Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices

The water sensitive city: principles for practice.

With the widespread realisation of the significance of climate change, urban communities are increasingly seeking to ensure resilience to future uncertainties in urban water supplies, yet change seems slow with many cities facing ongoing investment in the conventional approach. This is because transforming cities to more sustainable urban water cities, or to Water Sensitive Cities, requires a m...

4. Principles and Practices of Cooperation in Managing International Water

This chapter is a nontechnical introduction to understanding and analyzing cooperation with a focus on international river basins. Starting with several definitions of cooperation, this chapter considers how cooperation succeeds and fails. After reading this chapter you will be familiar with various principles of cooperation, with their strengths and weaknesses, and preview to several examples ...

Approaching Water Sensitive Cities with Adaptive Rainwater Diversion

Total water cycle management (TWCM) discussion mostly limits the role of residential rainwater harvesting to providing an alternate water supply to a fraction of fit-for-purpose end uses. However, with operational improvements, greater outcomes can be achieved. By increasing the portion of roof area connected and developing adaptive rainwater diversion (ARD), reliable stormwater management outc...

Summary for Modellers Prepared for CRC for Water Sensitive Cities

Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment

Lorlene Hoyt addresses the difficult question of how the scholarship of engagement fits into, and is valued by, major research universities. Arguing that ‘[t]he thesis experiment is broken’ (p. 213), Hoyt sets out to redesign the individualised and isolating experience of writing a research thesis into a collaborative process driven by peer critique and support. This book presents the results o...