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Characterizing Competing Viewpoints in Stormwater Governance: An Urban Honolulu Case Study
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 Stormwater management is a fundamental public service in urban areas that has wide-ranging implications on water supply, public safety, and ecosystem health.
Aida D. Arik
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The hydrological functioning of urban trees can reduce stormwater runoff, mitigate the risk of flood, and improve water quality in developed areas. Tree canopies intercept rainfall and return water to the atmosphere through transpiration, while roots ...
Sarah Ponte +3 more
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INTEGRATED STORMWATER ANALYSIS MODEL TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE URBAN GREEN SPACE DESIGN [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Urban Green Space (UGS) has been broadly treated as a valuable and limited resource to handle the challenges brought by high-density urban environment. Green stormwater management has been prompt around the world.
J. Jia, S. Zlatanova, K. Zhang, H. Liu
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Developing a Framework for Smart Stormwater Management in Tallinn, Estonia
Engineering ProceedingsThe recently revised European Urban Wastewater Directive 91/271/EEC has prompted a shift in urban stormwater management across Europe. The directive emphasizes the importance of improving stormwater monitoring to prevent urban water quality degradation ...
Kristjan Suits +5 more
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Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) – what it is and where do we stand today?
Engineering and Applied Science Research, 2017 Stormwater management is a topic of growing complexity. It includes all measures in mitigating stormwater runoff. Various studies have identified stormwater as a major carrier of various pollutants and other contaminants.
Uvini Srishantha, Upaka Rathnayake
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Marginalized Monitoring: Adaptively Managing Urban Stormwater [PDF]
UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 2013 Adaptive management is a theory that encourages environmental managers to engage in a continual learning process and adapt their management choices based on learning about new scientific developments. One such area of scientific development relevant to water management is bacterial genetics, which now allows scientists to identify when human sewage has
Scanlan, Melissa K, Tai, Stephanie
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Stormwater Management: An Integrated Approach to Support Healthy, Livable, and Ecological Cities
Urban ScienceThe practice of stormwater management has evolved from a singular focus on drainage to a multifaceted approach to support the integrated urban development of healthy, livable, ecological, and water sensitive cities from neighborhood to metropolitan ...
Neil S. Grigg
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Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental ManagementOver the past two decades there has been a growing worldwide concern about the ability of urban infrastructure systems to withstand the increasing impacts of urban population and climate change.
G. J. Mhina, P. R. Mapinduzi
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Contributions of Urban Political Ecology to sustainable drainage transitions
Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 2022 This article aims to demonstrate how critical urban geography and Urban Political Ecology (UPE) can provide analytical tools to fully incorporate the social dimension in Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), overcoming ageographical and ...
Andrea Nóblega-Carriquiry
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Land, 2020 Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI), a sustainable engineering design approach for managing urban stormwater runoff, has long been recommended as an alternative to conventional conveyance-based stormwater management strategies to mitigate the adverse ...
Sami Towsif Khan +2 more
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