The session focuses on the topics of 'too much water' and 'too little water' in urban areas and its potential for sustainable transitions in urban areas. The objective of the session is to bring together knowledge, experiences, good practices, tools and methods that can be used for identifying the transformative potential related to urban water and for exploring co-benefits of mitigation and adaptation in water related urban risk management across science, policy and practice. We welcome research contributions as well as case studies of how this has been or is being implemented in practice.

Potential topics include:

• Developing future stories and pathways of transformative water aware cities (qualitative and quantitative visions and scenarios)
• Integrated approaches to urban flood risk-adaptation for exploring understandings of leverage and transformative change
• Approaches for engaging stakeholders in the co-production of transformative adaptation
• Synergies between adaptation and mitigation in urban flood risk management
• Sectoral adaptation measures to water induced threads that are assessed in the complex urban system

Perspectives from various researchers and practitioners, from natural and social scientists, engineers, planners and innovators, working on the urban environment from different backgrounds and areas of expertise, are encouraged.