Quantifying Sustainability and Resilience Benefits of Green Stormwater Infrastructure Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 603
Special Issue Editor
Interests: urban hydrology; green infrastructure; stormwater; environmental sustainability and resilience; multicriteria decision analysis; risk analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) systems, such as green roofs, bioretention/bioinfiltration systems, and constructed wetlands, comprise nature-based features that represent the development of green technologies by incorporating the physical, biological, and chemical aspects of an ecosystem into decentralized engineered structures. In concert with conventional (gray) stormwater infrastructure, GSI systems can provide sustainability and resilience benefits through runoff volume reduction and pollutant removal/sequestration, ecosystem services, and social/public health functions as well as adaptation to climate change. Owing to advancements in GSI research and practice over the past twenty-five years, GSI is becoming a common technique for managing stormwater runoff and preparing communities to increase resilience against changes in climate patterns, rainfall, and land use/land cover. However, further quantification of GSI sustainability and resilience benefits is needed to support large-scale implementation of GSI systems.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the latest research and advances in planning, modeling, design, monitoring, assessment, operation, and maintenance of GSI systems that will enable quantification of GSI sustainability and resilience benefits. Ecosystem, socio-economic, and public health aspects of GSI are of interest if they are quantitatively investigated. The submission of works that span disciplines to look at larger pictures of GSI sustainability and resilience (e.g., GSI in the context of the water–energy–food nexus) is encouraged. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include but are not limited to the following:
- Sustainability and resilience indicators for GSI systems;
- GSI and climate change;
- GSI and water–energy–food–environment nexus;
- GSI in coastal areas;
- GSI, social equity, and environmental justice;
- Watershed-scale effects of GSI;
- Life-cycle assessments of GSI;
- GSI research needs and prioritization;
- GSI performance (water quantity, water quality, and ecosystem services);
- Process-based and data-driven modeling of GSI at different scales.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ali Ebrahimian
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- green infrastructure
- nature-based solutions
- stormwater
- runoff
- sustainability
- resilience
- climate change
- urban hydrology
- flood
- water quality
- ecosystem services
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