Working towards sustainable urban water management: The vulnerability blind spot

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2362-2369

  Werbeloff, L ^a   Brown, R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Path dependency; Sustainable urban water management; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BLIND SPOTS; EXISTING PROBLEMS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; LOCK-IN; MELBOURNE; PATH DEPENDENCY; QUALITATIVE STUDY; URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; URBAN WATERS; VULNERABILITY; WATER INFRASTRUCTURE; WATER SCARCITY;

WATER SUPPLY;

WATER MANAGEMENT;

INFRASTRUCTURE; PARADIGM SHIFT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RESEARCH DESIGN; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84055193625     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2011.774     Document Type: Article

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