Overview
- Explores climate change and digital transformation as key strategic drivers
- Suggests the implementation of an asset management system
- Discusses recent weather anomalies in water-stressed countries?
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies (PSCRS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, climate change and digital transformation are explored as key strategic drivers for the contemporary practices of water utility companies. These drivers seem to be separate, but clearly, they are not.
The recent weather anomalies in water stressed countries are discussed, which have been breaking records and become an elevated risk to water assets. In parallel, the book examines a contextual proposition that the concept of the fourth industrial revolution applied to the water sector, Water 4.0, assists with the water supply decentralisation and sustainability, in particular climate resilience. It further suggests that the implementation of an Asset Management System with reference to the ISO 55001 standard is a useful tool in this process.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Robert Kijak has accumulated almost 30 years of professional experience in the environmental and civil engineering area in senior management, professional and project management positions. This includes the world’s largest multi-national engineering consultancies, water utility companies and environmental agencies in Australia and Poland.
He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) registered by Engineers Australia, Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) and a member of various asset management and maintenance societies worldwide. He holds globally recognized asset management and reliability certifications. He is currently chairing the Polish Maintenance Society's Digital Maintenance Modeling Commission with the focus on the industry’s digital transformation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Water Asset Management in Times of Climate Change and Digital Transformation
Authors: Robert Kijak
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79360-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79359-3Published: 03 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79360-9Published: 02 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-8124
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8132
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Management, Water, general, Geography, general