Sustainability and Water Sensitive Cities: Analysis for Intermediary Cities in Andalusia

Gustavo Bermejo-Martín and Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy
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Gustavo Bermejo-Martín: Department of Industrial Organization, Business Administration and Statistics, E.T.S. Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), calle José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy: Department of Industrial Organization, Business Administration and Statistics, E.T.S. Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), calle José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 17, 1-25

Abstract: There is currently a phenomenon of global urbanization, where in Europe intermediary cities play a major role by concentrating more than 40% of the European urban population. These types of cities have specific challenges regarding their sustainability and are key to meeting the objectives set out in the UN 2030 Agenda (United Nations, UN), due to their local character and proximity to the citizen. The intermediary cities of Andalusia in Spain, its urban sustainable development and its relationship with water are the object of analysis in this article. They are analyzed through the winning plans in the first call of the Spanish “Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy ” (ISUDS). In this process, the citizens are the main actors through their participation in the elaboration of the ISUDS, in which they express the scope of the “hydrosocial contract ” of citizenship. The research presented in this article analyzes the latter through a methodological framework applied to the ISUDS, which shows the unequal interest of Andalusian intermediary cities when integrating water into their sustainable development. The article ends with a series of recommendations that make it possible to bring these cities closer to the “water sensitive cities ” stage.

Keywords: sustainability; integrated sustainable urban development strategy (ISUDS); societal urban water needs; hydrosocial contract; medium cities; water sensitive cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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