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Natural Environment
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Value and price: conuting ecosystems as urban water infrastructure
04/08/2010
Sustainable management of urban water relies on our ability to integrate knowledge from ecological, social and economic disciplines, and our capacity to examine the functioning of the system as a whole. Three functions of water charges (infrastructure investment, consumption and resource awareness) were investigated using a survey of households in two New Zealand urban communities. Auckland and Christchurch represent opposing endpoints on a continuum relating to charging policies, access to information for consumers, water availability and resource “identification, ownership and pride”.