This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance.
Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance research, containing interdisciplinary contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It addresses the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it shaped, and what the impacts are. The handbook's structure offers a progressive entry into the complexity of urban water governance. Starting with technical dimensions, the handbook addresses supply and demand, wastewater, and sanitation. It then considers regulation and economic factors, examining water utilities and services. Political processes, and the actors involved, are addressed and the handbook finishes with a part focusing on governance and sustainability, where chapters address critically important topics such as access to water, water safety, and water security.
This handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals interested in urban water governance, urban studies, and water resource management and sustainability more broadly.
Author(s): Thomas Bolognesi, Francisco Silva Pinto, Megan Farrelly
Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge/Earthscan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 407
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Contributors
Urban water governance: Approaching a pressing environmental and social challenge
Part I Technical and historical aspects of Water supply systems
Chapter 1 Urban water cycle and services: An integrative perspective
Chapter 2 Traditional systems of drinking water delivery: Technical aspects and sources
Chapter 3 Hybrid water supply systems: Resilience and implementability
Chapter 4 Urban water supply and life cycle assessment
Chapter 5 Modelling Urban Water Infrastructure Renewal
Chapter 6 Territories and technologies: History and current trends of their interaction in urban water services
Part II Technical and historical aspects of wastewater systems
Chapter 7 Conventional systems for urban sanitation and wastewater management in middle- and high-income countries
Chapter 8 Sanitation systems: Are hybrid systems sustainable or does winner takes all?
Chapter 9 Management of Urban Drainage Infrastructure
Chapter 10 History of technological change in urban wastewater management, 1830–2010
Part III Regulation and economic perspectives
Chapter 11 Institutional perspectives on water services
Chapter 12 Fragmentation in Urban Water Governance: Navigating Legal and Normative Modalities
Chapter 13 Revisiting the theory on the regulation of water utilities: Evolution, challenges, and trends
Chapter 14 Trends and comparisons of outcomes between public and privately owned utilities
Chapter 15 Institutional, economic, and spatial barriers to water services delivery in urban slums and informal settlements
Part IV Political processes
Chapter 16 Actor networks in urban water governance
Chapter 17 Policy transfer in urban water management: Evidence from ten BEGIN cities
Chapter 18 Rethinking urban water governance and infrastructure in Europe: Challenges and opportunities of regionalization and organizational autonomy
Chapter 19 Sustainability transitions in urban water management: Assessing the robustness of institutional arrangements
Part V Urban water governance and sustainability
Chapter 20 Urban metabolism and Water Sensitive Cities governance: Designing and evaluating water-secure, resilient, sustainable, liveable cities
Chapter 21 Leveraging artificial intelligence in addressing water safety challenges
Chapter 22 Political ecologies of urban water governance
Chapter 23 Territorial integration and innovation for good urban water governance
Chapter 24 Urban water security
Chapter 25 Urban water quality and chemical pollution: New emerging contaminants, nanomaterials, and microplastics
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