The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling
Water systems in the US are experiencing increasing challenges because of poor governance, unsustainable fiscal policies, an aging workforce, new environmental regulations, and concerns over environmental justice. These challenges will only increase if the specific constraints and barriers to system...
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| author | Lindell Ormsbee Diana Byrne Nicholas Magliocca |
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| description | Water systems in the US are experiencing increasing challenges because of poor governance, unsustainable fiscal policies, an aging workforce, new environmental regulations, and concerns over environmental justice. These challenges will only increase if the specific constraints and barriers to system viability are not first identified and then translated into new policies and best management practices to ensure system sustainability, reliability, resilience, and equity of services. This paper proposes a methodology to accomplish this objective that integrates agent-based models, water distribution models, and sustainability performance models within a larger system dynamics framework. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-50b60addedc14d5fb3262a7a280e59fa2025-08-20T03:43:33ZengMDPI AGEngineering Proceedings2673-45912024-08-016911210.3390/engproc2024069012The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution ModellingLindell Ormsbee0Diana Byrne1Nicholas Magliocca2Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USADepartment of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USADepartment of Geography and the Environment, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USAWater systems in the US are experiencing increasing challenges because of poor governance, unsustainable fiscal policies, an aging workforce, new environmental regulations, and concerns over environmental justice. These challenges will only increase if the specific constraints and barriers to system viability are not first identified and then translated into new policies and best management practices to ensure system sustainability, reliability, resilience, and equity of services. This paper proposes a methodology to accomplish this objective that integrates agent-based models, water distribution models, and sustainability performance models within a larger system dynamics framework.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/69/1/12ABMsnetwork modelssustainabilitysystem dynamics |
| spellingShingle | Lindell Ormsbee Diana Byrne Nicholas Magliocca The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling ABMs network models sustainability system dynamics |
| title | The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling |
| title_full | The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling |
| title_fullStr | The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling |
| title_short | The Need for Integrating Governance, Operations, and Social Dynamics into Water Supply/Distribution Modelling |
| title_sort | need for integrating governance operations and social dynamics into water supply distribution modelling |
| topic | ABMs network models sustainability system dynamics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/69/1/12 |
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