67 research outputs found
Risk assessment models and uncertainty estimation of groundwater contamination from point sources
Making Waves:Promoting municipal water reuse without a prevailing scarcity driver
The wealth of water reuse research in scarcity and/or rapid urbanisation contexts, has underpinned significant change in many relatively water scarce contexts. Less progress has been achieved in water rich contexts; a fact illustrated by the lack of change on the ground. The Climate Emergency demands that all municipalities urgently contribute to more efficient resource management of water.Consequently, to advance municipal scale reuse projects in locations where scarcity is not forcing the issue, for example, Scotland, there is a need to predicate water reuse on different drivers, specifically climate change and the circular economy. Moreover, greater contextual sensitivity needs to be appliedwhen exploring barriers to reuse to more critically exploit opportunities, for example avenues to reform complex regulatory frameworks, different contingencies around trust, and different potential degrees of the yuck factor. To achieve this, new initiatives need to be urgently undertaken to considerthe barriers to reuse that will not be swept aside by the imperative of scarcity. The notion of a yum factor, whereby positive sentiments are nurtured to combat instinctive repugnance, coined as yuck by the bioethicist Arthur Caplan, is advanced as a strategic objective to promote more rapid expansion ofmunicipal scale reuse
Making Waves:Promoting municipal water reuse without a prevailing scarcity driver
The wealth of water reuse research in scarcity and/or rapid urbanisation contexts, has underpinned significant change in many relatively water scarce contexts. Less progress has been achieved in water rich contexts; a fact illustrated by the lack of change on the ground. The Climate Emergency demands that all municipalities urgently contribute to more efficient resource management of water.Consequently, to advance municipal scale reuse projects in locations where scarcity is not forcing the issue, for example, Scotland, there is a need to predicate water reuse on different drivers, specifically climate change and the circular economy. Moreover, greater contextual sensitivity needs to be appliedwhen exploring barriers to reuse to more critically exploit opportunities, for example avenues to reform complex regulatory frameworks, different contingencies around trust, and different potential degrees of the yuck factor. To achieve this, new initiatives need to be urgently undertaken to considerthe barriers to reuse that will not be swept aside by the imperative of scarcity. The notion of a yum factor, whereby positive sentiments are nurtured to combat instinctive repugnance, coined as yuck by the bioethicist Arthur Caplan, is advanced as a strategic objective to promote more rapid expansion ofmunicipal scale reuse
A Bayesian geostatistical approach for evaluating the uncertainty of contaminant mass discharges from point sources
Can Bayesian Belief Networks help tackling conceptual model uncertainties in contaminated site risk assessment?
Metode til vurdering af konceptuel forståelse og parameter usikkerhed ved beregning af forurenings flux fra forurenede lokaliteter (v2 niveau)
Mass discharge estimation from contaminated sites: Multi-model solutions for assessment of conceptual uncertainty
A Bayesian belief network approach for assessing uncertainty in conceptual site models at contaminated sites
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