Towards sustainable urban water management: A critical reassessment

摘要: Within the literature, concerns have been raised that centralised urban water systems are maladapted to challenges associated with climate change, population growth and other socio-economic environmental strains. This paper provides a critical assessment of discourse surrounds emerging approaches management infrastructure provision. As such, 'sustainable management' (SUWM) concepts scrutinized highlight limitations strengths in current lines argument point towards unaddressed complexities transformational agendas advocated by SUWM proponents. Taking an explicit view, it is shown specific context sector means changes occur as incremental hybridisation process. process driven range factors including lock-in effects legacy solutions, normative values vested interests agents, cost performance certainty perceptions risk. Different views these help explain why not achieved change proponents call for need reassessment system economics alternative service provision models.