Print Email Facebook Twitter A research agenda for the future of urban water management Title A research agenda for the future of urban water management: Exploring the potential of non-grid, small-grid, and hybrid solutions Author Hoffmann, Sabine (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) Feldmann, Ulrike (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) Bach, Peter M. (ETH Zürich; Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Monash University) Binz, Christian (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Lund University) Farrelly, Megan (Monash University) Frantzeskaki, Niki (Swinburne University of Technology; Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Hiessl, Harald (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI) Inauen, Jennifer (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; University of Bern) Scholten, L. (TU Delft Sanitary Engineering) Date 2020 Abstract 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. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:61865e54-4d34-4b75-afd2-5681fa327bdc DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05222 Embargo date 2021-04-01 ISSN 0013-936X Source Environmental Science & Technology (Washington), 54 (9), 5312-5322 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Sabine Hoffmann, Ulrike Feldmann, Peter M. Bach, Christian Binz, Megan Farrelly, Niki Frantzeskaki, Harald Hiessl, Jennifer Inauen, L. Scholten, More Authors Files PDF es_2019_05222h.R2_Proof_hi.pdf 1.05 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:61865e54-4d34-4b75-afd2-5681fa327bdc/datastream/OBJ/view