The Uneven Waters of Accra and the concept of Environmental Justice: Towards new pathways of analyzing water inequalities

  • This working paper outlines analytical pathways that could contribute to deepening the understanding of water inequalities in cities of the Global South. It brings together the status quo of research on water inequalities in Accra, the capital of Ghana, and studies on Environmental Justice. In doing so, it argues for the need to analytically distinguish between the terms ‘(in)equality’ and ‘(in)justice’. Studying everyday water practices and per- spectives on water (in)justice of different stakeholders would be a suitable entry point for an in-depth ethnographic study that analytically separates water inequalities and water injustices but considers their interlinkages. The working paper is based on a literature review conducted in 2015 in the scope of the WaterPower project.

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Author:Lara Esther Bartels
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-13159
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-615c-1187
Parent Title (English):WaterPower Working Paper
Series (Volume no.):WaterPower Working Paper Series (3)
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Date of completion:2019/11/28
Publishing institution:Universität Trier
Corporative Author:Governance and Sustainability Lab
Release Date:2019/12/20
GND Keyword:Accra; Umweltgerechtigkeit; Wasserversorgung
Number of pages:26
Institutes:Fachbereich 6
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY-NC-ND: Creative-Commons-Lizenz 4.0 International

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