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Urban Stormwater Management by Green Infrastructure

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 16351

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Rezaul Chowdhury

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Guest Editor
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia
Interests: hydroclimatology; urban drainage; green infrastructure

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Green infrastructures are nature-based solutions that offer better management options for urban stormwater by integrating urban runoff, pollution control, landscaping, biodiversity, and livability in cities. Components of green infrastructures are well covered in water sensitive urban design (WSUD), low-impact development (LID), and sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDs). Their primary roles are to reduce stormwater quantity and to improve surface water quality while simultaneously providing other environmental, economic, and social benefits. This Special Issue focuses on the roles of green infrastructures in managing urban stormwater. Broad scopes include modeling, performance, and selection of green infrastructures in urban settings.

Dr. Rezaul Chowdhury
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • stormwater
  • green infrastructures
  • water sensitive urban design
  • low impact development
  • sustainable urban drainage systems
  • pollution
  • vegetation
  • biodiversity
  • livability

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26 pages, 3870 KiB  
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Green Roof Design with Engineered Extensive Substrates and Native Species to Evaluate Stormwater Runoff and Plant Establishment in a Neotropical Mountain Climate
by Carlos Vicente Rey, Natalia Franco, Gwendolyn Peyre and Juan Pablo Rodríguez
Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6534; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166534 - 13 Aug 2020
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Green roofs are increasingly being implemented in cities for their multiple environmental benefits. Their optimal design requires an appropriate selection of components, including substrates and plant species, to ensure local sustainability in the long term. The present study seeks to assess the runoff [...] Read more.
Green roofs are increasingly being implemented in cities for their multiple environmental benefits. Their optimal design requires an appropriate selection of components, including substrates and plant species, to ensure local sustainability in the long term. The present study seeks to assess the runoff quality and quantity of extensive green roofs located in Bogotá (Colombia). The assessment consists of testing different substrates, designed using locally available constituents and a selection of native species. The best performing substrate mixtures, in terms of runoff volume reduction and plant establishment, were jointly evaluated with three native species (i.e., Paepalanthus alpinus, Achryrocline bogotensis and Echeveria ballsii). On average, engineered substrates presented significantly lower concentrations in several water quality parameters (electric conductivity, total phosphorus, phosphates, Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen, nitrates, nitrites, color, biological oxygen demand and chemical oxygen demand) than the commercial extensive substrate used as control. The species Paepalanthus alpinus and Echeveria ballsii showed significant establishment and were considered potentially suitable species for green roofs in Bogotá. The obtained results, therefore, provide recommendations for green roof design in neotropical mountain climate conditions. Full article
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Multi-Criteria Decision Method for Sustainable Watercourse Management in Urban Areas
by Priscila Celebrini de Oliveira Campos, Tainá da Silva Rocha Paz, Letícia Lenz, Yangzi Qiu, Camila Nascimento Alves, Ana Paula Roem Simoni, José Carlos Cesar Amorim, Gilson Brito Alves Lima, Maysa Pontes Rangel and Igor Paz
Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6493; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166493 - 12 Aug 2020
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The rapid urban growth followed by disordered occupation has been generating significant impacts on cities, bringing losses of an economic and social nature that directly interfere with the well-being of the population. In this work, a proposal for local urban infrastructure problems associated [...] Read more.
The rapid urban growth followed by disordered occupation has been generating significant impacts on cities, bringing losses of an economic and social nature that directly interfere with the well-being of the population. In this work, a proposal for local urban infrastructure problems associated with watercourse management is presented, comparing Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) techniques and Low-Impact Development (LID) concepts with alternative traditional interventions. The study addresses sustainable alternatives to cope with the urbanization of the Cehab’s open channel, which is an important urban watercourse tributary of the Muriaé River, at the municipality of Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro—Brazil. The multi-criteria decision-making method called Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was applied here. The results highlighted the better performance of sustainable techniques when compared to the traditional ones, with an overall advantage of the geogrids and geocells for this case study. The obtained TOPSIS coefficients-C for these techniques were higher (0.59488, for Reach 1; and 0.68656, for Reach 2) than those for the others. This research, therefore, presented an important urban watercourse management methodology that can be further applied to guide sustainable investments and help the decision-making associated with the development of territories. Full article
