Neighborhood effects on parcel-level water use

Stoker, Philip; Hinners, Sarah J.; Jackson-Smith, Douglas B.; Büchert, Martin; Levine, Zacharia

doi:10.1007/s40899-019-00306-5

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“…The notion of compact cities (i.e., with a higher density) is widely thought to be a key pathway to achieving sustainable development goals [65]. This is relevant to water consumption too, with multi-unit dwellings typically having smaller per capita water footprints when compared to single dwellings [66]. In our data, the water consumption in single residential dwellings is 56 percent greater than in multi-unit dwellings.…”

Section: Compact City Agendasmentioning

confidence: 68%

The Responsiveness of Urban Water Demand to Working from Home Intensity

Moglia,

Nygaard

2024

Sustainability

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Working from home (WFH) is now widespread around the world. Sustainability benefits can arise from WFH, but there remains limited evidence on resource use and its full sustainability implications. To provide some answers on this issue, we analyse water use data from Sydney, Australia, mapped against mobility changes during the natural experiment that COVID-19-related lockdowns represented. We use an auto-regressive distributed lag model to evaluate how variations in WFH influence the demand for water, after accounting for factors like temperature, rainfall, water restrictions, and so on. We find that in response to a 10% increase in WFH, single residential demand does not significantly change, whilst multi-dwelling demand increases 1%, industrial demand decreases 2%, commercial demand increases 3%, and miscellaneous demand increases 3%. Overall, sectoral changes balance each other out, leaving no significant change in aggregate demand. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we operationalise WFH by looking at the intensity of workplace mobility during the pandemic. Second, we establish disaggregated sectoral water consumption elasticities to WFH and show that aggregate water consumption patterns disguise sectoral changes that relate to where and when water is consumed. These results need to inform infrastructure and water supply–demand planning.

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Section: Compact City Agendasmentioning

confidence: 68%

The Responsiveness of Urban Water Demand to Working from Home Intensity

Moglia,

Nygaard

2024

Sustainability

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“…The built environment or urban design is a major determinant of water use, flood patterns, and water quality. Stoker et al (2019a) found that up to 85% of the variation in urban water use can be explained by five characteristics of the built environment: lot size, total assessed value, housing age, vegetated surface, and housing density. Among these, landscaping and vegetation take a leading role in terms of explanatory power (Gage & Cooper, 2015;Stoker et al, 2019b).…”

Section: Dimension #6: Planning and Urban Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In doing so, it is important to consider social dynamic and tradeoffs between different goals. The built environment is closely intertwined with social dynamics (Stoker et al, 2019a). Neighborhood trends or esthetics working alongside with other structural factors, such as income, ownership, and family status, may reinforce certain water use or landscaping patterns (Stoker et al, 2019a).…”

Section: Dimension #6: Planning and Urban Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated water management recommendations in practice: coexistence of old and new ways in Arizona

2020

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Integrated water management (IWM) is widely regarded as a key strategy in achieving a variety of urban sustainability goals. Despite the promise of this strategy, however, uptake of IWM practices has generally been slow. A central reason for this lies in the divergence of action recommendations in the literature and actual water management praxis. In this paper, we explore how action taken by governments relate (or not) to IWM dimensions found in the literature. We do this by combining a corpus of actions taken by local governments in Arizona with a systematic review of the IWM literature. More precisely, we identify a confined set of IWM action dimensions particularly relevant to current praxis and apply these to water management practices reported by local governments in Arizona. We find that governments in the state systematically use IWM strategies to complement or enhance traditional water management approaches. Uptake differs across management spheres in terms of magnitude and form and is informed by contextual characteristics. Overall, our study indicates that transition may be guided by bottom-up experimentation, context-sensitive selection, and incremental change. This is in contrast to how IWM is often understood in the literature – as sharp shift and break with old traditions.

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