City Blueprints: baseline assessments of water management and climate change in 45 cities

Environment, Development and Sustainability

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1113-1128

  Van Leeuwen, C J ^a,b   Koop, S H A ^a,b   Sjerps, R M A ^a  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blue City Index ; Climate adaptation; Resilient cities; Water governance; Water scarcity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BASELINE SURVEY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INNER CITY AREA; POPULATION GROWTH; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

ANGOLA; EUROPE; HELSINGBORG; SKANE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84938151277     PISSN: 1387585X     EISSN: 15732975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10668-015-9691-5     Document Type: Article

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