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Urban Environmental Policy and Planning: Land Use and Water

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 22526

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Peter Davies

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Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Interests: environmental governance and policy; land use and water planning; urban water management; urban greening

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The population, density, and use of resources within cities are continuing to expand. Water consumption is growing at twice the rate of the population, and urban development is the major contributor to the deterioration of the health of urban waterways. Concurrently, communities demand clean and reliable water sources, efficient and safe wastewater and stormwater solutions, and that their waterways are accessible and suitable for recreation. This provides considerable policy and operational challenges, not only to governments, but to water utilities and planners seeking to strategically plan for the future water needs of cities, manage current pressures and expectations, and to rectify past practices. At a policy level, the pursuit of sustainable urban water management, also known by many other terms, including water sensitive cities, low impact development, and water sensitive urbanism, has promoted multiple objectives. These range from managing stormwater quantity and quality, improving the ecology within rivers and the coastal and riparian zones, promoting water recycling and reuse, ameliorating the urban heat island effect, and improving the aesthetics and wellbeing of the community. It is arguably the diversity of these objectives, and therefore the range of stakeholders involved in urban water management  that makes water policy such a challenging area.

This Special Issue invites research that offers new insight and advocates for successful policy and governance approaches to advance urban water management. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary approaches that address the environmental, social, technical, economic, and legal drivers, in order to inform evidence-based policy and decision making. This could include practice-based reviews, case studies, theoretical ideas, or methodologies designed to support urban water outcomes.  In defining the scope of contributions, we framed this around the urban environment, and this may extend research into strategic water supply and security planning, integrated urban water management, managing water and riparian landscapes, community engagement and connection to water and water policy, and the intersection of land-use planning and water management.

Prof. Dr. Peter Davies
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • urban water policy
  • urban water governance
  • sustainable water management
  • metropolitan water planning
  • urban riparian management
  • urban planning
  • evaluation frameworks
  • urban water landscapes

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Objectives, Keys and Results in the Water Networks to Reach the Sustainable Development Goals
by Angel Valentin Mercedes Garcia, Petra Amparo López-Jiménez, Francisco-Javier Sánchez-Romero and Modesto Pérez-Sánchez
Water 2021, 13(9), 1268; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13091268 - 30 Apr 2021
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The world is continuously searching for ways to improve how water is used for energy. As the population increases, so do the needs for natural resources and, in turn, the needs for energy. This research sought to show how the world has tried [...] Read more.
The world is continuously searching for ways to improve how water is used for energy. As the population increases, so do the needs for natural resources and, in turn, the needs for energy. This research sought to show how the world has tried to achieve more sustainable forms of pressurized water distribution and to show the results that have been obtained. In this sense, technologies have been used for the production of clean energy, energy recovery instead of dissipation, reprogramming of pumping stations and hybrid systems. In many cases, much lower water and energy requirements are achieved and, in turn, greenhouse gas emissions related to water use are reduced. Sixty-one different water systems were analyzed considering different energy, economic and environmental indicators. The different operation range of these indicators were defined according to sustainable indicators. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Environmental Policy and Planning: Land Use and Water)
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Investigating Monetary Incentives for Environmentally Friendly Residential Landscapes
by Xumin Zhang and Hayk Khachatryan
Water 2020, 12(11), 3023; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12113023 - 28 Oct 2020
Cited by 5 | Viewed by 2203
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State and local governments develop policies that promote environmentally friendly landscaping practices with the goal to mitigate adverse environmental impacts from heavily maintained residential lawns. One of the mechanisms to achieve low-input landscaping practices in the urban environment is to promote the conversion [...] Read more.
State and local governments develop policies that promote environmentally friendly landscaping practices with the goal to mitigate adverse environmental impacts from heavily maintained residential lawns. One of the mechanisms to achieve low-input landscaping practices in the urban environment is to promote the conversion of monoculture turfgrass lawns into partial turfgrass, low-input landscapes. Rebate incentives are used as an instrument to encourage the adoption of such landscapes. This study investigates the effects of households’ monetary incentive requirement on households’ preferences and willingness to pay for low-input landscapes. The discrete choice experiment method was used to analyze responses from households categorized into low, medium, and high incentive requirement groups. The results show that rebate incentives may have significant positive effects on individuals’ intentions to adopt low-input landscapes. Participants with low incentive requirement were willing to pay more for environmentally friendly attributes, compared with their counterparts in the medium and high incentive requirement groups. Practical implications for relevant stakeholders are discussed. Full article
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Decoupling Urban Water Use and Growth in Response to Water Scarcity
by Brian D. Richter, Kendall Benoit, Jesse Dugan, Gabriella Getacho, Natalie LaRoe, Bailey Moro, Tyler Rynne, Maria Tahamtani and Allen Townsend
Water 2020, 12(10), 2868; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12102868 - 15 Oct 2020
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Many cities in the western US face difficult challenges in trying to secure water supplies for rapidly growing urban populations in the context of intensifying water scarcity. We obtained annual data from urban water utilities across the western US to document trends in [...] Read more.
Many cities in the western US face difficult challenges in trying to secure water supplies for rapidly growing urban populations in the context of intensifying water scarcity. We obtained annual data from urban water utilities across the western US to document trends in their water usage and service populations. We found that many cities have been able to accommodate population increases while simultaneously reducing their volume of water use, thereby decoupling growth from water use. This outcome is largely attributable to reductions in per-capita residential use. We identify additional untapped potential that can sustain and widen this decoupling for many cities. Full article
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Challenges and Achievements beyond Decision-Making Power of Planners: How Are Decisions on Planning for Stream Restoration Made in South Korea?
by Chang-Yu Hong
Water 2020, 12(10), 2708; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12102708 - 27 Sep 2020
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This research covers existing planning theory and possible ways to improve the decision-making process in Korean stream restoration. First, it attempts to recognize what extent the Korean stream restoration case follows Western environmental decision-making models. Additionally, key concepts and factors of environmental decision-making [...] Read more.
This research covers existing planning theory and possible ways to improve the decision-making process in Korean stream restoration. First, it attempts to recognize what extent the Korean stream restoration case follows Western environmental decision-making models. Additionally, key concepts and factors of environmental decision-making are discussed to build a foundation of planning theory. This research reveals key works in the broad and changing field of stream restoration that provides the foundation for understanding Korean water resource planning. To recognize the challenges and achievements of this planning, this paper first notes that, while technical perspectives of the engineering field have historically dominated stream restoration, current thinking recognizes the much greater complexity of stream restoration requires more than only engineering perspectives. After reviewing the literature in related areas, this research considers what the planning field has to offer. In the conclusion, this author argues that the application of citizen-oriented decision-making approaches could lead to better water resource management. Admittedly, this may still be hindered by political uncertainty and power conflicts caused by science-dominant environmental planning. Full article
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