Building resilient urban water systems: emerging opportunities for solving long-lasting challenges
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this perspective paper, we analyse the challenges and opportunities of hydrology in the urban context and propose solutions for innovation and sustainability by leveraging advancements across technology, society, and governance for resilient cities. Technological breakthroughs, such as smart sensors and artificial intelligence, can enhance the efficiency and resilience of real-time water monitoring and predictions. Public awareness and community engagement can foster behavioural change and empower residents to actively participate in urban water governance through initiatives like rainwater harvesting and participatory planning. Additionally, big data and remote sensing provide cities with the insights needed for adaptive, data-driven decision-making. Together, these developments represent a paradigm shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive, integrated solutions that prioritise equity, environmental health, and urban resilience. Finally, the paper highlights the differences in progress between the Global North and the Global South and proposes research priorities for the future of urban hydrology.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".