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Spatial Compatibility of Implementing Nature-Based Solutions for Reducing Urban Heat Islands and Stormwater Pollution
by Lena Simperler, Thomas Ertl and Andreas Matzinger
Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 5967; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155967 - 24 Jul 2020
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Cities worldwide are facing several challenges connected to urbanization and climate change. Several cities have identified the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) as an option to mitigate several challenges at once. However, can two different aims be reached with NBS in the same [...] Read more.
Cities worldwide are facing several challenges connected to urbanization and climate change. Several cities have identified the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) as an option to mitigate several challenges at once. However, can two different aims be reached with NBS in the same location? This question has not yet been addressed. This paper discusses the spatial compatibility of NBS implementation strategies to tackle (1) urban heat island (UHI) effects and (2) water pollution at the same location. The evaluation is based on a spatial analysis of Berlin. We found a positive correlation of high UHI and median high stormwater pollution loads for zinc, total suspended solids, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Terbutryn. Out of more than 14,000 building/street sections analyzed, 2270 showed spatial matching of high UHI and high stormwater pollution loads. In the majority of building/street sections, stormwater pollution was high for three out of the four parameters. We conclude that the compatibility of NBS implementation for both challenges depends both on the implementation strategies for NBS and on the specific NBS measures. Our spatial analysis can be used for further planning processes for NBS implementation. Full article
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Identification and Pre-Assessment of Former Watercourses to Support Urban Stormwater Management
by Lena Simperler, Martina Glanzer, Thomas Ertl and Florian Kretschmer
Sustainability 2020, 12(14), 5660; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12145660 - 14 Jul 2020
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The application of blue and green infrastructure in urban stormwater management has attracted increasing interest in recent years. At the same time, one can observe a heavy modification of urban watercourses by land reclamation measures aiming at canalizing, straightening, and draining existing water [...] Read more.
The application of blue and green infrastructure in urban stormwater management has attracted increasing interest in recent years. At the same time, one can observe a heavy modification of urban watercourses by land reclamation measures aiming at canalizing, straightening, and draining existing water systems at many places around the world. In the context of sustainable urban development, the question arises, whether the reactivation of former watercourses could be an additional option to support urban stormwater management. This article introduces a process to identify former watercourses and to pre-assess their suitability to support urban stormwater management considering different hydraulic functionalities and stormwater related criteria. To prove the practicability of the approach, it was applied in a case study. Our investigations revealed that the reactivation of former watercourses can provide additional opportunities towards more nature-based and sustainable stormwater management in the urban fabric. Full article
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Decision-Support System for LID Footprint Planning and Urban Runoff Mitigation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas
by Javier Guerrero, Taufiqul Alam, Ahmed Mahmoud, Kim D. Jones and Andrew Ernest
Sustainability 2020, 12(8), 3152; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083152 - 14 Apr 2020
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To address regional flooding in the United States, federal and state agencies are adopting strict drainage policies in any large-scale commercial development within the watershed boundary. The conventional approach of implementing a wet detention pond (WP) reduces the land cover and causes operation [...] Read more.
To address regional flooding in the United States, federal and state agencies are adopting strict drainage policies in any large-scale commercial development within the watershed boundary. The conventional approach of implementing a wet detention pond (WP) reduces the land cover and causes operation and maintenance challenges eventually. The present study developed a decision-support system (DSS) in the Lower Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas for optimal selection of Best Management Practices (BMPs) by substituting a portion of the WP footprint with three regionally promising low-impact development practices, namely, porous concrete pavement (PCP), bioretention (BR), and bioswale (BS). Source Load Assessment and Management Model for Windows (WinSLAMM) was used as the foundation for the DSS database and algorithm development. This tool suggested that the implementation of bioswale alone can considerably reduce the footprint and construction cost. Less than 0.95 ha of installation of BR and BS can mitigate 79–91% of runoff from a maximum of 5 ha of commercial development. A combination of BR, BS, and WP was found to reduce runoff significantly (~100%), which suggests that the successful adoption of DSS might support better planning of the urban stormwater management in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). Full article
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