Water Sensitive Cities

Carol Howe

ISBN 10: 1843393646 / ISBN 13: 9781843393641

Published by IWA Publishing Okt 2011, 2011

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Water Sensitive Cities
• Publisher: IWA Publishing Okt 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843393646
• ISBN 13: 9781843393641
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 163H x 23D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 163 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 576 grams

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Carol Howe, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands Cynthia Mitchell, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia