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  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,853 Views
17 Pages

7 March 2017

The effects of Low Impact Development (LID) practices on urban runoff and pollutants have proven to be positive in many studies. However, the effectiveness of LID practices can vary depending on different urban patterns. In the present study, the per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Soil and Water Management: Selected Papers from 2016 International SWAT Conference)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,499 Views
8 Pages

The present work aims at quantifying the benefit of Low Impact Development (LID) practices in reducing peak runoff and runoff volume, and at comparing LID practices to conventional stormwater solutions. The hydrologic-hydraulic model used was the Sto...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of EWaS3 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,884 Views
19 Pages

12 April 2017

Low-impact development (LID) practices as a new approach to urban stormwater management have demonstrated their positive effects through the reduction of surface runoff volumes and pollutant loadings in a substantial amount of research. The effective...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Soil and Water Management: Selected Papers from 2016 International SWAT Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,313 Views
23 Pages

26 February 2025

Urbanization necessitates Low Impact Development (LID) practices for sustainable development, but existing studies lack analysis about the comprehensive effect and optimal allocation of LID combination practices. To address this gap, this study condu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,988 Views
20 Pages

Cumulative Effects of Low Impact Development on Watershed Hydrology in a Mixed Land-Cover System

  • Nahal Hoghooghi,
  • Heather E. Golden,
  • Brian P. Bledsoe,
  • Bradley L. Barnhart and ,
  • Allen F. Brookes,
  • Kevin S. Djang,
  • Jonathan J. Halama,
  • Robert B. McKane,
  • Christopher T. Nietch and
  • Paul P. Pettus
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

27 July 2018

Low Impact Development (LID) is an alternative to conventional urban stormwater management practices, which aims at mitigating the impacts of urbanization on water quantity and quality. Plot and local scale studies provide evidence of LID effectivene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impacts of Landscape Change on Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,004 Views
16 Pages

30 July 2021

Storm events and soil erosion can adversely impact flood control, soil conservation, water quality, the recreation economy, and ecosystem biodiversity in urban systems. Urban Low Impact Development practices (LIDs) can manage stormwater runoff, contr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrologic and Water Quality Performance of Stormwater Best Management Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,758 Views
17 Pages

30 August 2020

We conducted a study on water management at the Boise River Watershed in a changing global environment potentially induced by climate variability and urbanization. Environmental ‘hotspots’ associated with water quality and quantity were f...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,045 Views
19 Pages

Assessing the Effectiveness and Cost Efficiency of Green Infrastructure Practices on Surface Runoff Reduction at an Urban Watershed in China

  • Fazhi Li,
  • Jingqiu Chen,
  • Bernard A. Engel,
  • Yaoze Liu and ,
  • Shizhong Wang and
  • Hua Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 December 2020

Studies on the assessment of green infrastructure (GI) practice implementation effect and cost efficiency on an urban watershed scale helps the GI practice selection and investment decisions for sponge city construction in China. However, few studies...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,851 Views
17 Pages

20 August 2020

Increases in imperviousness due to urbanization and industrialization increases stormwater runoff and nonpoint source pollution. Approaches reducing these hydrological impacts include low impact development (LID) methods. Various methods have been de...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,566 Views
16 Pages

Descriptive Analysis of the Performance of a Vegetated Swale through Long-Term Hydrological Monitoring: A Case Study from Coventry, UK

  • Luis A. Sañudo-Fontaneda,
  • Jorge Roces-García,
  • Stephen J. Coupe,
  • Esther Barrios-Crespo and ,
  • Carlos Rey-Mahía,
  • Felipe P. Álvarez-Rabanal and
  • Craig Lashford
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 October 2020

Vegetated swales are a popular sustainable drainage system (SuDS) used in a wide range of environments from urban areas and transport infrastructure, to rural environments, sub-urban and natural catchments. Despite the fact that vegetated swales, als...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management of Urban Water Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,228 Views
21 Pages

25 September 2023

Low-enthalpy geothermal systems are a promising source for renewable and clean energy for heating, cooling, and air conditioning residential buildings, contributing to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in line with the United Nations’ S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Research and Future Development for Sustainable Cities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
14,883 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2015

Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) poses new challenges for decision makers compared with traditional stormwater management, e.g., because WSUD offers a larger selection of measures and because many measures are multifunctional. These challenges hav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Drainage Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,199 Views
19 Pages

