Asset management and sustainability: planning for the unknown future

摘要

Sustainability has become an important topic in urban water management and asset management, and decision makers have to balance environmental and social impacts, risks and investment costs. Manfred Kleidorfer, Christian Urich, Gunther Leonhardt, Robert Sitzenfrei and Wolfgang Rauch discuss the increasing demand for a holistic and integrated consideration, suggesting further linking-up of existing and forthcoming research projects in order to benefit from different approaches, solutions, and results.