Journal article
A socio-technical model to explore urban water systems scenarios
FJ De Haan, BC Ferguson, A Deletic, RR Brown
Water Science and Technology | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2013.299
Abstract
This article reports on the ongoing work and research involved in the development of a sociotechnical model of urban water systems. Socio-technical means the model is not so much concerned with the technical or biophysical aspects of urban water systems, but rather with the social and institutional implications of the urban water infrastructure and vice versa. A socio-technical model, in the view purported in this article, produces scenarios of different urban water servicing solutions gaining or losing influence in meeting water-related societal needs, like potable water, drainage, environmental health and amenity. The urban water system is parameterised with vectors of the relative influen..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The research leading to this article was funded by the European Union through its Seventh Framework Programme project 'PREPARED: Enabling Change' and the Australian Government's Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. This ongoing research is supported under the Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP120100683), for which project Dr de Haan is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Post Doctoral Fellowship.