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Author |
: Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) |
Publisher |
: IWA Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2015-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781780407593 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780407599 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water and Cities by : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries, and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water-risk exposure, the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics, and institutional and governance architectures. The analyses focus on four mutually dependent dimensions – finance, innovation, urban-rural co-operation and governance – and proposes a solutions-oriented typology based on urban characteristics. The report underlines that sustainable urban water management will depend on collaboration across different tiers of government working together with local initiatives and stakeholders.
Author |
: Carol Howe |
Publisher |
: IWA Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2011-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843393641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843393646 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water Sensitive Cities by : Carol Howe
Today’s urban water managers are faced with an unprecedented set of issues that call for a different approach to urban water management. These include the urgent changes needed to respond to climate change, population growth, growing resource constraints, and rapidly increasing global urbanization. Not only are these issues difficult to address, but they are facing us in an environment that is increasingly unpredictable and complex. Although innovative, new tools are now available to water professionals to address these challenges, solving the water problems of tomorrow cannot be done by the water professionals alone. Instead, the city of the future, whether in the developed or developing world, must integrate water management planning and operations with other city services to meet the needs of humans and the environment in a dramatically superior manner. Water Sensitive Cities has been developed from selected papers from 2009 Singapore Water Week “Planning for Sustainable Solutions” and also papers taken from other IWA events. It pulls together material that supports the water professionals’ need for useful and up-to-date material. Authors: Carol Howe, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands Cynthia Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Author |
: Xiaochang C. Wang |
Publisher |
: IWA Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2020-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1789060753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781789060751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems by : Xiaochang C. Wang
Building water-wise cities is a pressing need nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is mainly due to the limitation of the available water resources and aging infrastructure to meet the needs of adapting to social and environmental changes and for urban liveability. This is the first book to provide comprehensive insights into theoretical, systematic, and engineering aspects of water-wise cities with a broad coverage of global issues. The book aims to (1) provide a theoretical framework of water-wise cities and associated sustainable water systems including key concepts and principles, (2) provide a brand-new thinking on the design and management of sustainable urban water systems of various scales towards a paradigm shift under the resource and environmental constraints, and (3) provide a technological perspective with successful case studies of technology selection, integration, and optimization on the “fit-for-purpose” basis.
Author |
: Stephan Köster |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 495 |
Release |
: 2019-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030014889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030014886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Urban Water Management for Future Cities by : Stephan Köster
This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations. Both technical and institutional pathways to sustainable urban water management are developed on the basis of a broad, interdisciplinary problem analysis.
Author |
: Lawrence A. Baker |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2010-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0387849122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780387849126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Water Environment of Cities by : Lawrence A. Baker
The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a workshop “Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters” workshop held in 2006. The workshop assembled experts from engineering, planning, economics, law, hydrology, aquatic ecology, geom- phology, and other disciplines to present research ?ndings and identify key new ideas on the urban water environment. At a lunch discussion near the end of the workshop, several of us came to the recognition that despite having considerable expertise in a narrow discipline, none of us had a vision of the “urban water en- ronment” as a whole. We were, as in the parable, blind men at opposite ends of the elephant, knowinga great deal about the parts, but notunderstandingthe whole. We quickly recognized the need to develop a book that would integrate this knowledge to create this vision. The goal was to develop a book that could be used to teach a complete, multidisciplinary course, “The Urban Water Environment”, but could also be used as a supplemental text for courses on urban ecosystems, urban design, landscapearchitecture,water policy,waterqualitymanagement andwatershed m- agement. The book is also valuable as a reference source for water professionals stepping outside their arena of disciplinary expertise. The Water Environment of Cities is the ?rst book to use a holistic, interdis- plinary approach to examine the urban water environment. We have attempted to portrayaholisticvisionbuiltaround theconcept of water as a coreelement ofcities. Water has multipleroles:municipalwatersupply,aquatichabitat,landscapeaesth- ics, and recreation. Increasingly, urban water is reused, serving multiple purposes.
Author |
: Un-Habitat |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2013-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136546914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113654691X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities by : Un-Habitat
'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children from 1980 to 1995 The world's governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve, by 2015, the number of people who lack access to safe water. With rapidly growing urban populations the challenge is immense. Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities is a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the problems and how they can be addressed. This influential publication by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) sets out in detail the scale of inadequate provision of water and sanitation. It describes the impacts on health and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action; it analyses the proximate and underlying causes of poor provision and identifies information gaps affecting resource allocation; it outlines the consequences of further deterioration; and it explains how resources and institutional capacities - public, private and community - can be used to deliver proper services through integrated water resource management.
Author |
: Ismael Aguilar-Barajas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2015-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317906889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317906888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water and Cities in Latin America by : Ismael Aguilar-Barajas
Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.
Author |
: Nelson Manfred Blake |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 1956 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015031951216 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water for the Cities by : Nelson Manfred Blake
Author |
: Danilo J. Anton |
Publisher |
: IDRC |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781552501085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1552501086 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thirsty Cities by : Danilo J. Anton
Many cities in Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a water crisis as sources become exhausted or degraded. Urbanization, deteriorating infrastructures with a lack of funds for repairs, and inadequate polices are conspiring to cause water shortages. People are becoming concentrated in megacities, such as Mexico City with a population of almost 23 million, that have outgrown their water-supply systems. Urban areas are increasingly incapable of supplying water and sewer systems for their populations. By the year 2020, more than 500 million inhabitants of Latin America (two-thirds of.
Author |
: Ismael Aguilar-Barajas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2015-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317906896 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317906896 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water and Cities in Latin America by : Ismael Aguilar-Barajas
Approximately 80 per cent of the population of Latin America is concentrated in urban centres. Pressure on water resources and water management in cities therefore provide major challenges. Despite the importance of the issues, there has been little systematic coverage of the topic in book form. This work fills a gap in the literature by providing both thematic overviews and case study chapters. It reviews key aspects of why water matters in cities and presents case studies on topics such as groundwater management, green growth and water services, inequalities in water supply, the financing of water services and flood management. Detailed examples are described from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru, and there is also a chapter comparing lessons which might be learnt from US cities. Contributing authors are drawn from both within and outside the region, including from the Inter-American Development Bank, OECD and World Bank to set the issues in a global context.