The enabling institutional context for integrated water management: Lessons from Melbourne

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7300-7314

  Ferguson, Briony C ^a,b   Brown, Rebekah R ^a,b   Frantzeskaki, Niki ^c   de Haan, Fjalar J ^a   Deletic, Ana ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities ^*  (Australia)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decentralised infrastructure; Enabling context; Institutions; Integrated water management; Liveability; Social research; Transitions; Urban water; Vision

Indexed keywords

WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERWORKS;

DECENTRALISED; DECENTRALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE; ENABLING CONTEXT; INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS; INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT; LIVEABILITY; MELBOURNE; SOCIAL RESEARCH; TRANSITION; URBAN WATERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECENTRALIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; INTEGRATED APPROACH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; VISION; WATER INDUSTRY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE STUDY; CENTRALIZATION; DECENTRALIZATION; DESALINATION; FLUID INTAKE; INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER DEPRIVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA; MELBOURNE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

DECENTRALISED INFRASTRUCTURE; ENABLING CONTEXT; INSTITUTIONS; INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT; LIVEABILITY; SOCIAL RESEARCH; TRANSITIONS; URBAN WATER; VISION;

AUSTRALIA; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE; DROUGHTS; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; PUBLIC OPINION; RECYCLING; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84888849972     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.09.045     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Allen R., Beringer J., Brown R.R., Chaudhri V., Deletic A., Fletcher T.D., Gernjak W., Hodyl L., Jakob C., Reeder M., Tapper N., Walsh C. Blueprint2011 - Stormwater Management in a Water Sensitive City 2011, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Melbourne. T.H.F. Wong (Ed.).
2. Ashley R.M., Nowell R., Gersonius B., Walker L. Surface water management and urban green infrastructure: a review of potential benefits and UK and international practices. Found. Water Res. 2011, FR/R0014.
3. Ashley R.M., Blackwood D., Souter N., Hendry S., Moir J., Dunkerley J., Davies J., Butler D., Cook A., Conlin J., Squibbs M., Britton A., Goldie P. Sustainable disposal of domestic sanitary waste. J. Environ. Eng. 2005, 131(2):206-215.
4. Barbosa A.E., Fernandes J.N., David L.M. Key issues for sustainable urban stormwater management. Water Res. 2012, 46(20):6787-6798.
5. Barker F., Faggian R., Hamilton A.J. A history of wastewater irrigation in Melbourne, Australia. J. Water Sustain. 2011, 1(2):31-50.
6. Blaikie N. Designing Social Research 2010, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK. second ed.
7. Blomquist W., Heikkila T., Schlager E. Building the agenda for institutional research in water research management. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 2004, 40(4):925-936.
8. Brandes O.M., Kriwoken L. Changing perspectives - changing paradigms: taking the "soft path" to water sustainability in the Okanagan Basin. Can. Water Resour. J. 2006, 31(2):75-90.
9. Brown R.R., Ashley R.A., Farrelly M.A. Political and professional agency entrapment: an agenda for urban water research. Water Resour. Manag. 2011, 21(15):4037-4050.
10. Brown R.R., Keath N., Wong T.H.F. Urban water management in cities: historical, current and future regimes. Water Sci. Technol. 2009, 59(5):847-855.
11. Brown R.R., Farrelly M.A. Delivering sustainable urban water management: a review of the hurdles we face. Water Sci. Technol. 2009, 59(5):839-846.
12. Brown R.R., Farrelly M.A., Loorbach D. Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: the case of Melbourne's stormwater management. Glob. Environ. Change 2013, 23(4):701-718.
13. Cettner A. Overcoming Inertia to Sustainable Stormwater Management Practice 2012, (Ph.D. thesis), Luleå University of Technology. 1402-1544.
14. Chocat B., Ashley R., Marsalek J., Matos M.R., Rauch W., Schilling W., Urbonas B. Toward the sustainable management of urban storm-water. Indoor Built Environ. 2007, 16(3):273-285.
15. Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, undated. CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, retrieved 15/3/13. http://www.watersensitivecities.org.au.
16. de Graaf R., van der Brugge R. Transforming water infrastructure by linking water management and urban renewal in Rotterdam. Technol. Forecast. Social Change 2010, 77(8):1282-1291.
17. Dawson R. Re-engineering cities: a framework for adaptation to global change. Philos. Trans. A 2007, 365:3085-3098.
18. Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) Our Water Our Future White Paper - Securing Our Water Future 2004, Victorian Government, Melbourne.
19. Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy 2006, Victorian Government, Melbourne.
20. Dolnicar S., Hurlimann A., Grun B. What affects public acceptance of recycled and desalinated water?. Water Res. 2011, 45(2):933-943.
21. Dominguez D., Truffer B., Gujer W. Tackling uncertainties in infrastructure sectors through strategic planning: the contribution of discursive approaches in the urban water sector. Water Policy 2011, 13:299-316.
22. Ferguson B.C., Brown R.R., Deletic A. Diagnosing transformative change in urban water systems: theories and frameworks. Glob. Environ. Change 2013, 23(1):264-280.
23. Ferguson B.C., Frantzeskaki R.R., Brown R.R. A strategic program for transitioning to a water sensitive city. Landscape Urban Plann. 2013, 117:32-45.
24. Fontana A., Frey J.H. The interview. Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials 2008, 115-159. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. N.K. Denzin, Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.).
25. Gersonius B., Nasruddin F., Ashley R., Jeuken A., Pathirana A., Zevenbergen C. Developing the evidence base for mainstreaming adaptation of stormwater systems to climate change. Water Res. 2012, 46(20):6824-6835.
26. Gleik P.H. Water use. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 2003, 28:275-314.
27. Harding R. Ecologically sustainable development: origins, implementation and challenges. Desalination 2006, 187(1-3):229-239.
28. Harris G., Batley G., Fox D., Hall D., Jernakoff P., Molloy R., Murray A., Newell B.S., Parslow J., Skyring G., Walker S. Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study: Final Report 1996, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia.
29. Hurlimann A., Dolnicar S. Newspaper coverage of water issues in Australia. Water Res. 2012, 46(19):6497-6507.
30. Hurlimann A., Dolnicar S. When public opposition defeats alternative water projects - the case of Toowoomba Australia. Water Res. 2010, 44(1):287-297.
31. Jefferies C., Duffy A. The SWITCH Transition Manual 2011, University of Abertay Dundee, UK.
32. Loorbach D., Rotmans J. The practice of transition management: examples and lessons from four distinct cases. Futures 2010, 42:237-246.
33. Marks J.S., Zadoroznyj M. Managing sustainable urban water reuse: structural context and cultures of trust. Soc. Nat. Resour. Int. J. 2005, 18(6):557-572.
34. Milly P.C.D., Betancourt J., Falkenmark M., Hirsch R., Kundzewicz Z.W., Lettenmaier D.P., Stouffer R.J. Climate change - stationarity is dead: Whither water management. Science 2008, 319:573-574.
35. Mitchell V.G. Applying integrated urban water management concepts: a review of Australian experience. Environ. Manag. 2006, 37(5):589-605.
36. Monstadt J. Conceptualizing the political ecology of urban infrastructures: Insights from technology and urban studies. Environ. Plann. A 2009, 41(8):1924-1942.
37. Newman P. Sustainable urban water systems in rich and poor cities: steps towards a new approach. Water Sci. Technol. 2001, 43(4):93-99.
38. Pahl-Wostl C. Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change. Water Resour. Manag. 2007, 21(1):49-62.
39. Pettigrew A.M., Ferlie E., McKee L. Shaping strategic change: the case of the NHS in the 1980s. Public Money Manag. 1992, 12(3):27-31.
40. Rijke J., Farrelly M., Brown R., Zevenbergen C. Configuring transformative governance to enhance resilient urban water systems. Environ. Sci. Policy 2013, 25:62-72.
41. Roy A.H., Wenger S.J., Fletcher T.D., Walsh C.J., Ladson A.R., Shuster W.D., Thurston H.W., Brown R.R. Impediments and solutions to sustainable, watershed-scale urban stormwater management: lessons from Australia and the United States. Environ. Manage. 2008, 42:344-359.
42. Scott W.R. Institutions and Organisations: Ideas and Interests 2008, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California, USA. third ed.
43. Truffer B., Stormer E., Maurer M., Ruef A. Local strategic planning processes and sustainability transitions in infrastructure sectors. Environ. Policy Gov. 2010, 20(4):258-269.
44. Van Herk S., Zevenbergen C., Rijke J., Ashley R. Collaborative research to support transition towards integrating flood risk management in urban development. J. Flood Risk Manag. 2011, 4:306-317.
45. Victorian Government, undated. Living Melbourne, Living Victoria, retrieved 20/3/13. http://www.water.vic.gov.au/initiatives/livingvictoria.
46. Vo J.P., Smith A., Grin J. Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management. Policy Sci. 2009, 42:275-302.
47. Water Resources Strategy Committee for the Melbourne Area (WRSCMA) Final Report: Stage 3 in Developing a Water Resources Strategy for the Greater Melbourne Area 2002, Victorian Government, Melbourne.
48. Wong T.H.F., Brown R.R. The water sensitive city: principles for practice. Water Sci. Technol. 2009, 60(3):673-682.
49. Yin R. Case Study Research Design and Methods. Applied Social Research Methods Series 2009, vol. 5. Sage Publications, USA. fourth ed.