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: Received: 3 August 2022 / Approved: 11 August 2022 / Online: 11 August 2022 (13:37:12 CEST)
How to cite:
Chilaka, C.; Torell, G.; Ward, F. Overcoming Barriers to Water Conservation with Behavioral Nudges In Sub Saharan Africa. Preprints2022, 2022080223. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0223.v1
Chilaka, C.; Torell, G.; Ward, F. Overcoming Barriers to Water Conservation with Behavioral Nudges In Sub Saharan Africa. Preprints 2022, 2022080223. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0223.v1
Chilaka, C.; Torell, G.; Ward, F. Overcoming Barriers to Water Conservation with Behavioral Nudges In Sub Saharan Africa. Preprints2022, 2022080223. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0223.v1
APA Style
Chilaka, C., Torell, G., & Ward, F. (2022). Overcoming Barriers to Water Conservation with Behavioral Nudges In Sub Saharan Africa. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0223.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Chilaka, C., Greg Torell and Frank Ward. 2022 "Overcoming Barriers to Water Conservation with Behavioral Nudges In Sub Saharan Africa" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202208.0223.v1
Abstract
Growing water shortages for large regions of the arid regions of the world, are likely to become more recurrent as climate change impacts grow. Countries across the world are facing water security difficulties that stem from population growth, urbanization, and rapid industrialization. The use of behavioral nudges methods implemented to encourage a socially desired behavior at a low to zero cost, has been an effective method at reducing water consumption in places where they have been deployed. For example, studies in California USA, Barcelona Spain, and Australia indicate that adoption of nudges give significant positive results in water consumption reduction. We describe some of the barriers that make it difficult to implement behavioral nudges to address the water crises in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We investigate the literature available in Sub-Saharan Africa and discover that the application of behavioral nudges has been sparingly used for reasons that are not obvious at first glance. Second, we find that the potential impediments to the use of behavioral nudges in SSA to be awareness, inadequate access to science and technology, political systems that are poorly suited for implementing nudging, abundance of multiple ethnic groups that speak different languages, along with other barriers that could challenge implementation of behavioral nudges. In light of those barriers, we present a conceptual model with a potential to address these barriers to behavioral nudging a workable solution in SSA.
Keywords
Behavioral nudges; water conservation; technology; water efficiency
Subject
Social Sciences, Other
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