The primary objective of this study is to determine what drives states to plan for the impacts of a changing climate.
Urban water management via Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) has been successfully applied in cities worldwide.
An international review of stormwater regulation and practices, especially for low-exposure, landscape irrigation schemes in urban environments, was undertaken with a view to identifying what could be
Urban source separation infrastructure systems have a promising potential for a more sustainable management of household food waste and wastewaters.
This paper discusses the CO2 footprint of California's drought during 2012–2014.
Disasters impacts on urban environment are the result of interactions among natural and human systems, which are intimately linked each other.
The sustainability of water resources depends on the dynamic interactions among the environmental, technological, and social characteristics of the water system and local population.
To advance goal 6 (clean water and sanitation), this chapter explores different desalination processes to make seawater drinkable, which is an obvious solution to any water shortages. Given the high-polluting energy required in the desalination process, solar-desalination technologies is considered.
Elsevier,
Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe, 2017, Pages 19-35
This book chapter addresses goals 6 and 12 by providing an overview of water resources in Europe and the associated anthropogenic and natural pressures. It further introduces the main instrument of the European Union (the Water Framework Directive) initiated as a response to the expected water crisis.
Professor Paul T. Anastas holds the Teresa and H.
