Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance research, containing interdisciplinary contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It addresses the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it shaped, and what the impacts are. The handbook's structure offers a progressive entry into the complexity of urban water governance. Starting with technical dimensions, the handbook addresses supply and demand, wastewater, and sanitation. It then considers regulation and economic factors, examining water utilities and services. Political processes, and the actors involved, are addressed and the handbook finishes with a part focusing on governance and sustainability, where chapters address critically important topics such as access to water, water safety, and water security. This handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals interested in urban water governance, urban studies, and water resource management and sustainability more broadly.

List of Contributors Introduction- Urban Water Governance: Approaching a pressing environmental and social challenge Thomas Bolognesi, Francisco Silva Pinto, Megan Farrelly Part I: Technical and historical aspects of Water supply systems Urban water cycle and services: an integrative perspective Francisco Silva Pinto, Thomas Bolognesi, and Cristopher Gasson Traditional systems of drinking water delivery: technical aspects and sources Raziyeh Farmani and Chris Sweetapple Hybrid water supply systems: resilience and implementability Casey Furlong, Ryan Brotchie, Peter Morison, Lindsey Brown, Greg Finlayson Urban water supply and life cycle assessment Raphael Ricardo Zepon Tarpani and Alejandro Gallego Schmid Modelling Urban Water Infrastructure Renewal Yves Le Gat Territories and technologies: history and current trends of their interaction in urban water services Bernard Barraqué Part II: Technical and historical aspects of Wastewater systems Conventional systems for urban sanitation and wastewater management in Middle and High income countries Jennifer McConville Sanitation systems: Are hybrid systems sustainable or does winner takes all? Max Maurer Management of Urban Drainage Infrastructure Nelson Carriço, Maria do Céu Almeida, and João Paulo Leitão The history of technological change in urban wastewater management, 1830-2010 Jonas Hallström and Martin V. Melosi Part III: Regulation and Economic perspectives Institutional perspectives on water services Sylvain Barone and Pierre-Louis Mayaux Fragmentation in Urban Water Governance: Navigating Legal and Normative Modalities Lee Godden Revisiting the theory on the regulation of water utilities: Evolution, challenges and trends Rui Cunha Marques Trends and comparisons of outcomes between public and privately owned utilities Germà Bel Institutional, economic, and spatial barriers to water services delivery in urban slums and informal settlements Ellis A. Adams, and William F. Vásquez Part IV: Political processes Actor networks in urban water governance Manuel Fischer, Karin Ingold, Mert Duygan, Liliane Manny, Katrin Pakizer Policy transfer in urban water management: evidence from ten BEGIN cities Jannes Willems, Ellen Minkman, William Veerbeek, Richard Ashley, and Arwin van Buuren Rethinking urban water governance and infrastructure in Europe: Challenges and opportunities of regionalization and organizational autonomy Eva Lieberherr, Frank Hüesker, and Katrin Pakizer Sustainability Transitions in Urban Water Management: Assessing the Robustness of Institutional Arrangements Aaron Deslatte, Margaret Garcia, Elizabeth A. Koebele and John M. Anderies Part V: Urban Water Governance and Sustainability Urban metabolism and water sensitive cities governance – Designing and evaluating water-secure, resilient, sustainable, liveable cities S.J. Kenway, M.A. Renouf, J. Allan, KMN Islam, N. Tarakemehzadeh , M. Moravej, B. Sochacka, S. Surendran Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Addressing Water Safety Challenges Xu Wang Political ecologies of urban water governance Julian S. Yates, Marc Tadaki, and Cristy Clark Territorial Integration and Innovation for Good Urban Water Governance Susana Neto Urban Water Security Joost Buurman Urban Water Quality and Chemical Pollution. New Emerging contaminants: Nanomaterials and Microplastics Serge Stoll and Stéphan Ramseier Gentile Index

Thomas Bolognesi is a researcher at the Geneva School of Business Administration, HES-SO. His research investigates the processes of social-ecological systems evolution, emphasizing non-linearities and patterns diversity. He combines economics and public policy analysis to study the organization and effects of urban water services regulation, the development of water policy regimes, and water security. Francisco Silva Pinto is an Assistant Professor at Lusofona University (LU) and researcher at EIGeS, FE-LU, and CERIS, IST-UL. His research interests cover the application of numerical modelling and analytics to support decision making in governance, pricing, and finance of utilities (mainly water supply, wastewater, and waste) under critical socio-economic and environmental situations. Megan Farrelly is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. Her research explores the intersection of urban water governance and sustainability transitions, focusing on processes and pathways for delivering practical and socio-institutional change towards sustainable urban transformations.