Chad Staddon's Outputs (64)
The Political Ecology of Shale Gas Exploitation in Ukraine (2019)
Book Chapter
Resilient Water Services and Systems (2019)
Book
Provides an over-arching framework for water and sanitation services and how they are coping with resilience, aging infrastructure and climate change
Urban water management challenges and achievements in Windhoek, Namibia (2019)
Journal Article
This paper gives an overview of the main challenges and achievements faced by Windhoek’s water management sector. The paper highlights pertinent issues arising from increased water demand, and also explores current and future water supply augmentatio... Read More about Urban water management challenges and achievements in Windhoek, Namibia.
Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions (2019)
Journal Article
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Green infrastructure (GI) has been identified as a promising approach to help cities adapt to climate change through the provision of multiple ecosyst... Read More about Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions.
Challenges of researching showering routines: From the individual to the socio-material (2019)
Journal Article
In the UK, water supplies are under pressure from climate, population and lifestyle change. Showering is the largest component of domestic water consumption. Young adults are high water-users at a transitional life-stage, when practices are dynamic,... Read More about Challenges of researching showering routines: From the individual to the socio-material.
Putting water security to work: addressing global challenges (2018)
Journal Article
Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article investigates the reasons householders do, and don’t, adopt domestic rainwater harvesting (DRWH). Using a mixed-methods research approach,... Read More about Why doesn’t every family practice rainwater harvesting? Factors that affect the decision to adopt rainwater harvesting as a household water security strategy in central Uganda.
Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures (2018)
Journal Article
Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms, including so-called “pure gifts,” balanced exchanges, and negative reciproc... Read More about Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures.
Challenges of researching showering routines – from the individual to the socio-material (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Water supplies are under threat from climate change, population growth and modern lifestyles. Excessive demand wastes money, energy and carbon. Evidence indicates that young adults are particularly high water-users. This population segment is at a tr... Read More about Challenges of researching showering routines – from the individual to the socio-material.
Contributions of green infrastructure to enhancing urban resilience (2018)
Journal Article
© 2018, The Author(s). After briefly reviewing key resilience engineering perspectives and summarising some green infrastructure (GI) tools, we present the contributions that GI can make to enhancing urban resilience and maintaining critical system f... Read More about Contributions of green infrastructure to enhancing urban resilience.
Resilience learning for water sector culture change (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper investigates barriers to creating a resilient water sector, focussing on the workforce. Firstly, it explores the definition of resilience and whether the workforce and customers are ready for a culture shift to create a more resilient sect... Read More about Resilience learning for water sector culture change.
Governing a shared hidden resource: A review of governance mechanisms for transboundary groundwater security (2017)
Journal Article
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Globally, groundwater is by far the largest store of liquid freshwater, making it a key component of a secure water supply. However, over the past few decades the amount of usable groundwater available around the world has rapidl... Read More about Governing a shared hidden resource: A review of governance mechanisms for transboundary groundwater security.
Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance (2017)
Journal Article
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Household water insecurity has serious implications for the health, livelihoods and wellbeing of people around the world. Existing methods to assess the state of household water insecurity focus largely on water quality, quantity... Read More about Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance.
Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach (2017)
Journal Article
We argue that a relational water security framework informed by the capabilities approach offers new ways to consider politics and cultures of water. Each dimension allows us to better contextualize water security beyond just an object (H2O) to be se... Read More about Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach.
Issues and challenges of reclaimed water usage: a case study of the dragon-shaped river in the Beijing Olympic Park (2017)
Journal Article
© 2017 International Water Resources Association. Increased use of reclaimed water could be one of the solutions to Beijing’s growing water shortage, particularly for non-potable (e.g. landscaping) purposes. The dragon-shaped river, a large artificia... Read More about Issues and challenges of reclaimed water usage: a case study of the dragon-shaped river in the Beijing Olympic Park.