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Participatory Management of Traditional Urban Water Infrastructures in Iran
Spool, 2020 Qanats have played a vital role in underground water extraction since ancient times based on the community-based water management schemes in Iran. Due to recent urban sprawl and development pressures, qanats are progressively abandoned and degraded in ...
Sara Nourikia, Narjes Zivdar
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A Comprehensive Review of Machine Learning Techniques for Optimized Urban Water Systems (UWSs) [PDF]
ITM Web of ConferencesUrban Water Systems (UWSs) across the world are under mounting pressure as cities continue to expand, infrastructures age, and climate change introduces new levels of uncertainty into water availability and distribution.
Dwivedi Rahul +3 more
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Hydrology, 2022 Low Impact Development (LID) is one of the current research interests toward green infrastructures and urban flood control that have the capability to return developed watersheds to pre-development hydrological conditions, bringing numerous water ...
Sergi Garbanzos, Marla Maniquiz-Redillas
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Sensors in Civil Engineering: From Existing Gaps to Quantum Opportunities
Smart CitiesThe vital role of civil engineering is to enable the development of modern cities and establish foundations for smart and sustainable urban environments of the future.
Boris Kantsepolsky, Itzhak Aviv
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LandThe effects of global change on the planet are undeniable, especially in terms of climate change, which is alarming in regions with water resource deficiencies, such as arid and semi-arid territories.
Gregorio Castejón-Porcel +2 more
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Why Novel Sanitary Systems are Hardly Introduced?
Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2019 Innovations are required in urban infrastructures due to the pressing needs for mitigating climate change and prevent resource depletion. In order to address the slow pace of innovation in urban systems, this paper analyses factors involved in attempts ...
Micha Blanken +2 more
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Hotspot analysis for integrated multi-infrastructure asset management
Water Science and TechnologyUrban infrastructure, important for societal functioning, faces challenges from aging assets and increasing service demands. Traditional asset management practices, often conducted in silos, fail to address the interconnected nature of these systems ...
Shamsuddin Daulat +3 more
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Contaminants in Urban Stormwater: Barcelona case study [PDF]
Advances in Geosciences, 2023 Today's cities face simultaneous challenges due to rapidly growing populations, urban sprawl, climate change, and environmental pollution which pose a pressure on our traditional urban drinking water supplies.
M. Teixidó +5 more
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Reflections on maintenance in traditional and rudimentary urban water systems: the city of Uíge case
Concilium, 2023 The players of maintenance of systems of worldwide institutions of service or production, put the maintenance, as a top factor in the continuous operation, who ignore can lose customers, because the variable can double the costs of recovery of projects ...
Salvador Lindo Bernardo Cuhema +4 more
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Socio-cognitive Factors Affecting the Optimal Performance of Groups for the Protection and Exploitation of Water Resources in Isfahan Province [PDF]
برنامه ریزی فضایی, 2022 Today, cultural capital and its promotion are emphasized in reducing and controlling social issues such as environmental crises. It seems that sustainable development, especially its environmental aspect, depends on cultural and social factors.
Ali Ghanbari Barzian +2 more
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