Sustainability Assessment of Urban Water Use from Building to Urban Scale in the GST4Water Project

Proceedings

Liserra, Tonino¹  Fusco, Emanuela Di²  Lenci, Alessandro³  Ciriello, Valentina⁴ 

[1] Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.;Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Industriale Edilizia e Costruzioni (CIRI ED), Università di Bologna, Viale del Lazzaretto, 15/5 40131 Bologna, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali (DICAM), Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy;Presented at the 3rd EWaS International Conference on “Insights on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, Lefkada Island, Greece, 27–30 June 2018

关键词: sustainability;    indicators;    multiple scales;    urban metabolism;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2110671

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The present paper illustrates some of results obtained in the GST4Water project concerning the development of appropriate metrics, methods and tools for the assessment of economic and environmental sustainability of urban water systems at different scales for a variety of stakeholders. At the household scale and based on data and algorithms to represent residential water demand, we reconstruct the behavior of domestic users and develop a suite of indicators accounting for consumption performances and sustainability, and a software tool geared at the needs of water consumers. Considering multiple scales ranging from household to urban, we develop a model based on urban metabolism, able to evaluate several performance indicators for both sustainability assessment and benchmark, comparing the impact of different management options for water demand and reuse.

【 授权许可】

CC BY