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Housing social movements, in the course of their everyday activities, continually share and produce knowledge, a process defined as learning. This paper addresses a gap in the literature on housing activism, looking at learning as a crucial domain of housing movements’ politics and practice. By looking at housing activism through the lens of theories on learning in social movements, we provide a nuanced understanding of Barcelona’s neighbourhood-based housing groups. Previously centralized in one movement (the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca), housing activism in the city is now spread into a heterogeneous network, including small and localized collectives. The paper examines one neighbourhood housing group, the Grup d’Habitatge de Sants, and its relations with other groups, scrutinizing how processes and potentials of learning unfold in four critical moments: assemblies, workshops, direct action and debates/congresses. We reveal learning as a complex and multilayered phenomenon, arguing that it is fundamental for housing activism and an essential path towards achieving housing justice.
Mateus Lira; Hug March. Learning through housing activism in Barcelona: knowledge production and sharing in neighbourhood-based housing groups. Housing Studies 2021, 1 -20.
AMA StyleMateus Lira, Hug March. Learning through housing activism in Barcelona: knowledge production and sharing in neighbourhood-based housing groups. Housing Studies. 2021; ():1-20.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMateus Lira; Hug March. 2021. "Learning through housing activism in Barcelona: knowledge production and sharing in neighbourhood-based housing groups." Housing Studies , no. : 1-20.
Using a socioenvironmental perspective, this paper analyses strategies of water demand management (WDM) in Arequipa, Peru, and their perception by residents through a survey of six city districts (three in the core and three on the periphery) complemented with interviews with key stakeholders. The results show significant differences in WDM. Strategies to reduce demand through pricing are dominant. Domestic water-saving technologies are uncommon, and awareness campaigns are limited to periods of water stress. Despite differences in water access, improvements in water networks (leak repair, adequate water pressure and continuous supply) are the most demanded actions by residents.
Luis Zapana-Churata; Hug March; David Sauri. Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú. International Journal of Water Resources Development 2021, 1 -25.
AMA StyleLuis Zapana-Churata, Hug March, David Sauri. Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 2021; ():1-25.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLuis Zapana-Churata; Hug March; David Sauri. 2021. "Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú." International Journal of Water Resources Development , no. : 1-25.
The active participation of local stakeholders in governing protected areas is increasingly recognized in biodiversity conservation. While progress has been made in countries to facilitate inclusivity in conservation decision-making, there is limited practical guidance of participatory mechanisms enabling stakeholder engagement. Disentangling formal and informal governance arrangements within protected areas illuminates how stakeholder participation in decision-making is shaped and potentially improved. Here, we provide an analytical framework characterising governance arrangements to examine the formal and informal mechanisms guiding stakeholder participation conservation decision-making in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain). We conducted 76 semi-structured interviews and field observations with local stakeholders, and reviewed Park policy documents. Our findings reveal governance arrangements are contingent upon stakeholders’ responsibility (shared vs. concentrated) and influence (equal vs. unequal), regardless of the (in)formality of decision making. We found four types of arrangements that characterise governance of Sierra de Guadarrama National Park—cooperative, consultative, informative, and prescriptive—and identified the mutually supportive role formal and informal mechanisms play in shaping participation. We argue stakeholders’ responsibility and influence are key analytical axes to delineate participatory mechanisms in order to identify challenges and opportunities for more inclusive conservation. Our study provides analytical guidance that could be adapted and scaled up to other protected areas for understanding participation in conservation decision-making.
M.D. López-Rodríguez; I. Ruiz-Mallén; E. Oteros-Rozas; H. March; R. Keller; V.B. Lo; M.A. Cebrián-Piqueras; R. Andrade. Delineating participation in conservation governance: Insights from the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain). Environmental Science & Policy 2020, 114, 486 -496.
AMA StyleM.D. López-Rodríguez, I. Ruiz-Mallén, E. Oteros-Rozas, H. March, R. Keller, V.B. Lo, M.A. Cebrián-Piqueras, R. Andrade. Delineating participation in conservation governance: Insights from the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain). Environmental Science & Policy. 2020; 114 ():486-496.
Chicago/Turabian StyleM.D. López-Rodríguez; I. Ruiz-Mallén; E. Oteros-Rozas; H. March; R. Keller; V.B. Lo; M.A. Cebrián-Piqueras; R. Andrade. 2020. "Delineating participation in conservation governance: Insights from the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain)." Environmental Science & Policy 114, no. : 486-496.
