at local, national and international levels a crucial need [1]. Against this background, this Special Issue demonstrates that the proper use of geospatial data can support the development of effective strategies/policies [2] and sustainable infrastructure to address climate change challenge...
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Automated vehicles are potential disrupters of the mobility system and are expected to address inclusive mobility issues. Yet, the transition to their full implementation in cities is expected to face numerous challenges. While companies and governments interested in their future implementation have conducted pilots to understand better their imple...
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Executive summary The project “ELISE Lot 1 - Leveraging the power of location information and technologies to improve Public Services at Local Level: An EU-wide Analysis” is part of a broader effort of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Digital Economy Unit (JRC.B.6) in particular. It falls under the ISA2 Action ELISE: Eu...
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Wastewater treatment is failing worldwide. Like many parts of the world, Mexico and Latin America continue to face significant challenges associated with the implementation of wastewater treatment plant (WTP) policy. Research has identified that wastewater treatment challenges are related to governance failures. To address these challenges, interna...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an enhanced conceptual model for the integrated public service (IPS) functionality of the European interoperability framework (EIF). The enhanced model incorporates co-creation within the three stages of the IPS cycle. While co-creation can provide innovative routes to overcome interoperability challe...
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Current open data systems lag behind in their promised value creation and sustainability. The objective of the current study is twofold: 1) to investigate whether existing open data systems meet the requirements of open data ecosystems, and 2) to develop a research agenda that discusses the gaps between current open data systems on the one hand and...
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Public spaces are considered a vital ingredient of prosperous cities as they support their sense of community, identity and culture. Understanding their relevance, the Mexican government has developed new regulatory frameworks. In 2016, the first federal legislation in Mexico was created and combined the concepts of urban development, public space,...
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The public sector is facing significant challenges regarding public services provision, including declination of users’ trust and limited resources. An alternative approach to traditional public service provision with the potential to address these challenges is the co-creation of public services. Co-creation promises to foster innovative solutions...
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The implementation of eGovernment in the Public Sector has numerous advantages for government and business sectors. Interoperability is crucial to streamline the digital solutions of public administrations. To enhance the digital transformation and implementation of eGovernment and to contribute to both interoperable cross-border and cross-sector p...
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Climate change, population growth and land-use change have increased the risk of urban floods. Urban floods cause severe damages to cities and their inhabitants, and they are expected to increase over time. Consequently, urban adaptation is required to shift from traditional infrastructure to Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI). Until recently, studies...
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Interoperability has proven to be key for the digitalization of public administrations. It can help to improve public services while saving time, reducing costs and increasing transparency. It has also been recognized as crucial to overcome societal challenges, such as climate change, housing, health, energy efficiency and urban mobility. Yet inter...
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Interoperability is key to overcome complex issues such as climate change, health, and urban mobility. However, interoperability implementation faces various challenges, including integration of services and data at the local level, historical legacies, changing technology, interest of stakeholders to work towards common approaches, and privacy and...
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The ‘fit-for-purpose’ (FFP) approach was developed to respond to the challenges that the creation of a sustainable land administration system (LAS) faces. FFP has proved its value in integrating technological innovations such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in LAS. Technological innovations need to consider the governance context when being impl...
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The Proposal for an Interoperability Framework for Smart and Sustainable Cities provides European Union (EU) local administration leaders with guidelines and principles to enable interoperability across domains, cities, regions and borders to support improved service delivery to citizens and businesses. The objective of the Study Report is to compl...
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Governance Assessment Frameworks allow the identification of implementation bottlenecks and they can propose answers to the identified challenges. However, no assessment framework has been developed to 1) understand how governance factors can affect the development and use of geospatial data (GD) and 2) to allow comparison across different governan...
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Interoperability is a prerequisite for electronic communication and the exchange of information between different actors, but it is much broader than technical in nature. Taken in the broader sense as presented in the EIF4CC, interoperability is a necessary condition for achieving and further developing Smart Cities and Communities in Europe. Inter...
