A participatory system dynamics model to investigate sustainable urban water management in Ebbsfleet Garden City
Publication Date
January 13, 2021
Creators
Description
Growing urban populations, changes in rainfall patterns and ageing infrastructure represent significant challenges for urban water management (UWM). There is a critical need for research into how cities should adapt to become resilient to these impacts under uncertain futures. UWM challenges in the Ebbsfleet Garden City (UK) were investigated via a participatory process and potential sustainable solutions were explored using a System Dynamics Model (SDM). Collaborative development of the SDM by the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance developed stakeholders’ understanding of future UWM options and enabled a structured exploration of interdependencies within the current UWM system. Discussion by stakeholders resulted in a focus on potable water use and the development of the SDM to investigate how residential potable water consumption in the Ebbsfleet Garden City might be reduced through a range of interventions, e.g., socio-environmental and economic policy incentives. The SDM approach supports decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level, and facilitates exploration of the long-term consequences of alternative strategies, particularly those that are difficult to include in quantitative models. While an SDM can be developed by experts alone, building it collaboratively allows the process to benefit from local knowledge, resulting in a collective learning process and increased potential for adoption.
Parent projects:
Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future
Coverage (Temporal):
Modelling from 2019 until 2049
Coverage (Spatial):
Ebbsfleet Garden City, Kent, UK
Collection dates:
June 2019-March 2020
Subjects
Subjects (JACS)
Subjects (LC)
Divisions
University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Social Sciences::School of Geography
Data type
Excel spreadsheet detailing scenarios run through a System Dynamics Model to investigate sustainable urban water management in the Ebbsfleet Garden City
Grant Number
EP/P004180/1
Data collection method
Scenarios created by a System Dynamics Model, run in Vensim® Software (by Ventana Systems).
Resource languages
English
Publisher
The University of Nottingham
Date Issued
January 13, 2021
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