Published on: 17/10/2011
As sustainability concerns regarding water management in cities continue to increase, the challenge facing cities is for them to do more with less. SWITCH, an EU-funded programme, was a five year experiment focused on some of the key sustainability challenges in urban water management. In a number of cities around the globe, it set out to test what was needed to transition into more sustainable urban water management through a combination of demand-led research, demonstration activities, multistakeholder learning and associated training and capacity building.
The book- SWITCH in the City: putting urban water management to the test brings together experiences from 12 cities involved in the SWITCH project from four continents (Accra, Alexandria, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Birmingham, Bogotá, Cali, Hamburg, Lima, Lodz, Tel Aviv and Zaragoza) with a set of guidelines focused on promoting stakeholder engagement in such processes.
If you are interested in undertaking demand-led research, promoting multi-stakeholder engagement, and scaling up research impacts, not only in urban water management but also in other areas where we find such complex problems, then download or order your copy now through IRC- International Water and Sanitation Centre.
