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Making Sustainable Development Operational: Integrated Capacity Building for the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Mexico

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Empirical understanding of sustainable development is improved by appreciating its dependence on integrated capacity building that can link sectors, social groups and disciplines together. An interdisciplinary team has been gaining practical experience of how to improve the socio-economic and institutional capacity of the urban water supply and sanitation sector in Mexico, a country with problems common to many rapidly-developing countries. Carried out with multi-stakeholder working groups, strategic capacities were identified to strengthen six components: (1) political and financial support; (2) human resources; (3) information resources; (4) regulations and compliance; (5) basic infrastructure; and (6) the market for support products and services. Three pilot cities were used to test the process under diverse geophysical and cultural conditions. Results of the conceptualization, diagnosis and planning stages are presented, and are being used to guide implementation. The process is adaptable to other countries, and to other natural resource and development sectors, such as soil and biodiversity conservation, energy and agriculture.

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  • Timothy Downs, 2001. "Making Sustainable Development Operational: Integrated Capacity Building for the Water Supply and Sanitation Sector in Mexico," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(4), pages 525-544.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:44:y:2001:i:4:p:525-544
    DOI: 10.1080/09640560120060948
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    1. Timothy J. Downs & Edward R. Carr & Rob Goble, 2017. "Re-imagining environmental science and policy graduate education for the twenty-first century using an integrative frame," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 7(2), pages 177-188, June.
    2. Timothy J. Downs, 2007. "A systematic integrated approach for crafting poverty reduction and sustainable development projects," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 31(1), pages 35-50, February.
    3. Poustie, Michael S. & Frantzeskaki, Niki & Brown, Rebekah R., 2016. "A transition scenario for leapfrogging to a sustainable urban water future in Port Vila, Vanuatu," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 129-139.
    4. Agustin Robles Morua & Kathleen E. Halvorsen & Alex S. Mayer, 2011. "Waterborne Disease‐Related Risk Perceptions in the Sonora River Basin, Mexico," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(5), pages 866-878, May.
    5. Downs, Timothy John & Larson, Heidi Jane, 2007. "Achieving Millennium Development Goals for health: Building understanding, trust and capacity to respond," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(2-3), pages 144-161, October.
    6. Edward J. Linky & Harry Janes & James Cavazzoni, 2005. "Affordable technologies for utilization of methane in a landfill environment: An example of an integrated technology array and evolving institutional networks," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 29(1), pages 25-36, February.

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