Urban water systems face multiple challenges related to future uncertainty and pressures to
provide more sustainable and resilient modes of service delivery. Transitioning away from …

In the complex context of urbanization and climate change, how to improve the resilience of
cities to deal with various uncertain and unpredictable threats is a new topic with both …

To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water use
increased by nearly 6 times during the last 100 years, and continues to grow. As water …

Within the literature, concerns have been raised that centralised urban water systems are
maladapted to challenges associated with climate change, population growth and other …

This article examines the role of water infrastructure in the production of state power, and
advances an understanding of nonhumans as power brokers. While state power is …

The role of agency in overcoming path dependence and enabling sustainability transitions is
receiving increasing attention. Currently lacking are more empirically derived explanations …

Many water related problems can be attributed to governance failure at multiple levels of
governance rather than to the resource base itself. At the same time our knowledge on water …

Urban water infrastructure and the institutions responsible for its management have
gradually evolved over the past two centuries. Today, they are under increasing stress as …

There is widespread international acceptance that climate change, demographic shifts and
resource limitations impact on the performance of water servicing in cities. In response to …

Interaction between institutional change and technological change poses important
constraints on transitions of urban water systems to a state that can meet future needs …