In recent decades, the urban water sector has experienced accelerating social complexity that derives from conflicting goals and beliefs, making the sustainability of the sector primarily a governance issue. However, existing governance models do not reflect the new reality. There is thus an urgent need to develop an urban water governance model reflecting this increasing complexity, to support sustainable governance. We integrate concepts from sociology, institutional theory and sustainability transitions to build a governance framework that includes interactions of social structures, and practices, shaped by different institutional logics and categorised at strategic, tactic, operational, and reflexive level.

在最近的几十年中，城市水务部门经历了由于目标和信念相互矛盾而导致的社会复杂性的加剧，这使得水务部门的可持续性成为主要的治理问题。但是，现有的治理模型不能反映新的现实。因此，迫切需要开发一种反映这种日益复杂性的城市水治理模型，以支持可持续治理。我们整合了社会学，制度理论和可持续性转变的概念，以构建一个治理框架，其中包括社会结构和实践的相互作用，这些相互作用由不同的制度逻辑形成，并分为战略，战术，运营和反思级别。