Understanding and Managing Urban Water in Transition - Grafton, Quentin; Daniell, Katherine A.; Nauges, Céline.; Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel.; Chan, Noel Wai Wah.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015)
Chapter 1 Understanding and managing urban water in transition (introduction) -- Part 1 Water supply and sanitation -- Chapter 2 How water services manage territories and technologies: history and current trends in developed countries -- Chapter 3 Coping with extraneous water in sewerage systems -- Chapter 4 Challenges for water supply and sanitation in developing countries: case studies from Zimbabwe -- Chapter 5 The challenges of providing water and sanitation to urban slum settlements in South Africa -- Chapter 6 Integrating water quality into urban water management and planning while addressing the challenge of water security -- Chapter 7 The development of private bore-wells as independent water supplies: challenges for water utilities in France and Australia -- Chapter 8 Inter-basin transfers as a supply option: the end of an era? -- Chapter 9 Three engineering paradigms in the historical development of water services: more, better and cheaper water to European cities -- Chapter 10 Investing in the water infrastructure of tomorrow -- Part 2 Water demand and water economics.- Chapter 11 Long-term water demand forecasting -- Chapter 12 The use of non-pricing instruments to manage residential water demand: What have we learned? -- Chapter 13 The Social determinants of water consumption in Australian cities -- Chapter 14 Non-household Water Demand: the Industrial and Commercial Sectors -- Chapter 15 Integrating social aspects into urban water pricing: Australian and international perspectives -- Chapter 16 Does residential water use depend on water quality? Some answers from a French case study -- Chapter 17 A simulation model for understanding the consequences of alternative water and wastewater tariff structures: A case study of Fayoum, Egypt -- Chapter 18 Managing water variability issues -- Chapter 19 Volumetric Water Pricing, Social Surplus and Supply Augmentation -- Part 3 Water governance and integrated management -- Chapter 20 Governance and regulation of the urban water sector: Quoi de neuf? -- Chapter 21 Public-private partnerships and their ownership in the urban water sector -- Chapter 22 Issues of governance, policy and law in managing urban-rural and groundwater-surface water connections -- Chapter 23 Integrated management of urban water supply and water quality in developing Pacific Island countries -- Chapter 24 The "renaturation" of urban rivers: the case of the St Charles River in Quebec -- Chapter 25 Adapting to climate change in urban water management: flood management in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond area -- Chapter 26 Transboundary urban water: the case of Singapore and Malaysia -- Chapter 27 The opportunities and challenges of implementing 'water sensitive urban design': lessons from stormwater management in Victoria, Australia -- Chapter 28 How does energy efficiency affect urban water systems?.
Keywords: Water pollution; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Regional planning; Urban planning; Social sciences; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Environmental Economics; Environmental Management; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Social Sciences, general