City Blueprints: Baseline Assessments of Sustainable Water Management in 11 Cities of the Future

Water Resources Management

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 5191-5206

  van Leeuwen, C J ^a,b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Sustainability; TRUST; Water footprint; Water management; Water scarcity

Indexed keywords

BASELINE ASSESSMENT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; POPULATION GROWTH; SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT; TRUST; VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER SCARCITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

WATER POLLUTION;

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; VOLUNTARY APPROACH; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

EUROPE;

EMILIA;

EID: 84890137974     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-013-0462-5     Document Type: Article

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