Climate policy co-production represents an emerging institutional arrangement promising to better and fairly involve societal actors in resilience policy-making. Little evidence exists, however, on how climate policy co-production is understood, planned and performed in cities. This article sheds light on these co-production processes through an in-depth analysis of the case study of the Barcelona Climate Plan. While traditional forms of public engagement such as face-to-face workshops served to collect most proposals from organizations, new tools such as the digital platform resulted in increased lay citizen involvement and process transparency. Participants, including organizers of the co-production process, did not share a clear understanding of what co-production was about, which can endanger the fulfilment of the goals. These findings shed light over effective and limiting procedural and conceptual aspects for co-production of urban climate policies and guide a critical discussion over the added value and the transformative potential of the co-production approach to reframe urban climate resilience planning in cities.
Mar Satorras; Isabel Ruiz-Mallén; Arnau Monterde; Hug March. Co-production of urban climate planning: Insights from the Barcelona Climate Plan. Cities 2020, 106, 102887 .
AMA StyleMar Satorras, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Arnau Monterde, Hug March. Co-production of urban climate planning: Insights from the Barcelona Climate Plan. Cities. 2020; 106 ():102887.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMar Satorras; Isabel Ruiz-Mallén; Arnau Monterde; Hug March. 2020. "Co-production of urban climate planning: Insights from the Barcelona Climate Plan." Cities 106, no. : 102887.
Context Most protected areas are managed based on objectives related to scientific ecological knowledge of species and ecosystems. However, a core principle of sustainability science is that understanding and including local ecological knowledge, perceptions of ecosystem service provision and landscape vulnerability will improve sustainability and resilience of social-ecological systems. Here, we take up these assumptions in the context of protected areas to provide insight on the effectiveness of nature protection goals, particularly in highly human-influenced landscapes. Objectives We examined how residents’ ecological knowledge systems, comprised of both local and scientific, mediated the relationship between their characteristics and a set of variables that represented perceptions of ecosystem services, landscape change, human-nature relationships, and impacts. Methods We administered a face-to-face survey to local residents in the Sierra de Guadarrama protected areas, Spain. We used bi- and multi-variate analysis, including partial least squares path modeling to test our hypotheses. Results Ecological knowledge systems were highly correlated and were instrumental in predicting perceptions of water-related ecosystem services, landscape change, increasing outdoors activities, and human-nature relationships. Engagement with nature, socio-demographics, trip characteristics, and a rural–urban gradient explained a high degree of variation in ecological knowledge. Bundles of perceived ecosystem services and impacts, in relation to ecological knowledge, emerged as social representation on how residents relate to, understand, and perceive landscapes. Conclusions Our findings provide insight into the interactions between ecological knowledge systems and their role in shaping perceptions of local communities about protected areas. These results are expected to inform protected area management and landscape sustainability.
M. A. Cebrián-Piqueras; A. Filyushkina; D. N. Johnson; V. B. Lo; M. D. López-Rodríguez; H. March; E. Oteros-Rozas; C. Peppler-Lisbach; C. Quintas-Soriano; C. M. Raymond; I. Ruiz-Mallén; C. J. Van Riper; Y. Zinngrebe; T. Plieninger. Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services. Landscape Ecology 2020, 35, 2549 -2567.
AMA StyleM. A. Cebrián-Piqueras, A. Filyushkina, D. N. Johnson, V. B. Lo, M. D. López-Rodríguez, H. March, E. Oteros-Rozas, C. Peppler-Lisbach, C. Quintas-Soriano, C. M. Raymond, I. Ruiz-Mallén, C. J. Van Riper, Y. Zinngrebe, T. Plieninger. Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services. Landscape Ecology. 2020; 35 (11):2549-2567.
Chicago/Turabian StyleM. A. Cebrián-Piqueras; A. Filyushkina; D. N. Johnson; V. B. Lo; M. D. López-Rodríguez; H. March; E. Oteros-Rozas; C. Peppler-Lisbach; C. Quintas-Soriano; C. M. Raymond; I. Ruiz-Mallén; C. J. Van Riper; Y. Zinngrebe; T. Plieninger. 2020. "Scientific and local ecological knowledge, shaping perceptions towards protected areas and related ecosystem services." Landscape Ecology 35, no. 11: 2549-2567.
