City Blueprints: 24 Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of the Urban Water Cycle

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2177-2197

  van Leeuwen, Cornelis J ^a   Frijns, Jos ^a   van Wezel, Annemarie ^a   van de Ven, Frans H M ^b,c  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

City blueprint; Climate change; Sustainability; Urban metabolism; Water footprint; Water management

Indexed keywords

BASELINE ASSESSMENT; CIVIL SOCIETY; DATA AVAILABILITY; DECISION MAKERS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GOOD PRACTICES; INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; MAASTRICHT; NETHERLANDS; POLICY MAKERS; POPULATION GROWTH; RESOURCE MANAGERS; ROTTERDAM; URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; URBAN WATERS; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER SECURITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BLUEPRINTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GROUNDWATER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SURFACE WATERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; CIVIL SOCIETY; CLIMATE CHANGE; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

LIMBURG [NETHERLANDS]; MAASTRICHT; NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND; VENLO;

EID: 84860884039     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0009-1     Document Type: Article

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