Water Sensitive Cities

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Howe, Carol Mitchell Howe, Cynthia Mitchell
• Assisted by: Carol Howe (Editor), Cynthia Mitchell (Editor)
• Publisher: Iwa Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9781843393641
• ISBN: 978-1-84339-364-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cities of the Future
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), Andere Technologien und verwandte Wissenschaften, Technology & Industrial Arts