This paper explores the relations of centrality and hierarchy between cities and firms implementing Smart City strategies in the context of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI). While the literature has usually focused on the global dimension of cities and firms networks, exploring a national case offers interesting insights about the presence of multinational firms in these contexts and the role played by medium-sized cities in their market expansion. The analysis is based on a two-mode network of cities and firms participating in Smart City projects with the usual measures of betweenness, in-degree and closeness, as well as computing the Gini index for each of them to assess the levels of inequality. We then explore whether the structural advantages of participating in these networks have a leveling effect or rather reinforce existing hierarchies of cities. Second, we explore how firms are intertwined in Smart City projects and whether medium-sized local firms have a relevant presence. Our findings suggest these networks become a regional gateway for multinational firms to expand their presence in Smart City national markets, rather than empowering medium-sized cities and small national firms.
Ivan Serrano; Laura Calvet-Mir; Ramon Ribera-Fumaz; Isabel Díaz; Hug March. A Social Network Analysis of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5219 .
AMA StyleIvan Serrano, Laura Calvet-Mir, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, Isabel Díaz, Hug March. A Social Network Analysis of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5219.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIvan Serrano; Laura Calvet-Mir; Ramon Ribera-Fumaz; Isabel Díaz; Hug March. 2020. "A Social Network Analysis of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5219.
This article addresses household strategies for coping with perceived tap water quality issues. By using a household survey (n = 581) in Catalonia (Spain) and three models, this article analyses the drivers and motivations behind the installation of in-home water treatment systems, and the use of bottled water for drinking and cooking. The main explanatory factors of the higher consumption of bottled water were the perception of poor tap water quality, the lack of in-home treatment systems, and the presence of children at home. Income did not appear as a significant variable explaining the use of bottled water, unlike in other studies. The presence of in-home treatment systems is related to factors, such as perceived bad water quality, larger households, and single-family housing. Income and housing tenure appeared as explanatory variables only when considering systems requiring some kind of installation: lower incomes or renting a multi-family house reduce the probability of having an in-home water treatment that required installation because of important investments and operating costs, and the space needed in the housing units. In-house water treatment systems may become a solid alternative to bottled water when tap water raises problematic perceptions related to bad taste, odor, or lime presence.
Hug March; Xavier Garcia; Elena Domene; David Sauri. Tap Water, Bottled Water or In-Home Water Treatment Systems: Insights on Household Perceptions and Choices. Water 2020, 12, 1310 .
AMA StyleHug March, Xavier Garcia, Elena Domene, David Sauri. Tap Water, Bottled Water or In-Home Water Treatment Systems: Insights on Household Perceptions and Choices. Water. 2020; 12 (5):1310.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHug March; Xavier Garcia; Elena Domene; David Sauri. 2020. "Tap Water, Bottled Water or In-Home Water Treatment Systems: Insights on Household Perceptions and Choices." Water 12, no. 5: 1310.
The persistence of urban floods and the inability of aging sewage infrastructure to deal with stormwater make sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDSs) one of the emerging paradigms in urban water management, in which stormwater is no longer a hazard but a resource. Although most of the global research has been done on the technical aspects of SUDSs, their social impacts are not always taken into consideration. The neighborhood scale that characterizes SUDSs creates a different governance system—compared to the old structures of flood risk management—characterized by decentralization practices and where communities gain a better position of negotiation and new responsibilities. The objective of this research is to recognize how the diverse stakeholders involved in SUDSs interact with each other and to look into the different levels of understanding SUDSs as a new alternative of stormwater infrastructure. In order to accomplish this task, the paper introduces the case of the neighborhood of Bon Pastor (Barcelona, Spain), which has gone through urban transformations over the past years, promoting the development of SUDSs in 2012. Empirical evidence was obtained from 10 semi-structured interviews with government, technicians, social organizations, and local community citizens as well as revision of existing policy documents and grey literature on SUDSs and historical documents on the development of the neighborhood. The results show how active the community was during the design process and afterward, as sustainability gradually became one of the main topics in the neighborhood to be incorporated in new developments. However, it also unveiled several issues related to maintenance and the ambiguity of the term SUDS for the different stakeholders involved.
Andrea Nóblega Carriquiry; David Sauri; Hug March. Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona. Sustainability 2020, 12, 510 .
AMA StyleAndrea Nóblega Carriquiry, David Sauri, Hug March. Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (2):510.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrea Nóblega Carriquiry; David Sauri; Hug March. 2020. "Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona." Sustainability 12, no. 2: 510.
