U3.01 (formerly U2.1) Kiparsky 2014 ReNUWIt Annual Meeting Poster

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Abstract: The interaction between institutional change and technological change poses important constraints on transitions of urban water systems to a state that can meet future needs. Research on urban water and other technology-dependent systems provides insights that are valuable to technology researchers interested in assuring that their efforts will have an impact. In the context of research on institutional change, innovation is the development, application, diffusion and utilization of new knowledge and technology. This definition is intentionally inclusive: technological innovation will play a key role in reinvention of urban water systems, but is only part of what is necessary. Innovation usually depends on context, such that major changes to infrastructure include not only the technological inventions that drive greater efficiencies and physical transformations of water treatment and delivery systems, but also the political, cultural, social, and economic factors that hinder and enable such changes. On the basis of past and present changes in urban water systems, institutional innovation will be of similar importance to technological innovation in urban water reinvention. To solve current urban water infrastructure challenges, technology-focused researchers need to recognize the intertwined nature of technologies and institutions and the social systems that control change.

Type of resource	other
Date created	May 2014

Subject	Re-inventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure
Subject	ReNUWIt
Subject	U3.01
Subject	Urban Systems Integration and Institutions
Subject	Technology diffusion pathways
Subject	California
Subject	climate change
Subject	decision making
Subject	energy
Subject	governance
Subject	infrastructure
Subject	innovation
Subject	innovation system
Subject	management
Subject	perspective
Subject	policy
Subject	resources
Subject	risk
Subject	services
Subject	sustainability
Subject	systems
Subject	technology
Subject	urban water
Subject	wastewater

Related Publication	Kiparsky, M., Thompson, B. H., Binz, C., Sedlak, D. L., Tummers, L., & Truffer, B. (2016). Barriers to Innovation in Urban Wastewater Utilities: Attitudes of Managers in California. Environmental Management, 57(6), 1204-1216. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-016-0685-3
Related Publication	Kiparsky, M., Sedlak, D. L., Thompson, B. H., & Truffer, B. (2013). The Innovation Deficit in Urban Water: The Need for an Integrated Perspective on Institutions, Organizations, and Technology. Environmental Engineering Science, 30(8), 395-408. http://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2012.0427
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Preferred Citation: Kiparsky, M., Sedlak, D. L., Simmons, A., Thompson, B. H., & Truffer, B. (2014). U3.01 (formerly U2.1) Kiparsky 2014 ReNUWIt Annual Meeting Poster. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/sw860sw0891

Re-inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt)

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