E-Brochure City Blueprint City Blueprint: is a baseline assessment of the sustainability of water management in a city (or other dominantly urban region). It allows a city to quickly understand how advanced it is in sustainable water management, compare its status with other cities, and share its best practices with other cities. This project is part of the European Commission Innovation Partnership on Water ( EIP Water ) and is also tightly linked to the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities .We have assessed 45 municipalities and regions (see picture) and detailed reports are available for seven cities (Rotterdam, Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Hamburg, Istanbul, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Amsterdam and Melbourne {in press}). Recently, we published a critical review of the City Blueprint methodology, to better separate trends and pressures (on which cities have hardly any influence) from their performance on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). We also included solid waste and applied it again to the 45 municipalities and regions. A City Blueprint is just the first step ( a baseline assessment ) in a long-term journey of communication and co-operation within and between cities. Good water governance is the real challenge . We invite cities to collaborate as the cost of inaction is often much higher than to wait for unmanageable maintenance cost or predictable catastrophes as a result of (1) urban heat island effects, (2) droughts, and (3) floods. In the E-Brochure you can find links to the most relevant papers of the OECD, the European Environment Agency, the EU project SWITCH, and our own work (Stef Koop, Rosa Sjerps and Kees van Leeuwen of KWR Watercycle Research Institute and Richard Elelman of CTM in Spain). LINK to our E-BROCHURE CITY BLUEPRINT: http://www.eip-water.eu/sites/default/files/E-Brochure%20City%20Blueprint%2014102015.pdf
Taxonomy
- Sustainability
- Water Management
- Environmental Impact Assessment