In this paper, we link the tools of critical cartography and cognitive mapping with more traditional gentrification studies in order to capture in situ the shifts associated with nascent processes of change in bodies, environment, and minds in Vallcarca, a liminal gentrifying neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain. We ask: How do the simultaneous and conflicting ways that people shape, perceive, and respond to gentrification processes affect how space and place are politicized within global urbanization processes? We build our maps through an analysis based primarily on listening to a diverse range of residents and constructing with them a combined cartography of the perceived type, degree, and location of changes in the neighbourhood. The results reveal an important dual role for greening and tourism, a differential geography of perceived gentrification risk across different social groups, and a limited reach in terms of who perceives gentrification. These results have important implications for how space and place are politicized and de-politicized and offer guidance useful to grassroots efforts to combat gentrification and displacement.
Bianca Antunes; Hug March; James J.T. Connolly. Spatializing gentrification in situ: A critical cartography of resident perceptions of neighbourhood change in Vallcarca, Barcelona. Cities 2019, 97, 102521 .
AMA StyleBianca Antunes, Hug March, James J.T. Connolly. Spatializing gentrification in situ: A critical cartography of resident perceptions of neighbourhood change in Vallcarca, Barcelona. Cities. 2019; 97 ():102521.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBianca Antunes; Hug March; James J.T. Connolly. 2019. "Spatializing gentrification in situ: A critical cartography of resident perceptions of neighbourhood change in Vallcarca, Barcelona." Cities 97, no. : 102521.
In this paper, we develop a novel interpretation of the internal relationship between value, rent and finance, thereby enabling a new reading of the process of financialisation. As we argue, responding to the important question of how best to conceptualise the relationship between value and finance necessitates an understanding of the internal relations with a third moment, that of rent. We therefore develop a triadic understanding of these three interrelated moments. Crucially, we demonstrate that fictitious capital now actively pursues forms of rent, deepening the interrelationship between value, rent and finance. We conclude with a critical review of the literature on the financialisation of water, showing how the conceptual framework we develop sheds light upon the relations out of which water infrastructure has been financialised, as well as suggesting strategic entry points for its contestation.
Thomas F. Purcell; Alex Loftus; Hug March. Value–rent–finance. Human Geography 2019, 44, 437 -456.
AMA StyleThomas F. Purcell, Alex Loftus, Hug March. Value–rent–finance. Human Geography. 2019; 44 (3):437-456.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas F. Purcell; Alex Loftus; Hug March. 2019. "Value–rent–finance." Human Geography 44, no. 3: 437-456.
In 2013, UNISDR recognized Barcelona as a role model city within the “Making Cities Resilient!” campaign. A year later, UN-Habitat selected the city to host the headquarters of the City Resilience Profiling Programme, a scheme to promote urban resilience beyond UNISDR’s traditional approaches of risk reduction. By the end of 2014, the Rockefeller Foundation incorporated Barcelona as a member of the 100 Resilient Cities network. Finally, in 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goal on resilient cities was sanctioned by the Catalan network of cities towards sustainability. These international agencies and networks shaped the turn from climate-change urban resilience to multi-hazard urban resilience in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Region. However, as we argue in this article, the conception and operationalization of urban resilience was not only inspired by international agendas and actors, but also mediated by particular local agendas and needs. For instance, in Barcelona, the commitments of the new local government in 2015 brought new topics, such as the reception of refugees or the universal access to basic services, within the terrain of urban resilience. Thus, in this paper we first explore the role of both global and local agendas to transmit and shape ideas and practices of urban resilience. To do so, we review twenty urban plans and institutional declarations, international reports, and press materials referring to urban resilience from the Barcelona Metropolitan Region. Second, we discuss the interplay between globally circulating and locally emerging resilience-building efforts, and we identify potential elements of consensus and dissensus regarding the way to design and implement urban resilience.
Mar Grau-Satorras; Hug March; Isabel Ruiz-Mallén. Legacies and Tensions while Building Urban Resilience: Exploring Urban Plans in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Region. Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleMar Grau-Satorras, Hug March, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén. Legacies and Tensions while Building Urban Resilience: Exploring Urban Plans in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Region. Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMar Grau-Satorras; Hug March; Isabel Ruiz-Mallén. 2018. "Legacies and Tensions while Building Urban Resilience: Exploring Urban Plans in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Region." Proceedings of IFoU 2018: Reframing Urban Resilience Implementation: Aligning Sustainability and Resilience , no. : 1.
