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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Water management; Multi-criteria decision-making; Stormwater modelling; Flood risk assessment; GIS; Environmental analysis; Urban drainage; Statistical testing; Sustainability indicators; Slope stability; Air quality; UHI effect
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Interests: sustainability; water management; stormwater engineering; teaching innovation; green infrastructure; sustainable drainage systems; civil engineering; biological and environmental engineering; sustainable construction; water analysis; environmental impact assessment; urbanism; land-use planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban surfaces reflect the economic, environmental, and social idiosyncrasy of cities, playing a crucial role in the sustainable development of modern civilizations. Pavements and roofs cover about 30%–45% and 20%–25% of these urban surfaces, respectively. Therefore, their management provides an opportunity to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since they can play a crucial role in ensuring the sustainability of urban areas against two of the greatest challenges in the coming years: urbanization and climate change.
The suitable management of pavements and roofs and other urban surfaces through the so-called urban ecosystem services (UES) is a branch of investigation that needs to be studied more in depth, since it can contribute to palliating these threats and providing multiple benefits in terms of sustainability according to the four categories into which they are divided: provisioning services (food, water, medicinal plants, and other resources), regulating services (focused on ensuring air and soil quality, preventing floods, and controlling diseases), habitat supporting services (safeguard of biodiversity), and cultural services (psychological and cognitive benefits such as recreation and aesthetics).
This Special Issue aims to produce knowledge about how urban surfaces, especially in the form of permeable pavements and green roofs for being the most complete and multifaceted types of urban landscape systems, can provide diverse UES and thus increase the sustainability of cities. Contributions concerning other nature-based Solutions (NBS) such as bioretention areas, filter drains, infiltration trenches or vegetated swales are also welcome. Therefore, investigations related to the multiple roles that can be played by these systems, including but not limited to stormwater management, materials and design, carbon capture, urban planning and regeneration, thermoregulation, biodiversity and agricultural productivity, thermal and acoustic control, aesthetics and recreation, and life cycle assessment or structural properties, are within the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Daniel Jato-EspinoDr. Luis Angel Sañudo-Fontaneda
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- bioretention areas
- climate change
- ecosystem services
- evapotranspiration
- flood management
- filter drains
- green infrastructure
- green roofs
- infiltration trenches
- life cycle assessment
- low impact development
- nature-based solutions
- permeable pavements
- recreational spaces
- stakeholder perception
- stormwater quality
- structural and mechanical properties
- sustainable materials
- urban agriculture
- urban heat island effect
- urban planning and regeneration
- vegetated swales