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Stephen Cook is an academic researcher from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rainwater harvesting & Integrated urban water management. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 38 publications.
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Towards sustainable urban water management: A critical reassessment
TL;DR: A critical assessment of the discourse that surrounds emerging approaches to urban water management and infrastructure provision is provided to highlight the limitations and strengths in the current lines of argument and point towards unaddressed complexities in the transformational agendas advocated by SUWM proponents.
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A review on microbial contaminants in stormwater runoff and outfalls: Potential health risks and mitigation strategies.
TL;DR: This review paper summarizes occurrence and concentrations of fecal indicators, pathogens, and MST marker genes in urban stormwater and discusses approaches for assessing and mitigating health risks associated with stormwater, including a summary of existing quantitative microbial risk assessment models for potable and non-potable reuse of stormwater.
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Water Sensitive Urban Design: An Investigation of Current Systems, Implementation Drivers, Community Perceptions and Potential to Supplement Urban Water Services
Ashok Sharma,David Pezzaniti,Baden Myers,Stephen Cook,Grace Tjandraatmadja,Priya Chacko,Sattar Chavoshi,David Kemp,Rosemary Leonard,Barbara A Koth,Andrea Walton +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated impediments for mainstream uptake of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) and potential of WSUD to achieve water conservation through the application of alternative resources, and in flood management.
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A review of Agent-Based Modelling of technology diffusion with special reference to residential energy efficiency
TL;DR: In this paper, an agent-based modeling (ABM) approach is used to describe the diffusion of technologies in a population, but certain limitations have been identified in the context of energy efficient residential technologies and how an alternative computational and empirical paradigm, ABM, can help resolve some of these limitations.
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Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?
TL;DR: A review of water conservation efforts with a particular focus on the Australian context can be found in this article, where the authors take stock of the current understanding of the water conservation, in particular: what influences people's decision to conserve water, what influences whether people persist with water conservation behavior and what contributes to awareness and familiarity of water conserving behaviors.
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