The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities
Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures
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An Integrated Simulation and Visualisation Platform for the Design of Sustainable Urban Developments in a Peri-Urban Context
Designing sustainable urban development is a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary challenge that can benefit from next-generation modelling tools to achieve high performance outcomes and integrated assessm...
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Productivity and water use of grazed subsurface drip irrigated perennial pasture in Australia
Dairy farmers in the southern Murray–Darling (M–DB) of Australia are considering subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) for pasture production in response to reduced water supply. Use of SDI in pasture production is...
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Integrated Water Cycle Modelling of the Urban/Peri-urban Continuum
The world is undergoing an intensive process of urbanisation. In 2008, for the first time in history, over half of the world’s population was living in urban and peri-urban areas. It is estimated that this num...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Decentralised Water Supply Strategies in Peri-urban Areas of Sydney
Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions for decentralised water supply systems is essential for water policy development, decision making and implementation of these systems. Two potential water supply stra...
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Valuing the Water Used in Peri-urban Regions of Hyderabad, India and in Western Sydney, Australia
Economic theory suggests that resources should be employed in different sectors to the point where their marginal values are equal. Yet what has been observed in many instances is that the marginal values of a...
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Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-urban Futures
Rapidly increasing population and urban migration across different regions of the world are creating new and complex challenges. It is now increasingly realised that we need to restructure and rebalance the wa...
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Securing Water Supply in Western Sydney: An Analysis of Water Use, Demand and Availability in the South Creek Catchment
Increasing urbanisation and climate change uncertainties are putting pressure on regional authorities to revisit water management strategies in Western Sydney (Australia). This chapter examines water use patte...
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Multiple Model Predictive Flood Control in Regulated River Systems with Uncertain Inflows
This paper presents a novel approach to real time automatic flood control in a managed river network that is subject to uncertain inflows. The proposed approach uses multiple models to represent inflows rangin...
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Using system dynamics to model water-reallocation
Improving the efficiency of water allocation has long been recognised as a key problem for the water resources management decision-makers. However, assessing the efficacy of management decision is difficult du...
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Temporal changes of irrigation system performance: development and test for a ratio of similar priority approach
Performance evaluation of irrigation systems is a key issue in the field of irrigation system management. This paper presents a Ratio of Similar Priority (RSP) method for irrigation systems performance evaluat...
