Journal article
A Research Agenda for the Future of Urban Water Management: Exploring the Potential of Nongrid, Small-Grid, and Hybrid Solutions.
- Hoffmann S Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Feldmann U Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Bach PM Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Binz C Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Farrelly M School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
- Frantzeskaki N Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia.
- Hiessl H Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, 76139 Karlsruhe, Germany.
- Inauen J Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Larsen TA Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Lienert J Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Londong J Faculty of Civil Engineering, Bauhaus University, 99421 Weimar, Germany.
- Lüthi C Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Maurer M Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Mitchell C Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Morgenroth E Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Nelson KL Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
- Scholten L Delft University of Technology, 2628 CN Delft, The Netherlands.
- Truffer B Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- Udert KM Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland.
- 2020-04-03
Published in:
- Environmental science & technology. - 2020
English
Recent developments in high- and middle-income countries have exhibited a shift from conventional urban water systems to alternative solutions that are more diverse in source separation, decentralization, and modularization. These solutions include nongrid, small-grid, and hybrid systems to address such pressing global challenges as climate change, eutrophication, and rapid urbanization. They close loops, recover valuable resources, and adapt quickly to changing boundary conditions such as population size. Moving to such alternative solutions requires both technical and social innovations to coevolve over time into integrated socio-technical urban water systems. Current implementations of alternative systems in high- and middle-income countries are promising, but they also underline the need for research questions to be addressed from technical, social, and transformative perspectives. Future research should pursue a transdisciplinary research approach to generating evidence through socio-technical "lighthouse" projects that apply alternative urban water systems at scale. Such research should leverage experiences from these projects in diverse socio-economic contexts, identify their potentials and limitations from an integrated perspective, and share their successes and failures across the urban water sector.
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- English
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- closed
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- DOI 10.1021/acs.est.9b05222
- PMID 32233462
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/9527
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