Nature-Based Solutions to Improve the Permeability of the Urban Landscape and Water Quality in Cities

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers focused on nature-based solutions to improve the permeability of the urban landscape and water quality in cities. Urban sprawl leads to the sealing of urban soils, leading to both less groundwater recharge and more discharge of contaminated runoff and stormwaters to the environment. Infiltration basins and green roofs and trenches are increasingly being used in urban areas as nature-based solutions for mitigating such impacts and for water cycle regulation, flood risk protection, and climate change adaptation. This Special Issue is open to advanced research on nature-based solutions, such as water retention ponds and green and permeable surfaces in cities, with the purpose of assessing the infiltration and filtration functions of urban soils in stormwater management. Practical, as well as process-based, research is welcome in this Special Issue, including short technical notes and review papers.

The specific topics we would like to address in this Special Issue include:

• improving groundwater recharge and water quality in urban areas;
• developing solutions aimed at reducing the sealing of urban soils;
• improving water infiltration measurements and related modeling approaches in urban soils;
• developing and testing innovative methods and tools for characterizing complex heterogeneous soils in urban areas; and
• developing innovative strategies for investigating pollutant filtration.

Prof. Dr. Giorgio Baiamonte
Dr. Simone Di Prima
Dr. Laurent Lassabatere
Prof. Dr. Massimo Iovino
Guest Editors

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