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Mexico is currently facing important water management challenges. Cities in the country are facing water scarcity and at the same time they struggle with floods during the raining season. The water sensitive urban design (WSUD) approach has proved to be helpful around the world in tackling urban water challenges such as floods or water scarcity. Th...
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Mexico is currently facing important water management challenges. Cities in the country are facing water scarcity and at the same time, they struggle with floods during the raining season. The water sensitive urban design (WSUD) approach has proved to be helpful in tackling urban water challenges such as floods and water scarcity and it is being im...
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This article presents a novel capacity assessment framework, coined as Fit-For-Purpose capacity assessment framework (FCAF), to measure the capacity of the land administration system compliant with the Fit-For-Purpose approach. The framework incorporates legal, political, operational, social, technical, and technological capacity conditions and pro...
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Conventional land tenure recording approaches to create a sustainable land administration system (LAS) have been found to be of limited value in developing countries. To respond to this challenge, the ‘fit-for-purpose’ (FFP) approach was developed. This approach has gained relevance in the last years and promotes the use of new technologies like un...
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The objective of this paper is to present an analysis of the current development conditions of public spaces in Mexico through the perspectives of different actors. It will also explain the main issues of the actual planning regulatory framework concerning the inclusion of civil society in the planning and design process of public spaces in Mexico....
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Climate change has increased pluvial flood risks in cities around the world. To mitigate floods, pluvial risk maps with climate change scenarios have been developed to help major urban areas adapt to a changing climate. In some cases, subnational governments have played a key role to develop these maps. However, governance research about the role o...
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There are millions of unrecorded land rights in sub-Saharan Africa, which are still not mapped. Therefore, there is a clear demand for innovative solutions for land tenure recording, as also written in the target 1.4 of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In response to this need, the consortia of “its4land” European Commission Horizon 2020 pr...
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5.1 RAINWATER HISTORY IN MEXICO In Latin America and especially in Mexico, rainwater harvesting (RWH) has been a technique developed and practiced since before the Spanish conquest. The Mayan and Aztec cultures captured and distributed rainwater using channels for both drinking and irrigating their crops during the dry season. Mexico has invaluabl...
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Open Access Book available in: https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book/790/International-Rainwater-Catchment-Systems From time immemorial, people have been managing rain. The availability of water and water sources determined where people would be able to live. Adequate rainfall decided on the quality of agriculture. Technical advances and finance may...
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Climate change together with population growth and land-use change have increased the risk of urban floods. Urban floods cause severe damages to cities and their inhabitants, and they are expected to increase over time. Consequently, urban adaptation is required to shift from traditional infrastructure (grey) to multifunctional infrastructure (blue...
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This is a consolidated report on the applied governance and capacity assessment models in Kenya and Rwanda as part of WP7 'Govern and Grow: Sustainable governance and capacity buildings models' in Its4Land H2020 project.
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its4land is a European Commission Horizon 2020 project funded under its Industrial Leadership program, under an ICT call (H2020-ICT-2015) with the topic of ‘International partnership building in low and middle income countries’. its4land combines an innovation process with emerging geospatial technologies, including smart sketchmaps (Smart SkeMa),...
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OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1523908X.2019.1566060 River basin management and decentralisation reforms are promoted worldwide for solving water pollution problems. In Mexico, governmental efforts have been made to operate wastewater treatment plants countrywide, but federal administrations have not achieved the...
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Governance is key to tackling water challenges and transforming water management under the increasing pressures of competing water uses and climate change. Diverse water governance regimes have evolved in different countries and regions to regulate the development and management of water resources and the provision of water services. Scholars and p...
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Sin duda, uno de los objetivos más importantes de las sociedades actuales debería ser el promover un desarrollo sustentable, justo y equitativo. Esto daría las condiciones para que las poblaciones del mundo contemplen las mismas oportunidades de lograr bienestar, independientemente del lugar geográfico de su residencia, del grupo social al que pert...
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its4land is a European Commission Horizon 2020 project funded under its Industrial Leadership program, under an ICT call (H2020-ICT-2015) with the topic of ‘International partnership building in low and middle income countries’. its4land combines an innovation process with emerging geospatial technologies, including smart sketchmaps, UAVs, automate...
