relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/631/
title: Sustainable Urban Water Management in Germany - Evaluation of micro-transitions and discussion of their upscaling
creator: Kuhlmann, A.C.
description: Water is at the core of human existence. Human beings have an impact on water condition in both quality and quantity and are also dependent on good water conditions. The urban area is an opportune arena representing the relationship between human existence and water as it reveals the interruption of the natural water cycle. An approach addressing this relation is Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM). In Germany, pilot-projects implementing SUWM exist. Five of such pilot-projects are compared, finding lacking cost-efficiency and institutional inertia as main obstacles and individual persons supporting the project and frequent communication addressing prevailing uncertainties as main support. The implementation of SUWM in Germany is linked to transition theory. It is suggested to policy and planning practice to seize SUWM as a feasible alternative to the traditional urban water management and make it a requirement for planners to assess its implementation when developing an area.
date: 2017
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/631/1/KUHLMANN_ANNA_final_master_thesis.pdf
identifier:   Kuhlmann, A.C.  (2017) Sustainable Urban Water Management in Germany - Evaluation of micro-transitions and discussion of their upscaling.  Master thesis.