Objective
Water management will be one of the main environmental problems of the 21st century. Large urban centres are major consumers of water but also offer unique opportunities for economies of scale in water conservation. Tackling water management at the city level makes also sense in terms of the clearly defined institutional framework, the direct motivation of local actors and the concentration of data and monitoring capacity.
The objective of the proposed project is to identify and evaluate alternative sustainable policies and policy instruments for water management in metropolitan European cities and areas. This will involve building up a system of relevant indicators and performing a case study analysis of selected European cities? where the success and failure factors of existing policies will be thematically analyzed and the alternative strategies for the sustainable use of water will be assessed.
The 1st work package of the project involves the preparation of expert reports by the partners of the research network in key topics relating to the sustainable use of water in metropolitan cities (e.g "innovative technologies for urban water-saving", "socio-cultural factors shaping water demand", "experience from the use of financial instruments in water-saving", etc). In the 2nd work package. a list of appropriate indicators to measure the sustainability of urban water use will be prepared and measured in the case cities (Amsterdam, Athens, London, Seville, Tel Aviv). In the third work package policies affecting water use in the case cities will be evaluated in five key sectors (technology, administration, society, economy and environment) and the crucial barriers and critical success factors will be identified by survey research and will be illustrated by the pentagon prism method. This will lead the way to the identification of alternative city strategies and policy instruments for sustainable water use (4th work package).
In addition to the conclusions from each case study and the emerging strategies which will be of use to the local planning actors, a European dimension will be given to the project in the form of "European Guidelines for the Sustainable Use of Water in Metropolitan Cities". The results of the project will be useful to other EU cities' authorities and to a number of EU actors (DGXI, DGXII, DGXVI, Task Force on Water). At completion of the scientific work of the project. workshops will take place in the case cities to disseminate the results to the public and to discuss with the local actors the possibilities and directions for action.
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11472 Athens
Greece
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