Resilient Water-Wise Cities: Social, Environmental and Technical Contributions of Rainwater Harvesting Systems and Water-Reuse Techniques

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to consider a range of perspectives on and approaches to transformation for resilient and water-wise cities. Included papers should present recent advances, which can be social, environmental or technical in character, in relation to rainwater harvesting systems and water-reuse techniques with the aim of enhancing resilience and becoming more water-wise. Broad principles for the following objectives are also welcome: resilience to hydrological extremes (drought and flood); water quality impact; source runoff control; water resources protection; embedding socio-cultural values; facilitating changing social practices.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Modelling the hydrologic response of urban catchments under different scenarios implementing rainwater harvesting systems;
• Understanding household resilience through rainwater harvesting;
• Monitoring the hydraulic, quality and other performance aspects of rainwater harvesting and water reuse at the building scale;
• Assessing socio-economic impacts;
• Urban planning strategies to increase the resilience to hydrological extreme;
• Exploring the role of community connections to rainwater harvesting and water reuse;
• Using novel methods to investigate underexplored perpectives on water, resilience and cities

Assoc. Prof. Ilaria Gnecco
Assoc. Prof. Sarah Ward
Guest Editor

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