Sustainable Urban Water Reuse: Planning Tools, Processes, and Applications

As water reuse technologies help to reduce the exploitation of freshwater resources, they also help alleviate water demand for drinking, manufacturing, sanitation, leisure purposes, and land use, such as agriculture. This book will examine ways to improve both the quality and quantity of water resources with particular emphasis on urban water reuse planning. It will highlight three separate planning tools: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), and Integrated Landscape Approaches (ILA). Each of these tools will be thoroughly examined, and the ideal application for each with regard to spatial, environmental, and landscape planning will be discussed.

Sandra Reinstädtler is a researcher in the Department of Environmental Planning at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg in Germany. She was also a visiting lecturer at Halmstad University, Sweden. She has published works in several international journals, conference proceedings, and books. Sandra is specialized in landscape planning, and has research interests in sustainable landscape, land use, water management, and climate change.