Permeable Pavement Systems: Advances and Challenges in Stormwater Management

Dear Colleagues,

The rise in precipitation combined with cities’ disorderly urbanization process that leads to an increase in impervious surface areas is a challenge that researchers have to face. Moreover, drainage elements and stormwater disposal, in general, are not efficient when it comes to the rainfall intensity that each region requires. Based on these, it is necessary to provide infrastructure changes to minimize the excess of stormwater accumulated on surfaces. On the other hand, in many parts of the world, people suffer due to water scarcity, and harvesting stormwater from porous or permeable pavement systems emerges as an alternative water resource. Climate change, increasing water scarcity, population growth, and disorderly urbanization represent some of the problems to be solved. Research that involves water supply systems can result in many benefits to society and to the Earth. Stormwater and runoff collected from a porous or permeable pavement shows a high potential for use for non-potable water purposes in buildings.

The main focus of this Special Issue is porous, permeable or pervious pavement systems and their filtering capacity and harvesting alternatives. We call for contributions that investigate the main following issues: (i) how runoff or stormwater can be collected from permeable (porous or pervious) pavements; (ii) how the use of permeable pavements can contribute to changes in infrastructure in order to reduce floods; (iii) measurement of pollutants in stormwater harvested from permeable pavements; (iv) use of stormwater harvested from permeable pavements for non-potable water uses in buildings; (v) standards for water collected from permeable pavements; (vi) modeling of permeable pavements relative to clogging and end of life; and (vii) the life cycle of permeable pavements.

Prof. Dr. Liseane Padilha Thives
Prof. Dr. Enedir Ghisi
Guest Editors

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