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Purpose This paper aims to associate two fields of research: circular economy and the restoration of water cycle through the implementation of rainwater catchment systems in urban zones. Design/methodology/approach This study considers the case of the metropolitan zone of Guadalajara, México. This urban concentration is the second largest in Mexic...
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Purpose – In Mexico, only 19.3 per cent of industrial water is treated (Green-Peace, 2014, pp. 3-4), whereas municipal treatment levels are approximately 50 per cent (CONAGUA, 2014a). This paper aims to focus on how the wastewater treatment plant policy, from a circular economy perspective, is affected by the governance context at the Presa Guadalu...
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Este artículo esta basado en el Conference Paper presentado en Xalapa (2016). RESUMEN Actualmente el tratamiento de aguas residuales es uno de los mayores retos hídricos al que nos estamos enfrentando a nivel mundial, y sus impactos son claros en temas de salud y ambientales. Por ello en México, en la última década, el gobierno federal ha realizado...
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Lack of wastewater treatment is among the main water problems worldwide. The implementation of wastewater treatment policies faces varying challenges given the many different contexts. Therefore, context-sensitive approaches are required from a governance perspective. This paper aims to improve the understanding of the role of contextual factors in...
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RESUMEN Actualmente el tratamiento de aguas residuales es uno de los mayores retos que enfrenta la gestión del agua a nivel mundial. Los países más desarrollados en promedio tratan apenas el 70% de sus aguas residuales, los considerados de ingreso medio el 38% y los de ingreso medio-bajo 28% (Allaoui, Schmitz, Campbell, & de la Porte, 2015, p. 7)....
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A lack of wastewater treatment is one of the main water problems worldwide. In high-income countries, 70% of wastewater is typically treated, but the rate falls to an average 28% in lower-middle-income countries. This low level has negative consequences for human health and for nature, with high economic costs. One response is the construction of w...
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In the last decades, policy reforms, new instruments development, and economic resources investment have taken place in water sanitation in Mexico; however, the intended goals have not been accomplished. The percentage of treated wastewater as intended in the last two federal water plans has not been achieved. The creation of River Basin Commission...
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RESUMEN Actualmente el tratamiento de aguas residuales es uno de los mayores retos hídricos al que nos estamos enfrentando a nivel mundial, y sus impactos son claros en temas de salud y ambientales. Por ello en México, en la última década, el gobierno federal ha realizado importantes inversiones para la construcción de plantas de tratamiento. Sin e...
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During the last decades of policy reforms, new instruments have been developed and substantial economic resources have been invested to improve water sanitation quality in Mexico. Despite these efforts, pollution levels have increased in different parts of the country and very few studies have addressed this crucial situation. This paper focuses on...
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Since the year 2000, actions at the three governmental levels have taken place to improve water quality in Mexico’s Puebla Alto Atoyac sub-basin. This paper reports a situation in which several policy actors have been striving for water quality improvement in that polluted sub-basin. However, when they were asked to evaluate their actions, they ge...
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Introduction Various international organizations cite the need for water management to be organized on a ‘river basin scale’ and with a high degree of ‘public participation’. These terms are associated with the universal remedies for water management problems that have developed in Chapter 2. However, context matters, and policies and concepts face...
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This paper presents an analysis from a policy change perspective about the Puebla’s Alto Atoyac sub-basin sanitation actions from 2000 to 2012. The study provides an example of a case where a variety of operational actions have been implemented from the three government levels and NGOs. After a decade neither stakeholders (government levels, civil...
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This article analyses and compares water management practices in Mexico and The Netherlands with a particular emphasis on floods. It shows the differences that exist between both systems and recommends an integral and governance oriented management as a model that effectively meets the challenges faced by flood control agencies. Even though Mexico...
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El objetivo de esta tesis es mostrar a través de datos principalmente económicos, que la gobernanza en el manejo del agua le es conveniente al gobierno, por lo que debe promover su aplicación. La gobernanza debe entenderse como la participación horizontal y vertical entre los diferentes grupos de interés, término que se explica a profundidad en el...

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