Wang, X;
van Dam, KH;
Triantafyllidis, C;
Koppelaar, RHEM;
Shah, N;
(2017)
Water and energy systems in sustainable city development: A case of Sub-Saharan Africa.
In: Seto, K and Robinson, D and Virji, H and Kovacs, Z and Zhai, J and Sami, N and Pettit, C and Sridhar, KS, (eds.)
(Proceedings) Urban Transitions Conference.
(pp. pp. 948-957).
Elsevier Science BV
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Abstract
Current urban water and energy systems are expanding while increasing attention is paid to their social, economic and environmental impacts. As a research contribution that can support real-world decision making and transitions to sustainable cities and communities, we have built a model-based and data-driven platform combining comprehensive database, agent-based simulation and resource technology network optimization for system level water and energy planning. Several use cases are demonstrated based on the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) city-region in Ghana, as part of the Future Cities Africa (FCA) project. The outputs depict an overall resource landscape of the studied urban area, but also provide the energy, water, and other resource balance of supply and demand from both macro and micro perspectives, which is used to propose environmental friendly and cost effective sustainable city development strategies. This work is to become a core component of the resilience.io platform as an open-source integrated systematic tool gathering social, environmental and economic data to inform urban planning, investment and policy-making for city-regions globally.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Water and energy systems in sustainable city development: A case of Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Event: | Urban Transitions Conference |
| Location: | Shanghai, PEOPLES R CHINA |
| Dates: | September 2016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.140 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. |
| Keywords: | Urban systems, Water, Energy, Sustainable development, Modeling |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045435 |
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