Characterising water sensitive cities through inquiry-based learning systems

IF 2.4 Q2 WATER RESOURCES
Madeline R. Shelton, J. Bos, Kevin B. Collins, R. Ison, B. Iaquinto
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Transitioning to water sensitive cities (WSCs) in Australia is necessary for creating urban areas that are resilient to natural disasters, water shortages and climate change. In this paper we report research to enable systemic-transformations praxis. We brought together water practitioners from various sectors for a number of systemic inquiry events across five Australian cities to understand what was required to begin a transition to WSCs. Using an approach influenced by systemic innovation, we designed an inquiry-based learning system. Our learning system design made scientific knowledge available for interpretation, internalisation and contestation, by practitioners in different contexts. The workshops led to identification of characteristics of WSCs; relevant issues and opportunities; and commitments and constraints to action constituting a baseline data set for future evaluation of progress. Transitioning to WSCs requires leadership, a supportive institutional-sectoral environment, practical implementation of technologies in social contexts and increased collaboration involving knowledge co-production across disciplines and sectors. Systemic inquiry methods lend themselves to revealing the socially constructed nature of urban water as hybrids of the technical, natural and social. Despite some limitations, our approach enhanced institutional innovation and investment and offers insights into future research and planning for enabling systemic-transformations praxis in multiple sectors and contexts.
通过基于探究的学习系统描述水资源敏感型城市
在澳大利亚,向水敏感城市(WSCs)过渡对于创建能够抵御自然灾害、水资源短缺和气候变化的城市地区是必要的。在本文中,我们报告了实现系统转换实践的研究。我们汇集了来自各个部门的水从业者,在澳大利亚五个城市进行了一系列系统的调查活动,以了解开始向WSCs过渡所需的条件。采用受系统创新影响的方法,我们设计了一个基于探究的学习系统。我们的学习系统设计使科学知识可供不同背景下的实践者解释、内化和讨论。讲习班确定了WSCs的特征;相关问题和机遇;对行动的承诺和限制构成今后评价进展的基线数据集。向WSCs过渡需要领导力、支持性的机构-部门环境、在社会背景下实际实施技术,以及加强涉及跨学科和部门知识联合生产的合作。系统的调查方法有助于揭示城市水作为技术、自然和社会的混合体的社会建构性质。尽管存在一些局限性,但我们的方法增强了制度创新和投资,并为未来的研究和规划提供了见解,以便在多个部门和背景下实现系统转型实践。
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CiteScore
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自引率
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期刊介绍: The Australasian Journal of Water Resources ( AJWR) is a multi-disciplinary regional journal dedicated to scholarship, professional practice and discussion on water resources planning, management and policy. Its primary geographic focus is on Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Papers from outside this region will also be welcomed if they contribute to an understanding of water resources issues in the region. Such contributions could be due to innovations applicable to the Australasian water community, or where clear linkages between studies in other parts of the world are linked to important issues or water planning, management, development and policy challenges in Australasia. These could include papers on global issues where Australasian impacts are clearly identified.
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