Sustainability and Energy Efficiency of Urban Water Cycle
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 1708
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability; urban water cycle; water–energy nexus; performance assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Freshwater resources are facing unprecedent pressure due to climate change, population growth, and poor management. Understanding the water–energy nexus in the urban water cycle is a challenge which has outstanding relevance in the current climatic emergency. In this context, it is vital to improve energy efficiency in the provision of drinking water and sanitation services. This can be achieved by introducing changes is the current facilities or by moving to emerging paradigms such as extreme decentralization, wastewater reuse for potable purposes, etc. In any case, ex-ante and ex-post assessment are essential to quantify economic, environmental, and social impacts of adoting new systems, policies, and tools for improving sustainability and energy efficiency in the urban water cycle.
In this Special Issue, we are seeking high-quality and novel research articles in the context of the urban water cycle in the following related topics:
- Energy efficiency assessment;
- Devices, innovations, or policies to improve energy efficiency;
- Use of renewable energy sources;
- Water–energy nexus;
- Sustainability assessment;
- Eco-efficiency assessment;
- Climate resilience;
- Nature-based solutions;
- Life cycle assessment;
- Life cycle cost;
- Social life cycle assessment.
Dr. María Molinos-Senante
Prof. Dr. Ramon Sala-Garrido
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable urban water cycle
- water-energy nexus
- low carbon urban water cycle
- energy efficiency
- efficient water management
- decentralization water management