Detailed Quantification of the Reduction Effect of Roof Runoff by Low Impact Development Practices

  • Pu Zhang,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Xiaoshu Hou,
  • Guoyuan Wei and ,
  • Xiaoyue Zhang and
  • Zhenyao Shen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 March 2020

Low impact development (LID) has been widely applied to mitigate urban rainwater problems since the 1990s. However, the effect of LID practices has seldom been evaluated in detail. In this study, the effect of individual and combined LID practices on...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,983 Views
13 Pages

27 June 2018

Low-impact development (LID) is increasingly recognized as one of the most important stormwater source controls on a small scale. However, few studies have reported how LID practices affect the generation and control of urban diffuse pollution at the...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,673 Views
18 Pages

6 April 2018

For the past few decades, rapid urban development and climate change has caused many meteorological disasters (flooding, droughts, and heat waves) in South Korea. The current stormwater management system (gray infrastructure) is based on the pipe net...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,918 Views
29 Pages

Urbanized areas of the southwestern/western United States are among the fastest growing in the nation and face multiple water resource challenges. Low impact development (LID)/green infrastructure (GI) practices are increasingly popular technologies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,550 Views
15 Pages

Application of the SUSTAIN Model to a Watershed-Scale Case for Water Quality Management

  • Chi-Feng Chen,
  • Ming-Yang Sheng,
  • Chia-Ling Chang,
  • Shyh-Fang Kang and
  • Jen-Yang Lin

25 November 2014

Low impact development (LID) is a relatively new concept in land use management that aims to maintain hydrological conditions at a predevelopment level without deteriorating water quality during land development. The United States Environmental Prote...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
10,286 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2017

Low impact development (LID) is an important control measure against extreme rainfall events and is widely applied to relieve urban flood disasters. To investigate the effects of LID practices on flooding control under different rainfall scenarios, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,186 Views
16 Pages

2 February 2018

This study presented the conceptual framework of the water-management analysis module (WMAM) to derive effective physical specifications for the design and planning of low-impact development (LID) practices using the storm-water management model (SWM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,236 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of the Main Function of Low Impact Development Based on Rainfall Events

  • Meiyan Feng,
  • Kwansue Jung,
  • Fengping Li,
  • Hongyan Li and
  • Joo-Cheol Kim

7 August 2020

Low Impact Development (LID) is one of the sustainable approaches to urban stormwater management in areas with rapid urbanization. Although LID has been shown to have a positive effect in flood reduction, the hydrological balance regulation effect of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Low Impact Development Practices in Urban Watershed)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,348 Views
18 Pages

7 December 2019

Low impact development (LID) is a storm management philosophy. This paper aims at choosing the LID for urban storm management by comparing the efficiency in the south urban district in the Taiyuan Basin. Firstly, we set up a 1D–2D model to simu...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,797 Views
18 Pages

1 October 2017

This study integrates and develops methods, namely low impact development (LID) selection method and an LID spatial planning model, to enable decision-making to minimize pluvial flooding for a community. The objective is to minimize the flood risk un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
14,255 Views
31 Pages

21 January 2014

Stormwater runoff from urban areas is a significant source of water pollution in the United States. Many states are promoting low impact development (LID) practices, which provide a variety of direct and ancillary ecosystem services. We describe a m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecosystem Service Valuation, Its Measurement and Uses)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,771 Views
15 Pages

14 February 2020

Recently, an increase in impervious area induced by the process of urbanization has significantly affected the quantity and quality of urban surface runoff. Among the pollutants of the storm flow, total suspended solids (TSS) are an extremely importa...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,790 Views
22 Pages

24 May 2025

Mountainous cities are especially vulnerable to flooding and water quality degradation due to surrounding steep terrain, variable precipitation, and fragile ecosystems. Existing studies often rely on small-scale scenario simulations or computationall...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,823 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2017

This study developed a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) framework to prioritize sites and types of low impact development (LID) practices. This framework was systemized as a web-based system coupled with the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,390 Views
14 Pages

28 February 2017

Developers are increasingly looking for the best management practices to reduce the risk of floods in rapidly growing urban areas. Low impact development (LID) is regarded as one of the most suitable solutions for urban stormwater management and thus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,894 Views
18 Pages

