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  • Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought

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    Simpson, Nicholas Philip
    Simpson, Kayleen Jeanne
    Shearing, Clifford D
    Cirolia, Liza Rose
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    Shearing, Clifford D.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    At a time when flows of both water and finances were severely curtailed, this article explores the public and private adaptation actions which played out during Cape Town’s drought which produced a ‘shock within a shock’ on the municipality’s budget (2016–2018), this article provides a detailed and embedded account of the severity, urgency and complexity of the challenges that decision makers are faced with during such unanticipated events. Shifts in approaches are identified and traced through budget allocations to display uncharted governance arrangements which, although stabilising, present novel finance and governance ...
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    At a time when flows of both water and finances were severely curtailed, this article explores the public and private adaptation actions which played out during Cape Town’s drought which produced a ‘shock within a shock’ on the municipality’s budget (2016–2018), this article provides a detailed and embedded account of the severity, urgency and complexity of the challenges that decision makers are faced with during such unanticipated events. Shifts in approaches are identified and traced through budget allocations to display uncharted governance arrangements which, although stabilising, present novel finance and governance challenges amidst altered resource and operating conditions. Reflecting on observed shifts and shock to the municipal budget, the article highlights the challenge of an uncoordinated response between public and private actors that aim to secure high-reliability service delivery. Reflecting on the findings, recommendations outline resilience qualities necessary to municipal budgets through sketching contextually reflective questions for municipal financing models.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2019.1642203
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development on 15 Jul 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2019.1642203
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Urban and Regional Planning
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386788
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