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Managing Climate Change Shocks: South African Wine Industry and Cape Town's Adaptation to the “Day Zero” Water Crisis
Abstract
In 2017, Cape Town faced a severe drought. The incident would possibly culminate in that city's taps being turned off by March 2018. The likely day of the city's water facilities completely running dry and leaving more than three million residents without water was labelled ‘Day Zero'. Cape Town is part of the Western Province of South Africa which contains large stretches of vineyards which were highly affected by the drought. The South African wine industry, being one of the top major producers of wine in the world, stood to be severely affected. This chapter documents how the wine industry was impacted by this climate crisis and the adaptive mechanisms it implemented. Further, the incident provides a case example of how climate shocks may compel further futuristic thinking on the need to contemplate adaptive mechanisms by cities regarding managing future disruptive climate risks.
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