Academic Journal
A Framework for Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Water Cycle Services
| العنوان: | A Framework for Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Water Cycle Services |
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| المؤلفون: | Helness, Herman, Damman, Sigrid, De Clercq, Willem, Elema, Nico |
| المصدر: | 1-12 ; 6 ; European Journal of Sustainable Development ; 4 |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| المجموعة: | SINTEF: Open Archive |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Integrated Water Management, Sustainability Assessment, Water Cycle Services |
| الوصف: | A methodology and a framework for integrated sustainability assessment of water cycle services to be used for analysis of strategic options in integrated water management has been developed. The hypothesis was that a holistic assessment framework based on local data would enable decisionmaking and sustainable development on a local scale in integrated water management. The SUWAM assessment framework was developed using the water cycle services of a small town in Western Cape, South Africa, as case. The point of departure was the municipality's plan for sustainable development. The suitability of the SUWAM Framework was assessed by comparison with two other frameworks: TRUST, from the EU-project TRUST, and City Blueprint, developed in an EIP-water action group. The comparison demonstrated that a sustainability assessment framework must: (i) be tailored to the local conditions, and (ii) that the perspective of the user, often a decision maker, must be taken into account in the interpretation of results. The methodology used in the development of the SUWAM Framework fulfilled these two criteria and produced results that were recognised as relevant for the studied case by local stakeholders. The methodology is suited for comparison and further analysis of different mitigation and adaptation measures ; publishedVersion |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2239-5938 |
| Relation: | European Journal of Sustainable Development. 2017, 6 (4), 1-12.; urn:issn:2239-5938; http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2484219; https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n4p1; cristin:1554297 |
| DOI: | 10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n4p1 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2484219 https://doi.org/10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n4p1 |
| Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.A704704C |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 22395938 |
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| DOI: | 10.14207/ejsd.2017.v6n4p1 |