The quest to become a world city: Implications for access to water

Public utility companies in liberalized markets – The impact of management models on local and regional sustainability

“…Hodson andMarvin (2009, 2010) claim that some of the world's most powerful cities are undertaking initiatives to deliberately reconfigure their socio-technical regimes. It is not surprising that these cities attract attention due to the regional and global power they have, the influence they exert on other cities, their capacity to undertake large technological/infrastructural projects, and their spread use of urban technologies (Nastar, 2014;Taylor, 2005). However, these authors also recognize the importance of addressing transitions happening outside this group of cities (which McFarlane (2010) calls the "usual suspects"), and suggest including them as relevant cases for the study of sustainability transitions.…”

“…More than the availability of technology, it is the intensity of its use that strengthens the cities' attractiveness: it is not a surprise that so-called "global cities" are characterized by their intense use of technology (see e.g. Hodson and Marvin, 2010;Nastar, 2014;Vojnovic, 2014). As we will later discuss, utilities and the infrastructure required to provide them play a particularly central role.…”

Waterscapes Asia: Concepts and Practices

“…In other words, the idea of waterscape should be based on tried and tested empirical work on a range of issues and not just a theoretical construct dreamed up in an armchair. Indeed, the keyword "waterscape" has been identified with a range of research topics that includes psychological assessment of feelings of tranquility and preference (tranquility rating higher for field/forest and large waterscape scenes), to water quality assessments that address urban ecological design and the impact of land use change in the watershed, to gender issues, to issues of water supply and access in both urban and rural communities [32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,12,18,40]. Most of this research has been done by academic geographers, although to a lesser extent, environmental engineers, environmental scientists, urban planners and designers, government agencies and not-forprofits have been involved.…”

Assessment of land cover relocation incorporating the effects of human activity in typical urban and rural catchments for the design of management policies

“…Forest regions previously considered to be wasteland have been developed into productive farms. As agricultural practices have developed, the increasing population has become concentrated largely in cities and mega-cities during the last three decades (Lu and Campbell, 2009;Lo and Yeung, 1996;Mouri and Oki, 2010;Mouri et al, 2013b;Nastar, 2014;Rouillard et al, 2014;Sankaran et al, 2014). The shift from rice fields to urban land-uses requires landform transformation using landfill to protect against floods.…”