The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a workshop Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters workshop held in 2006. The workshop assembled experts from engineering, planning, economics, law, hydrology, aquatic ecology, geom- phology, and other disciplines to present research ?ndings and identify key new ideas on the urban water environment. At a lunch discussion near the end of the workshop, several of us came to the recognition that despite having considerable expertise in a narrow discipline, none of us had a vision of the urban water en- ronment as a whole. We were, as in the parable,...
The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a workshop Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters workshop held in 2006. The workshop assembled expert...