Projektbeschreibung
Nachhaltige und gerechte Wasserinfrastrukturen für die Zukunft
Die Bevölkerung der Welt und in den Städten wächst weiterhin, sodass neue, sorgfältig geplante Wasserinfrastrukturen notwendig werden. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt Water-Futures wird einen neuen theoretischen Rahmen für Zuweisungs- und Entwicklungsentscheidungen entwickeln, die sich um Trinkwasserinfrastruktursysteme drehen, die sozial gerecht und kosteneffizient sind und den Zielen für nachhaltige Entwicklung der Agenda 2030 der Vereinten Nationen entsprechen. Der Rahmen wird Überwachung und Kontrolle in Echtzeit mit langfristiger Haltbarkeit und Flexibilität integrieren und dabei wirtschaftliche, soziale, ethische und umweltbedingte Aspekte der nachhaltigen Umwandlung städtischer Wassersysteme beachten. Die Projektpartner werden Methodiken der Wasserforschung, der System- und Kontrolltheorie, der Wirtschafts- und Entscheidungswissenschaft und des maschinellen Lernens anwenden, um ein quelloffenes Forschungsinstrumentarium aufzustellen. Die Ergebnisse werden auf drei Fallstudien angewendet, die unterschiedliche Arten städtischer Wassersysteme repräsentieren.
Ziel
The world population living in urban settlements is expected to increase to 70% of 9.7 billion by 2050. Historically, as cities grew, new water infrastructures followed as needed. However, these developments had less to do with real planning than with reacting to crisis situations and urgent needs, due to the inability of urban water planners to consider long-term, deeply uncertain and ambiguous factors affecting urban development and water demand. These, coupled with increasingly uncertain climate conditions, indicate the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making framework for managing water infrastructures in the cities of the future.
This project aims to develop a new theoretical framework for the allocation and development decisions on drinking water infrastructure systems, so that they are socially equitable, economically efficient and environmentally resilient, as advocated by the UN Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development Goals. The framework will integrate real-time monitoring and control with long-term robustness and flexibility-based pathway methods, and incorporate economic, social, ethical and environmental considerations for sustainable transitioning of urban water systems under deep uncertainty with multiple possible futures.
The Water-Futures team will build on synergies from the four research groups, transcending methodologies from water science, systems and control theory, economics and decision science, and machine learning, into an integrated decision and control framework, to be implemented as an open-source research toolbox. The new science outcomes will be applied to three case studies exemplifying different types of urban water systems: a mature, relatively stable system; a mature and rapidly expanding system; and a relatively recent supply system in a developing country with high growth and special challenges, including limited resources, intermittent supply and high water losses.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringstructural engineeringhydraulic engineering
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Finanzierungsplan
ERC-SyG - Synergy grantGastgebende Einrichtung
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