Water infrastructure has been financed by differing combinations of private and public ownership throughout history and across different geographies. In the present moment, processes of financialization suggest a radical reconfiguration of these arrangements in a number of locations, such that water infrastructure is being transformed into a wealth extraction mechanism. In this Primer Article, we introduce financialization, showing how the term describes a process through which financial actors have gained new power and in which the locus of profit making at least appears to have shifted from the “real economy” to a financial economy. In the case of water infrastructure, processes of financialization have enabled apparently fixed and stable forms such as pipes, water treatment plants, and sewers to be transformed into liquid assets, opening up new opportunities for sovereign wealth funds and pension fund investors. The super‐profits made by these financial actors are best conceptualized as forms of rent, derived in part from the monopoly ownership of a basic need. This distinctive shift needs to be positioned in relation to broader changes in the political economy of water infrastructure. We situate financialization historically in relation to the development of water utilities and networks: municipalization and nationalization during the first decades of the 20th century, privatization since the 1990s, and renewed interest in remunicipalization in some places alongside the deepening logic of financialization in others. We conclude by thinking through the likely implication of water financialization for future infrastructural arrangements. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Value of Water Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Planning Water
Alex Loftus; Hug March; Thomas F. Purcell. The political economy of water infrastructure: An introduction to financialization. WIREs Water 2018, 6, 1 .
AMA StyleAlex Loftus, Hug March, Thomas F. Purcell. The political economy of water infrastructure: An introduction to financialization. WIREs Water. 2018; 6 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlex Loftus; Hug March; Thomas F. Purcell. 2018. "The political economy of water infrastructure: An introduction to financialization." WIREs Water 6, no. 1: 1.
Hug March. The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth? Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 197, 1694 -1703.
AMA StyleHug March. The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth? Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 197 ():1694-1703.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHug March. 2018. "The Smart City and other ICT-led techno-imaginaries: Any room for dialogue with Degrowth?" Journal of Cleaner Production 197, no. : 1694-1703.
The Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT), often referred to as the Thames super sewer, is currently one of the largest infrastructure projects underway in any European city. Costing an estimated £4.2 billion, the sewer connects London’s Victorian sewerage network with the Thames Wastewater Treatment Works at Beckton. The latter facility has been described as the UK’s Water–Energy–Food nexus poster child, for its combination of desalination facilities, green energy generation and wastewater treatment. While physically connected to the Beckton plant, the TTT is, paradoxically, designed with an apparent disregard for the water–energy nexus. If the Beckton plant represents a nexus-based vision of integration – what Macrorie and Marvin (2016) refer to as Mode 2 Urban Integration – the TTT harks back to a view of urban integration carried from the Victorian era through to the present moment. What unites the two projects, and what undergirds the transformation of the hydrosocial cycle, is a financial model more focused on the extraction of rents from Thames Water’s consumers. Thames Water’s dismissal of genuinely integrated alternatives appears guided more by the financialisation of the urban integrated ideal than by what is needed to respond to London’s broader environmental needs. Contesting the project, therefore, will involve slicing through the various claims to integration, going beyond the many proposals for evidence-based alternatives, and capturing the transformations being wrought by finance’s entry into infrastructure provision.
Alex Loftus; Hug March. Integrating what and for whom? Financialisation and the Thames Tideway Tunnel. Urban Studies 2017, 56, 2280 -2296.
AMA StyleAlex Loftus, Hug March. Integrating what and for whom? Financialisation and the Thames Tideway Tunnel. Urban Studies. 2017; 56 (11):2280-2296.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlex Loftus; Hug March. 2017. "Integrating what and for whom? Financialisation and the Thames Tideway Tunnel." Urban Studies 56, no. 11: 2280-2296.
Throughout the 20th century, urban gardening in central and northern Europe as well as in North America has received a great deal of academic attention. However, the recent proliferation of urban gardening in other geographies, such as southern Europe in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2007–2008, remains underexplored. The economic crisis put on hold urban developments in many southern European cities, leaving idle plots of land waiting to be urbanized. The crisis also triggered radical political demands, such as those of the Indignados, as well as fuelling narratives revolving around social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Barcelona emerges as a laboratory of urban gardening initiatives in vacant lots mobilizing either radical urban demands or embedding new post-crisis rhetoric around social entrepreneurship. Through a combination of qualitative methods, including participant observation, a literature review, semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and field diaries, we present a characterization and evolution of the three most prominent urban gardening initiatives in the city of Barcelona (including 54 gardens at the end of 2016): the Network of Municipal Gardens (municipally led gardens for retired people); the Network of Communitarian Gardens (social movements); and the Empty Plots Plan (social entrepreneurial urban gardening). Subsequently, we discuss the different meanings of gardening in crisis/post-crisis Barcelona as well as the urban politics that each initiative articulates. Our results show that urban gardens within the city are an expression of different and non-exclusive meanings that explicitly or implicitly, in a context of crisis and post-crisis, mobilize notions of political gardening.
