2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/21/2019 | 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM REHABILITATION OF FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS USING EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH | 151 DEF
THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHALLENGES RESULTING FROM REHABILITATION OF FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS USING EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH
Ecosystems and human well-being are intimately connected. Our study was focussed on aquatic ecosystem services produced by urban river systems. These ecosystem services are relevant in developing countries where urbanisation is putting a significant pressure on scarce water resources. Africa has several economic development needs which results in migration to cities, which in turn haven't provide the adequate urban infrastructure for sustainable city development. The aims of the study were to review the real challenges about water resource and environmental management resulting from the impacts of environmental degradation on health and integrity of freshwater resources and aquatic ecosystem services they provide; Investigate the impacts of ecological degradation on livelihoods and well-being of communities, specifically rural and peri-urban communities, who benefit from water resources and associated aquatic ecosystem services they provide; and to draw the relationships between degraded water resources and socio-economic development. The study showed that ecological degradation in urban and peri-urban environments resulted from a set of large scale, and very complex cumulative effects. This study provided evidence of loss of crucial informal economy income by people living in peri-urban areas with degraded freshwater ecosystems.
- Pollution
- Salinity
- Water Quality
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Stanley Liphadzi
(), Water Research Commission, STANLEYL@WRC.ORG.ZA;
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