Liliana Miranda Sara

• Architect, Urban Planner and Manager
• Doctorant at University of Amsterdam

This research explores how digital information infrastructures can support just urban water governance. Specifically, we analyse this question through the development of a tool that aims to contribute to a fairer distribution of water resources among urban residents by exploring the potential of collecting and disseminating data regarding water acc...

While there is a growing interest in applying decolonial approaches within the field of information systems (IS), effective avenues for engagement remain largely unexplored. To this end, our paper introduces a framework focused on decolonial IS research informed by the notions of the pluriverse and conviviality. These concepts emphasise a focus on...

This paper details the development and design of the Observatorio Metropolitano de Agua para Lima-Callao (the metropolitan water observatory for Lima-Callao, MWO). The MWO is a digital, collaboratively developed observatory that aims to collect and share data about water access and infrastructuring practices within the metropolitan city of Lima-Cal...

Participatory urban observatories can potentially improve transparency in infrastructure governance, offer opportunities for residents' engagement, and amplify the voice of marginalized people in urban governance. While often optimistically presented as a tool to address empowerment issues in the Global South, participatory urban observatories are...

This paper details the development and design of the Observatorio Metropolitano de Agua para Lima-Callao (the metropolitan water observatory for Lima-Callao, MWO). The MWO is a digital, collaboratively developed observatory that aims to collect and share data about water access and infrastructuring practices within the metropolitan city of Lima-Cal...

This working paper examines the development and design of the Observatorio Metropolitano de Agua para Lima-Callao (MWO): a co-produced digital observatory for water and data justice. The metropolitan city of Lima and Callao (hereafter referred to as Lima) faces a water security challenge, which results from the combination of scarce water resources...

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/ The chapter is divided in two main sections. The first section follows an integrative approach in which hazards, exposure, vulnerability, impacts and risks are discussed following the eight climatically homogeneous sub-regions described in WGI AR6 (see Figure 12.1). The second section assesses the implemented an...

Chapter 12 assesses climate change impacts and risks, vulnerability as well as barriers and options for adaptation and climate resilient development in Central and South America.

En este libro que presentamos a continuación hay muchos tópicos de investigación y muchas reflexiones, ideas y experiencia sistematizada que han sido elaborados gracias a la generosidad y sapiencia de los autores, que nos respondieron con mucho entusiasmo y compromiso en esta tarea de repensar y de aportar en nuestro bicentenario. Habrá que reconoc...

In water catchment areas affected by drought, water management requires dealing with multiple - potentially conflicting - objectives of different water users on different levels. Policies to achieve a specific objective can have fostering or hindering impacts on the effectiveness of policies to achieve other objectives. To inform integrated water m...

This chapter analyses how different discourses influence knowledge-building processes in terms of their main concerns, water sector boundaries, and types of information considered legitimate, in the context of Lima. It shows how these processes are embedded in urban configurations, and how the legitimacy of mapping processes needs to be negotiated...

En las últimas décadas hemos asistido a una profunda reformulación de cómo entender las condiciones de riesgo en el contexto urbano. Sin embargo, aún enfrentamos significativos desafíos para capturar conceptual, metodológica y empíricamente los círculos viciosos de reproducción de riesgos que configuran ‘trampas de riesgo urbano’ frecuentemente inv...

This chapter discusses both citizen and stakeholder participation as an instrument in urban governance. Citizens and other non-state actors can be involved in local decision-making in many different ways. Privatization of previously public entities such as municipal water companies, port authorities or educational institutes has created new local a...

Scenario building and related analysis is useful in several fields, ranging from military and business planning to its more recent applications in addressing global challenges such as climate change or economic crises. This chapter provides an overview of scenario building in urban governance. It introduces a corporate case (Shell) and then uses ca...

Recently, three processes were used to analyze the consequences of plausible climate change scenarios for urban water governance in Lima. The first process, led by a German-financed research team, developed climate change scenarios using innovative tools. The second, Chance2Sustain, brought spatial perspectives to urban development and water govern...

The past few decades have witnessed an ongoing process of reform in local government systems across the developing world. These have been influenced by parallel processes of citizen pressures for greater influence in governance processes alongside the ever-present influences on governance reform originating from dominant agendas in globally influen...

This policy brief explores the mapping of city visions in fast-growing cities in several emerging economies (Brazil, South Africa, India, Peru). As cities have to deal increasingly with both complexity and uncertainty in their development, they are concerned with the future pathways their cities can take. City visions on urban development portray i...

Delegating state responsibilities for the management of water resources to regional bodies and the provision of drinking water and sanitation to local governments has led to new configurations in urban water governance. Drawing on case studies from four cities in the global South (Guarulhos, Arequipa, Lima and Durban), this article analyzes recent...

The Peruvian Forum of Cities for Life has promoted and worked for the implementation of Local Agenda 21 since 1997. The technical assistance and capacity building support for Local Agenda 21 in Peru's cities has produced many project initiatives and investments plans, has contributed to modifications in local planning norms and boosted the work of...

: This paper describes the work undertaken by the Cities for Life Forum (CLF) in Peru and by many of its members (from local governments, NGOs, universities and the private sector) in supporting the development and implementation of Local Agenda 21s in cities in Peru over the last ten years. It also describes the many means employed to develop the...

The development of initiatives for Local Agenda 21 for the cities of Peru, their documentation for the “best practices” programme of HABITAT II, and the demand for a formalized programme of support, capacity building and technical assistance has stimulated the establishment of the Peru Urban Management Education Programme (PEGUP). The PEGUP represe...

: In March 1996, representatives from several Peru-vian cities, grassroots organizations and NGOs, together with scientists and staff from universities and local government au-thorities, decided to establish a national forum to promote the development and implementation of Agenda 21 in cities in Peru. This came to be called the "Cities for Life" Fo...

OBJECTIVE The Inclusive Adaptation sessions will bring expert practitioners and academics together to discuss issues related to participatory planning in the context of cities vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The purpose of this session - also see D2 of this stream- is to critically examine aspects of participatory planning: what it loo...