Energy
Waste
Water and Sewage
Transport
Green Blue
Buildings & land use
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Tool summary

Name of the tool
SWARD Project

Description of the tool
SWARD projects develops 3 aspects :
• decision mapping to determine how decisions are currently made and how sustainability issues are included
• production of a guidebook as a tool to help water service providers apply the concepts of sustainability. The guidebook contains a framework that includes a set of decision support processes that can be used to explicitly incorporate sustainability consideration into decision-making procedures through the use of sustainability criteria, indicators and processes
• demonstration of the guidebook use via a wide range examples

Specific topic
Urban drainage

Sector/s of use

Waste

Energy

Water

Transport

Green/Blue

Building & Land use

0

0

M

0

0

0

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component

Building

Neighbourhood

City

Region

0

0

1

1

0