Print Email Facebook Twitter An integrated system approach to characterise a drinking water infrastructure system Title An integrated system approach to characterise a drinking water infrastructure system Author Kloosterman, Ritsche Anne (Vitens N.V.) van der Hoek, J.P. (TU Delft Sanitary Engineering) Date 2020 Abstract The object of this article is the drinking water infrastructure (DWI), a critical societal infrastructure. To make effective decisions it is important to characterise and understand the complexity of DWI systems. DWI systems can be seen as a system of systems, consisting of the social-ecological system and the social-technical system. The social-ecological system determines the location and seize of the water resources, while the social-technical system is about the technical infrastructure. The two systems with different characteristics must align to work effective together in the DWI system. The tension between different lifecycles of the assets and dynamic changes in both systems, the time of change, is important to take into account. The SoPhyTech infra framework was developed based on the two systems and time of change. The advantages of applying the SoPhyTech infra framework is studied in a case comparing two very different DWI systems: Indonesia (Semarang) and the Netherlands (Vitens). The SoPhyTech infra framework was shown to be effective for characterising a DWI system with different interacting lifecycles in different systems and it is expected that it also can be used to characterise other infrastructure systems. Subject ComplexityCritical infrastructureDecision-makingDrinking waterLong life time assetsLong-term decisions makingSemarangSocial-ecological systemSocial-technical systemSoSSystem of systemsTechnical infrastructureVitensWater resources To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ffba1e5-be18-4106-81d5-8f1facc0d24d DOI https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCIS.2020.105403 Embargo date 2020-08-24 ISSN 1475-3219 Source International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 16 (1), 1-22 Bibliographical note Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 Ritsche Anne Kloosterman, J.P. van der Hoek Files PDF f104312251117869.pdf 661.1 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6ffba1e5-be18-4106-81d5-8f1facc0d24d/datastream/OBJ/view