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The Challenges of Water Management and Governance in Cities
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Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities. Unless water management and water governance processes are significantly improved within the next decade or so, cities are likely to face serious and prolonged water insecurity, urban floods, and/or heat stress, which may result in social instability and, ultimately, massive migration. Aging water infrastructure, one of the most expensive infrastructures in cities, is a relevant challenge in order to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water and sanitation, SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 13: climate action. The choice of good governance arrangements has important consequences for economic performance, for the well-being of citizens, and for the quality of life in urban areas. The better governance arrangements work in coordinating policies across jurisdictions and policy fields, the better the outcomes. Rapidly-changing global conditions will make future water governance more complex than ever before in human history, and expectations are that water governance and water management will change more during the next 20 years compared to the past 100 years. In this Special Issue of Water, the focus will be on practical concepts and tools for water management and water governance, with a focus on cities.
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Keywords
- assessment framework
- baseline assessment
- Cape Town
- City Blueprint Approach
- city networks
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Climate change mitigation
- co-design
- Coordination
- cost of inaction
- decentralized water reclamation with resource recovery
- design rainfall event
- drinking water
- flood control
- flood damage assessment
- flood resilience
- flood risk
- flood risk management
- footprint
- Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE)
- governance
- governance capacity
- governance strategies
- greenhouse gas emissions
- ICLEI
- IHP
- indicators
- Infrastructure
- Integrated Water Resources Management
- intergovernmental
- lifecycle analysis
- rainfall-runoff
- rainwater harvesting
- resilience
- science and technology
- SDGs
- social infrastructure
- Social network analysis
- Sponge City
- stakeholder involvement
- stakeholder participation
- storm water control measure
- storm water management
- Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)
- stormwater reservoir
- SuDS
- sustainability
- sustainability assessment
- Sustainable development goals
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- total cost of ownership
- UNESCO
- urban drainage
- Urban landscape
- urban planning
- urban pluvial flooding
- Urban Resilience
- Urban Water Cycle
- urban water management
- Urban Water Management Programme
- use-attainment
- wastewater management
- water ecology
- Water Governance
- water management
- water management sustainability
- Water Policy
- water scarcity
- Water security
- water sensitive cities
- Water Supply
- water-energy-food nexus
- water-reuse
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03921-151-7Editions