Fragmentation in Wastewater Governance: The Case of the Southern Beirut Wastewater Network

الموضوعات

علوم تطبيقية وتكنولوجية

الملخص

This thesis seeks to explore one of the best known failures of the wastewater sector inLebanon, the network in the area south of Beirut serviced by the Al-Ghadir wastewatertreatment plant. Despite the fact that a pipe network has been set in place, two pumpingstations have been executed, and a pre-treatment plant has been built in Choueifat, the network is not operational. Instead, wastewater is immediately dumped into the sea throughmultiple sea outfalls, often used as alternative ad-hoc solutions set up by municipalitiesalong the coastline. Looking specifically at this case study, I seek to unravel some of thefactors that explain why this wastewater system has failed. By investigating theinstitutional framework and the spatial organization of the system, my thesishypothesizes that several overlapping factors could have led to these conditions. First, Iargue that the structure of governance is at the core of the wastewater network failure,whereby the lack of coordination across public institutions causes overlaps and gaps inresponsibility and generates resistance to the implementation and operation of projects.Second, I argue that the spatial organization of the service area into multiplegeographies, marked by the division into numerous municipal districts, political-sectarianterritories, and formal-informal areas, creates fragmentation in governance,making it harder to coordinate across bodies. The circumstances of this failure may notbe generalizable across the country and beyond. It will therefore be impossible toexplain the failures of other networks by simply extrapolating from this case study. Yet,studying the specificity of a case, going deep into the circumstances and conditions thatsurround it, and unraveling what is common and could be studied for other cases is animportant first step to understanding why Lebanon’s planning agencies have failed toextend the sewer network within their urban areas. Another significance of this thesis isthe direct association of the wastewater sector with issues relating to environmentalpreservation, public health, overall quality of life, and environmental justice.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

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رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

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أسماء الملفات

2206243_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Fragmentation in Wastewater Governance: The Case of the Southern Beirut Wastewater Network

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

كلمات الباحثين

Fragmentation

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

Mona Fawaz

الإعداد

Nabee Hahussein Shokor

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية