Indices and models of surface water quality assessment: Review and perspectives

T Yan, SL Shen, A Zhou - Environmental Pollution, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Many technologies have been designed to monitor, evaluate, and improve surface water
quality, as high-quality water is essential for human activities including agriculture, livestock …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-based solutions as enablers of circularity in water systems: A review on assessment methodologies, tools and indicators

CE Nika, L Gusmaroli, M Ghafourian, N Atanasova… - Water research, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Water has been pushed into a linear model, which is increasingly acknowledged of causing
cumulative emissions of pollutants, waste stocks, and impacting on the irreversible …

[HTML][HTML] Water Sensitive Cities Index: A diagnostic tool to assess water sensitivity and guide management actions

BC Rogers, G Dunn, K Hammer, W Novalia… - Water research, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Cities are wrestling with the practical challenges of transitioning urban water services to
become water sensitive; capable of enhancing liveability, sustainability, resilience and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing circularity of multi-sectoral systems under the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) nexus

CE Nika, V Vasilaki, D Renfrew, M Danishvar… - Water Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Multi-Sectoral Water Circularity Assessment (MSWCA) is a methodological
framework developed for circularity assessment of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems …

A multi-regional input-output analysis of direct and virtual urban water flows to reduce city water footprints in Australia

KMN Islam, SJ Kenway, MA Renouf… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This study focused on understanding what sector-region combinations could be targeted to
reduce total city water footprints? We used multi-regional input-output analysis of direct and …

Measuring urban water circularity: Development and implementation of a Water Circularity Indicator

NS Kakwani, PP Kalbar - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Urban Water Management (UWM) involves balancing the inflows and outflows of
water such that water entering and leaving the system boundary reduces with time. Several …

Water resource synergy management in response to climate change in China: From the perspective of urban metabolism

H Lv, L Yang, J Zhou, X Zhang, W Wu, Y Li… - Resources, conservation …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Climate change exacerbates the vulnerability of water resources, and water-energy-carbon
nexus makes water management more complicated. This paper attempts to explore the …

Optimal control of sewage treatment process using a dynamic multi-objective particle swarm optimization based on crowding distance

H Dai, J Zhao, Z Wang, C Chen, X Liu, Z Guo… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
A variety of multi-objective optimization algorithms has been extensively investigated in the
past decades to tackle the optimal decision of sewage treatment process. However …

The development of IFN-SPA: A new risk assessment method of urban water quality and its application in Shanghai

HM Lyu, SL Shen, A Zhou - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This study proposes a new set-pair analysis (SPA) method by enhancing existing SPA
methods using interval-based fuzzy numbers (IFN), referred to as the IFN-SPA method. The …

[HTML][HTML] Water Eco-Nexus Cycle System (WaterEcoNet) as a key solution for water shortage and water environment problems in urban areas

Z Chen, G Wu, Y Wu, Q Wu, Q Shi, HH Ngo… - Water Cycle, 2020‏ - Elsevier
With the rapid socio-economic development, urban cities are confronted with issues of
accelerating water scarcity, water contamination and water environment degradation …