Hoffmann, Sabine; Feldmann, Ulrike; Bach, Peter M.; Binz, Christian; Farrelly, Megan; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Hiessl, Harald; Inauen, Jennifer; Larsen, Tove A.; Lienert, Judit; Londong, Jörg; Lüthi, Christoph; Maurer, Max; Mitchell, Cynthia; Morgenroth, Eberhard; Nelson, Kara L.; Scholten, Lisa; Truffer, Bernhard; Udert, Kai M. (2020). A research agenda for the future of urban water management: Exploring the potential of non-grid, small-grid, and hybrid solutions. Environmental science & technology, 54(9), pp. 5312-5322. ACS Publications 10.1021/acs.est.9b05222
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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.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health |
UniBE Contributor: |
Inauen, Jennifer |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
0013-936X |
Publisher: |
ACS Publications |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Salome Irina Rahel Bötschi |
Date Deposited: |
25 Jun 2020 16:55 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1021/acs.est.9b05222 |
PubMed ID: |
32233462 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.143140 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143140 |
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