Modelo de simulación de la sostenibilidad del ciclo urbano del agua, aplicable a pequeños municipios de regiones en vías de desarrollo
[EN] The thesis is aimed at developing a qualified information tool (a dynamic simulation model), that serves as support for local decisions in planning the water and sanitation sector, aimed at sustainability, especially in urban centers of developing regions. The sustainability of the urban water...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/63460 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/63460 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Sostenibilidad Ciclo Urbano del Agua Modelación Simulación Dinámica Teoría general de Sistemas Asentamientos en Regiones en vías de desarrollo. INGENIERIA HIDRAULICA |
| Sumario: | [EN] The thesis is aimed at developing a qualified information tool (a dynamic simulation model), that serves as support for local decisions in planning the water and sanitation sector, aimed at sustainability, especially in urban centers of developing regions. The sustainability of the urban water cycle (WUC) is understood both at the scale of the whole human settlement and at the scale of differentiated urban sectors, responding to objectives of preserving the quality and quantity of local water resource, firstly, and second, for a service based on availability, access and maintenance of water supply and sanitation. It is raised not only as a social, economic and environmentally desirable objective, but an imperative of the time, under the challenge that societies have all put in place policies adaptive to climate change and its direct effects on the hydrological cycle. Within the international arena, the developing regions are those that offer increased vulnerability to such effects. Dividing the urban water cycle in two sections (Sanitation and Water Supply), and the second in four subsystems (Water access, Demographic, Income and Water consumption), the model is presented in a degree of definition increased since the first installment to last Subsystem. For this, the methodological approach of the General Systems Theory is used, with its application to the development of dynamic simulation models. This methodological approach is appropriate to address the complexity of the factors that define the sustainability of WUC. The model is conceived as a way to "capture" the heterogeneity of meticulously raised situations, were most are the result of the dynamics of land use in such regions in developing, marked by the accomplished fact of "first live in" that has modeling much of urbanization and their relationship with the environment, especially in Latin America, sub-continent where is located the reference case to its design. Finally, this paper seeks to add a contribution to the construction of a common language between all stakeholders related to water, both residents, as technical managers and politicians in the water and sanitation services, local government, scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs industry, producers, for whom the sustainability is a way to preserve the most vulnerable social and environmental sectors, constitutes an shared achievement to a decent life for the people and environment that still support life on Earth. |
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