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The speed and scale of urbanization provide serious challenges for governments all over the world with regard to the realization, maintenance, and operation of public urban infrastructures. These infrastructures are needed to keep up with living standards and to create conditions for sustainable development. The lack of public funds and the inefficiencies of public service provision have given rise to initiatives to stimulate private parties to invest their resources in public urban infrastructures. However, private sector participation creates a whole range of new challenges. The potential benefits are countered by concerns about the compatibility of the private sector's focus on short‐term return on investment with the long‐term perspective needed to realize sustainability targets. On the basis of a review of literature on experiences with private sector participation in urban infrastructure projects, this article identifies governance practices that help or hinder the reconciliation of private sector participation in urban infrastructure projects with the objective to increase the sustainability of the urban environment.

With recent transitions from unilateral to joint river basin management, distances between social systems for negotiating water issues has largely increased. Thus, riparian local governments have resorted to the use of mediated technology for the management of water issues. Physical presence is thus replaced by mediated presence, to bridge the distance and facilitate joint actions. Mediated presence is commonly employed to resolve short-term water management problems with rare instances of negotiating long-term water system changes. This has led to the inextricable coupling of river basin management to short-term actions at the detriment of the much-needed long-term changes. In this paper, we assess the potential for a climate change game known as Nzoia We-Share-It in enabling long-term water planning. To do this, we use the YUTPA framework that models mediated presence for long-term climate …