Development and Application of a Low Impact Development (LID)-Based District Unit Planning Model

  • Cheol Hee Son,
  • Kyoung Hak Hyun,
  • Donghyun Kim,
  • Jong In Baek and
  • Yong Un Ban

19 January 2017

The purpose of this study was to develop a low impact development-based district unit planning (LID-DP) model and to verify the model by applying it to a test site. To develop the model, we identified various barriers to the urban planning process an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,673 Views
14 Pages

23 December 2024

Intensifying urbanization and climate change have highlighted the growing role of low-impact development (LID) practices in urban rainwater management systems. However, there is still room for improvement to optimally deploy LID practices, especially...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Drainage Systems and Stormwater Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,072 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2019

Sustainability and resilience are up-to-date considerations for urban developments in terms of flood mitigation. These considerations usually pose a new challenge to the urban planner because the achievement of a sustainable design through low impact...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Low Impact Development Practices in Urban Watershed)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,989 Views
25 Pages

29 September 2024

Urbanization is known to increase the volume of stormwater runoff and peak flow rates, which leads to changes in the natural flow regime and increases the likelihood of flooding. Low-impact development (LID) practices seek to reduce runoff volume and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urbanization, Climate Change and Flood Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
9,027 Views
23 Pages

A Quantity–Quality Model to Assess the Effects of Source Control Stormwater Management on Hydrology and Water Quality at the Catchment Scale

  • Abdul Razaq Rezaei,
  • Zubaidah Ismail,
  • Mohammad Hossein Niksokhan,
  • Muhammad Amin Dayarian and ,
  • Abu Hanipah Ramli and
  • Sharif Moniruzzaman Shirazi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 July 2019

The vast development of urban areas has resulted in the increase of stormwater peak runoff and volume. Water quality has also been adversely affected. The best management practices (BMPs) and low impact development (LID) techniques could be applied t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrologic Modelling for Water Resources and River Basin Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,468 Views
21 Pages

Environmental Regulation and Stormwater Management Strategies for an Urban River in Northwest China: A Sustainable Approach

  • Chen Lu,
  • Jiqiang Lyu,
  • Wang Yan,
  • Peng Guo and ,
  • Xianghang Fu,
  • Dengrui Mu,
  • Pingping Luo,
  • Yueyan Zhang and
  • Aidi Huo
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

14 April 2024

Low-impact developments (LIDs) have emerged as effective strategies for mitigating the adverse impacts of urbanization on river environments. This study aims to enhance river environment quality by examining the effects of LIDs and land use/cover cha...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,370 Views
13 Pages

Transdermal Delivery of Lidocaine-Loaded Elastic Nano-Liposomes with Microneedle Array Pretreatment

  • Yang Liu,
  • Maosen Cheng,
  • Junqi Zhao,
  • Xiaoying Zhang and ,
  • Zhen Huang,
  • Yuhui Zang,
  • Ying Ding,
  • Junfeng Zhang and
  • Zhi Ding
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

This study aimed to improve the transdermal delivery of lidocaine hydrochloride (LidH) using elastic nano-liposomes (ENLs) and microneedle (MN) array pretreatment. LidH-containing ENLs were prepared using soybean phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theranostic Drug Delivery: Prospects and Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,869 Views
12 Pages

17 June 2022

Aiming to solve the problem of the low efficiency and single objective of low impact development (LID) layout, the objectives of stormwater control, water quality purification, and economic cost are selected to present the performance of LID practice...

(This article belongs to the Section Soil and Water)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,471 Views
22 Pages

20 February 2026

Old urban areas are often prone to waterlogging and sewage contamination owing to their haphazard spatial arrangements, extensive impervious surfaces, and insufficient drainage infrastructure, thereby posing significant risks to both public safety an...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,936 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2022

Most old urban areas of China have a dense population, severely indurated underlying surface, and highly developed underground space. Those increase the waterlogging risk and obstruct the stormwater management in old urban areas. To propose an approp...

