Water Sensitive Urban Design, WSUD in the Sydney Region

WSUD in Sydney e-newsletters

WSUD & SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT

LITERATURE

The Industry Report, Leadership in Sustainable Urban Water Management - An Investigation of the Champion Phenomenon Within Australian Water Agencies has two objectives. First, it aims to communicate the main findings of a research project that investigated the nature of emergent leaders (‘champions’) in Australian publicly-managed water agencies who play a key role in promoting sustainable urban water management (SUWM).

Second, it aims to communicate a suite of management strategies that can be used within water agencies to:

Create a supportive leadership context for champions and other leaders involved wi th the SUWM leadership process;
Foster effective champions at an executive level (‘executive champions’);
Attract, recruit, supervise and develop the leadership abilities of champions at a middle management level (‘project champions’); and
Encourage distr ibuted (group-based) leadership throughout water agencies to assist the SUWM leadership process.

This report is a resource for water managers who are seeking evidence-based strategies to help accelerate the transition to water sensitive cities . It also provides an opportunity for SUWM leaders to le arn more about leadership, refl ect on their own leadership performance, and identify strategies for improvement. Refer : http://www.urbanwatergovernance.com/pdf/taylor_industry_report_oct17.pdf

This scientific paper highlights the importance of building leadership capacity in organisations that are seeking to promote more sustainable resource management practices. It also provides a review of the literature on environmental leadership and provides practical guidance on strategies to build leadership capacity. Refer: http://www.urbanwatergovernance.com/pdf/taylor_promoting_sust_practices08.pdf

Transition to Water Sensitive Urban Design: The Melbourne Story is the product of a social research project by Rebekah Brown and Jodi Clarke that identified the key institutional change ingredients that will lead to the mainstreaming of the water sensitive urban design (WSUD) approach across modern cities. The insights provide an important basis for other cities, and other sectors of activity, to learn from the Melbourne case study. That is, it provides a solid platform of evidence for how institutional change can successfully occur and identifies key factors that underpin such change. Refer: http://www.urbanwatergovernance.com/pdf/final-transition-doc-rbrown-29may07.pdf

The following WSUD/sustainable water mangement literature has been grouped into the following categories to go straight to that section just click on the hyperlink below.

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WSUD Literature on Specific Developments
General WSUD Literature (planning, groundwater etc.)
WSUD Costing & Life Cycle Costs
Rainwater Tank Literature
Water Demand Literature
Greywater and Sewage Literature
Capacity Building, Organisational & Community Engagement

These papers have been gathered from a variety of sources. If you have any other relevant papers or links to sustainable water management case studies please let me know and I will include them. If you are searching for information from the USA or New Zealand then use the term Low Impact Development or Low Impact Design (LID) in your search engine of choice.