The Water Sensitive City.

The Water Sensitive City.

"This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management. The approach involves reducing water consumption, harvesting rainwater, recycling rainwater and adopting Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) where surface water is not sent straight to drains but is intercepted by featur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, Gary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: West Sussex : Wiley, 2016.
Subjects:
Municipal water supply.
Water-supply > Management.
Water demand management.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Urban ecology (Sociology)
urban environments.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Municipal water supply
Water demand management
Water-supply > Management
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgement; Chapter 1 Water and Cities; The Molecule; Blue Planet; A Global Water Cycle; Terrain and Water; Seasons and Cycles; Variations in Rainfall; Changing Climates; Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide; Fossil Fuels and Growth; The Ancients and Water; Dams; Limits; Sanitation; Pollution; Urban Drainage; Potable Water; Waste; Rainwater Harvesting; Recycling; Biodiversity; Restoration; The Future; Privatization and Regulation; Coordination and Cooperation; Towards a Better Future; Chapter 2 A Brief History of Water Supply and Sanitation.
  • GenesisBronze Age; The First Aqueducts; Nineveh; The Nile; The Minoans; Qanats; Pompeii; Byzantium; Yucatan; The Incas; Qi; Lijiang; Medieval and Early Modern Europe; Early Victorian Period; Germ Theory; The Great Stink; Modern Sewers and Sewage Treatment; Sewage Treatment Refined; Standards for Sewage Treatment; Birmingham Corporation Water Act 1892; Los Angeles and the Owens Valley; Chapter 3 Demand; Basic Needs; Personal Consumption; Water Footprint; Dependency; China; Germany; India; Indonesia; Spain; United Kingdom; Water Footprint of Products; Meat; Vegetable Crops; Power Plants; Steel.
  • Mining, Oil and GasWhen Will Water Consumption Peak?; Chapter 4 Supply; The Roof of the World; Mountains; Forests; Reservoirs; Impacts of Dams; Lowland Rivers; Licensing Abstraction; Aquifers; Nitrate; Overabstraction; Desalination; Reverse Osmosis; Impacts of Desalination; High Cost of Desalination; Rainwater Harvesting; Pressure and Pumps; Pipework; Reliant on Rain; Chapter 5 Climate Change and Water; Climate Changes; The Greenhouse Effect; Callendar; Keeling; Atmosphere and Oceans; Details of the Carbon Cycle; The IPCC; Stern and the Financial Crisis; 400 ppm Breached; Two Degrees.
  • Sea Level RisesCoastal Cities; Warmer Seas; Ice; Feedback Loops; Ocean Chemistry; Snowmelt; Models and Projections; Summer Storms; Heat Waves; Drought; Chapter 6 Microclimate; Climate; Microclimate; City Microclimates; Urban Heat-Island Effect; Smog; Solving the Air-Pollution Problem; Cooler Roofs; Living Walls; Trees Cool Streets; Parks; Quality of Green Space; Locating Trees; Water Bodies; Rivers; Heat-Related Deaths; Energy Savings; An Overwhelming Case; Chapter 7 Ecosystem Approach; The Great Acceleration; The Convention on Biological Diversity; Ecosystem Approach; Ecosystems.
  • Principles of the Ecosystem ApproachOperational Guidance; Ecosystem Approach and the Water-Sensitive City; Impacts and Responsibilities; Limits; City-Scale Planning; The City Spectrum; Ecosystem Services; Valuation of Ecosystem Services; Supporting Services; Regulating Services; Provisioning Services; Cultural Services; Economics and Ecosystems; Chapter 8 Rivers and Coasts; The Source; A River of Life; Transport Revolution; Regeneration; Water Quality and Regeneration; The Idea Spreads; A More Natural Approach; River Restoration and Urban Regeneration; Greening the River Wall; Coastal Cities.

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