Laura Calvet-Mir; Hug March. Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona. European Urban and Regional Studies 2017, 26, 97 -112.
AMA StyleLaura Calvet-Mir, Hug March. Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona. European Urban and Regional Studies. 2017; 26 (1):97-112.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLaura Calvet-Mir; Hug March. 2017. "Crisis and post-crisis urban gardening initiatives from a Southern European perspective: The case of Barcelona." European Urban and Regional Studies 26, no. 1: 97-112.
Maria Vallès-Casas; Hug March; David Saurí. Examining the reduction in potable water consumption by households in Catalonia (Spain): Structural and contingent factors. Applied Geography 2017, 87, 234 -244.
AMA StyleMaria Vallès-Casas, Hug March, David Saurí. Examining the reduction in potable water consumption by households in Catalonia (Spain): Structural and contingent factors. Applied Geography. 2017; 87 ():234-244.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMaria Vallès-Casas; Hug March; David Saurí. 2017. "Examining the reduction in potable water consumption by households in Catalonia (Spain): Structural and contingent factors." Applied Geography 87, no. : 234-244.
Santiago Gorostiza; Hug March; David Sauri. Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence. Political Geography 2017, 60, 132 -142.
AMA StyleSantiago Gorostiza, Hug March, David Sauri. Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence. Political Geography. 2017; 60 ():132-142.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSantiago Gorostiza; Hug March; David Sauri. 2017. "Flows from beyond the Pyrenees. The Rhône River and Catalonia's search for water independence." Political Geography 60, no. : 132-142.
Greig Charnock; Hug March; Thomas Purcell; Ramon Ribera-Fumaz. Urban regeneration, rent and labour. Gentrification as a Global Strategy 2017, 190 -196.
AMA StyleGreig Charnock, Hug March, Thomas Purcell, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz. Urban regeneration, rent and labour. Gentrification as a Global Strategy. 2017; ():190-196.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGreig Charnock; Hug March; Thomas Purcell; Ramon Ribera-Fumaz. 2017. "Urban regeneration, rent and labour." Gentrification as a Global Strategy , no. : 190-196.
Since the past few years, the smart city paradigm has been influencing sustainable urban water resources management. Smart metering schemes for end users have become an important strategy for water utilities to have an in-depth and fine-grained knowledge about urban water use. Beyond reducing certain labor costs, such as those related to manual meter reading, such detailed and continuous flow of information is said to enhance network efficiency and improve water planning by having more detailed demand patterns and forecasts. Research focusing on those initiatives has been very prolific in countries such as Australia. However, less academic attention has been paid to the development of smart metering in other geographies. This paper focuses on smart water metering in Spain and, more particularly, documents and reflects on the experience of the city of Alicante (southeastern Spain), a pioneer case of massive deployment of remote reading of water meters at the household level and for large urban customers. Through data and interviews with water managers from the water utility, we shed light on the costs and early benefits, as well as the potentialities and (unexpected) problems of this technology to contribute to more sustainable urban water cycles.
Hug March; Álvaro-Francisco Morote; Antonio-Manuel Rico; David Saurí. Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante. Sustainability 2017, 9, 582 .
AMA StyleHug March, Álvaro-Francisco Morote, Antonio-Manuel Rico, David Saurí. Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (4):582.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHug March; Álvaro-Francisco Morote; Antonio-Manuel Rico; David Saurí. 2017. "Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante." Sustainability 9, no. 4: 582.
Lucía Wright-Contreras; Hug March; Sophie Schramm. Fragmented landscapes of water supply in suburban Hanoi. Habitat International 2017, 61, 64 -74.
AMA StyleLucía Wright-Contreras, Hug March, Sophie Schramm. Fragmented landscapes of water supply in suburban Hanoi. Habitat International. 2017; 61 ():64-74.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLucía Wright-Contreras; Hug March; Sophie Schramm. 2017. "Fragmented landscapes of water supply in suburban Hanoi." Habitat International 61, no. : 64-74.