Delivering safely managed water supply and sanitation during rural-urban transition

这个博士将侧重于水和卫生服务的战略规划在农村城市过渡。这项研究将是跨学科的，涉及对决策的社会体制研究，并对城市周边地区水和卫生基础设施投资的最佳规划途径进行技术评估。该研究将侧重于南亚的少数案例研究城市。对现实世界决策的调查将借鉴制度和政治经济学方法，以揭示规划系统内外的决策如何塑造水和卫生系统内的发展轨迹。重点将放在考虑决策如何受到不同规模和时间范围的过程的影响，认识到有计划和无计划的城市增长之间的紧张关系。关于优化规划途径的研究将把适应性管理和经济规划的方法结合起来，以审查管理城乡过渡的可能途径。重点将是开发一种可用于评估路径的方法，这些路径可以根据不同的政策制定优先事项（例如财务效率、公平或循环经济）进行优化。总体目标是综合这些要素，提出一种可行的方法，供城市规划者、工程师和其他决策者用来制定适合当地的战略，在选定的城市和更广泛的范围内应对这些挑战。

This PhD will focus on the strategic planning of water and sanitation services during rural-urban transition. The study will be interdisciplinary and involve a socio-institutional study of decision-making with a technical assessment of optimal planning pathways for investment in water and sanitation infrastructure in urban peripheries. The research will focus on small number of case study cities in South Asia. The investigation into real-world decision making will draw on institutional and political economy approaches to unpack how decisions within and beyond the planning system shape the trajectories of development within water and sanitation systems. An emphasis will be placed on considering how decisions are affected by processes across different scales and timeframes, recognising the tension between planned and unplanned urban growth. The study into optimising planning pathways will bring together approaches from adaptive management and economic planning to examine possible pathways for managing rural-urban transition. The emphasis will be on developing an approach that can be used to assess pathways that can be optimised to different policy-making priorities such as financial efficiency, equity or the circular economy. The overall aim will be to synthesis these elements to propose a workable methodology that city planners, engineers and other decision-makers can use to generate locally appropriate strategies for addressing these challenges in the chosen cities and more broadly.