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  • Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA) to quantify water performance of urban design-Technology-Environment configurations.
    Water research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Mojtaba Moravej, Marguerite Renouf, Ka Leung Lam, Steven Kenway, Christian Urich
    Abstract:

    Abstract Historically, little consideration has been given to water performance of urban developments, such as “hydrological naturalness” or “local water self-sufficiency”. This has led to problems such as increased stormwater runoff, flooding, and lack of local contributions to urban water security. Architectural design, water servicing technologies and Environmental conditions are each known to influence water performance. However, most existing models have overlooked the integration of these factors. In this work, we asked ‘how the water performance of urban developments at site-scale can be quantified, with joint consideration of architectural design, water servicing technologies, and Environmental context (i.e. climate and soil)’. Answering this question led to the development of a new method and tool called Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA). It uses a daily urban water mass balance to simulate design-Technology-Environment configurations. Key features include: (i) a three-dimensional boundary focussed on the “entity” of development (ii) a comprehensive water balance accounting all urban water flows, (iii) methods that include key variables capturing the interactions of natural, built-Environment and socio-technological systems on water performance. SUWMBA's capabilities were demonstrated through an evaluation of a residential infill development case study with alternative design-Technology-Environment configurations, combining three dwelling designs, seven water technologies and three Environmental contexts. The evaluation showed how a configuration can be identified that strikes a balance between the conflicting objectives of achieving the desired dwelling densities whilst simultaneously improving water performance. For two climate zones, the optimal configuration increases the total number of residents by 300% while reducing the imported water per capita and stormwater discharge by 45% and 15%, respectively. We infer that SUWMBA could have strong potential to contribute to performance-based urban design and planning by enabling the water performance of dwelling designs to be quantified, and by facilitating the setting of locally-specific water performance objectives and targets.

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Uri Zoller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Science, Technology, Environment, Society (stes) Literacy for Sustainability: What Should it Take in Chem/Science Education?
    Educación Química, 2013
    Co-Authors: Uri Zoller
    Abstract:

    Ensuring sustainability requires a paradigm shift in conceptualization, thinking, research and Science education, particularly concerning the science-Technology-Environment-society (stes) interfaces. Consequently, stes literacy requires the development of students’ capabilities via higher-order cognitive skills (hocs)-promoting teaching, assessment and learning strategies. Striving for sustainability and the consequent paradigms shift, from unlimited growth to sustainable development, makes the corresponding paradigms shift in science, Environmental and Technology engineering education, from algorithmic teaching to hocs learning, to become unavoidable. The identified paradigms shift reflect the ever-increasing social pressure towards more accountable, socially- and Environmentally-responsible sustainable action. Concomitantly, this pressure constitutes the driving force for stes education for sustainability. This requires hocs for responsibly dealing with multi-dimensional, socio-economical-technological-Environmental systems. Our research findings and educational practice suggest, that, although the road to stes literacy for sustainability is rocky, it is educationally feasible and, therefore, attainable.

  • the hocs paradigm shift from disciplinary knowledge locs to interdisciplinary evaluative system thinking hocs what should it take in science Technology Environment society oriented courses curricula and assessment
    Water Science and Technology, 2004
    Co-Authors: Uri Zoller, Roland W Scholz
    Abstract:

    Given the current world state of affairs, striving for sustainability and the consequent paradigm shift: growth-to-sustainable development, correction-to-prevention and options selection-to-options generation: the corresponding paradigm shift in science-Technology-Environment-society (STES) education is unavoidable. Accordingly, the essence of the current reform in STES education, worldwide, is a purposed effort to develop students' higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) capability; i.e., question-asking, critical system thinking, decision making and problem solving, at the expense of the “delivery” of lower-order cognitive skills (LOCS)-oriented knowledge. This means a paradigm shift from the contemporary prevalent LOCS algorithmic teaching to HOCS evaluative learning and HOCS-promoting courses, curricula, teaching strategies and assessment methodologies, leading, hopefully to evaluative thinking and transfer. Following the formulation of selected relevant axioms, major paradigm shift in STES research and education for sustainability have been identified. The consequent shift, in the STES context, from disciplinary to inter- and transdisciplinary learning, in science Technology and Environmental engineering education is discussed, followed by selected examples of successfully implemented HOCS-promoting courses, and assessment methodologies. It is argued, that transferable “HOCS learning” for sustainability can and should be done.

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Mojtaba Moravej - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA) to quantify water performance of urban design-Technology-Environment configurations.
    Water research, 2020
    Co-Authors: Mojtaba Moravej, Marguerite Renouf, Ka Leung Lam, Steven Kenway, Christian Urich
    Abstract:

    Abstract Historically, little consideration has been given to water performance of urban developments, such as “hydrological naturalness” or “local water self-sufficiency”. This has led to problems such as increased stormwater runoff, flooding, and lack of local contributions to urban water security. Architectural design, water servicing technologies and Environmental conditions are each known to influence water performance. However, most existing models have overlooked the integration of these factors. In this work, we asked ‘how the water performance of urban developments at site-scale can be quantified, with joint consideration of architectural design, water servicing technologies, and Environmental context (i.e. climate and soil)’. Answering this question led to the development of a new method and tool called Site-scale Urban Water Mass Balance Assessment (SUWMBA). It uses a daily urban water mass balance to simulate design-Technology-Environment configurations. Key features include: (i) a three-dimensional boundary focussed on the “entity” of development (ii) a comprehensive water balance accounting all urban water flows, (iii) methods that include key variables capturing the interactions of natural, built-Environment and socio-technological systems on water performance. SUWMBA's capabilities were demonstrated through an evaluation of a residential infill development case study with alternative design-Technology-Environment configurations, combining three dwelling designs, seven water technologies and three Environmental contexts. The evaluation showed how a configuration can be identified that strikes a balance between the conflicting objectives of achieving the desired dwelling densities whilst simultaneously improving water performance. For two climate zones, the optimal configuration increases the total number of residents by 300% while reducing the imported water per capita and stormwater discharge by 45% and 15%, respectively. We infer that SUWMBA could have strong potential to contribute to performance-based urban design and planning by enabling the water performance of dwelling designs to be quantified, and by facilitating the setting of locally-specific water performance objectives and targets.