Title: A System Approach Towards Sustainable Management of Urban Water Resources
Abstract: The urban water resources are a complexsystems.There have complicatedcorrelations between the systems and its background as well as among the sub-systems within itself,and also among all the stakeholders.This paper shows the systematic features of urban water system and the problems in the current management,and indicates that the lack of cognitionon urban water system and the scarcityof system approach to management are the key reasons for low efficiency.Under the calling for sustainable development,this paper seeks for a sustainable approach and a framework of sustainable urban water management is proposed with the analysis of the activities and issues on the sustainable urban water management within planning and management implementationstages.This paper indicates that sustainable urban water management can not be enforced only by optimizing section management in a single city,but rather requires the consideration in the context of watershed management integrated all factors based on a system approach.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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