The urban water–energy nexus in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo: The ambivalent role of cross-sector coordination for urban sustainability
研究了开普敦、洛杉矶和马普托三个城市的水与能源治理，发现跨部门协调并非缺失，而是多样、有选择且有时相互冲突，受制度、政治和战略因素影响，对城市可持续发展既有促进也有阻碍。
Cities are increasingly encouraged to adopt cross-sector coordination mechanisms and visions as a response to complex urban sustainability challenges. However, infrastructure governance remains highly fragmented, with limited understanding of how and why coordination emerges, what issues it prioritises and whether these selective forms effectively address or obscure deeper structural challenges. This article investigates the dynamics of cross-sector coordination by examining water and energy governance in Cape Town, Los Angeles and Maputo – three cities with distinct governance structures and capacities yet facing similar socio-ecological pressures. It argues that rather than an absence of coordination, cities experience a proliferation of diverse, often selective and sometimes conflicting coordination efforts, each shaped by specific institutional, political and strategic imperatives.