(This article belongs to the Topic Hydrological Modeling and Engineering: Managing Risk and Uncertainties)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,698 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2022

In the context of global climate change, many countries have taken corresponding measures to cope with the stormwater problems in urbanization. The Chinese government introduced the concept of Sponge City to improve the urban water ecological securit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Water Management in the Era of Climatic Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,329 Views
14 Pages

4 March 2023

Low-impact development (LID) practices have been recognized as a promising strategy to control urban stormwater runoff and non-point source pollution in urban ecosystems. However, many experimental and modeling efforts are required to tailor an effec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Runoff Control and Sponge City Construction II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,084 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2016

Low impact development (LID) best management practices (BMPs) collect, infiltrate, and treat stormwater runoff, and increase recharge to aquifers. Understanding the controls on reduction/oxidation (redox) conditions within LID BMPs is important for gr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Drainage and Urban Stormwater Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,681 Views
26 Pages

Toward Urban Micro-Renewal: Integrating “BMP-Plan” and “LID-Design” for Enhanced Stormwater Control—A Case Study

  • Zhenxing Huang,
  • Yiyuan Sun,
  • Yanting Fan,
  • Ruofei Guan and ,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Lianhai Zhao and
  • Bin Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 March 2025

This study addresses the growing inadequacies of traditional architectural concepts and techniques in stormwater management amid the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, particularly in densely built urban micro-spaces. To tackle these cha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Drainage Systems and Stormwater Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,512 Views
28 Pages

27 December 2024

Urbanization growth and climate change have increased the frequency and severity of floods in urban areas. One of the effective methods for reducing stormwater volume and managing urban floods is the low-impact development best management practice (L...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,428 Views
24 Pages

Linking Urban Floods to Citizen Science and Low Impact Development in Poorly Gauged Basins under Climate Changes for Dynamic Resilience Evaluation

  • Maria Clara Fava,
  • Marina Batalini de Macedo,
  • Ana Carolina Sarmento Buarque,
  • Antonio Mauro Saraiva and ,
  • Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem and
  • Eduardo Mario Mendiondo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 May 2022

Cities must develop actions that reduce flood risk in the face of extreme rainfall events. In this study, the dynamic resilience of the Gregorio catchment (São Carlos, Brazil) was assessed. The catchment lacks environmental monitoring and suff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience: Selected Papers from 8th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM 8))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
861 Views
26 Pages

27 February 2026

Conventional centralized drainage systems exacerbate urban flooding, pollution, and water stress. Low-impact development (LID) is a decentralized alternative; however, its multifunctional benefits, which go beyond the control of stormwater, are often...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,869 Views
24 Pages

A Framework for Integration of Smart and Sustainable Energy Systems in Urban Planning Processes of Low-Income Developing Countries: Afghanistan Case

  • Najib Rahman Sabory,
  • Tomonobu Senjyu,
  • Mir Sayed Shah Danish,
  • Mikaeel Ahmadi and ,
  • Hameedullah Zaheb and
  • Mustafa Halim
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 July 2021

Population growth and city expansion in developing countries require traditional urban planning practices to be transformed in order to tackle climate change and follow Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agendas. Almost every expert in the urban se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Energy Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,546 Views
15 Pages

A Systematic Bibliometric Review of Low Impact Development Research Articles

  • Jin You,
  • Xiang Chen,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Jianghai Chen and ,
  • Beibei Chai,
  • Aiqing Kang,
  • Xiaohui Lei and
  • Shuqian Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

29 August 2022

The concept of low impact development (LID) plays a crucial role in rainstorm management and non-point source pollution prevention and control. Sorting and summarizing related research through the knowledge map can objectively present the disciplinar...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Environmental Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,148 Views
19 Pages

8 January 2026

Climate change and rapid urbanization are increasingly disrupting urban water cycles by intensifying runoff and reducing infiltration, particularly in watersheds designated for future development. However, most existing studies have focused on fully...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,352 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Scale Sponge Capacity Trading and SLSQP for Stormwater Management Optimization

  • An-Kang Liu,
  • Qing Xu,
  • Wen-Jin Zhu,
  • Yang Zhang and ,
  • De-Long Huang,
  • Qing-Hai Xie,
  • Chun-Bo Jiang and
  • Hai-Ruo Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 May 2025

Low-impact development (LID) facilities serve as a fundamental approach in urban stormwater management. However, significant variations in land use among different plots lead to discrepancies in runoff reduction demands, frequently leading to either...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Stormwater Management and Green Infrastructure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Views
25 Pages

29 October 2026

Hydrologic effectiveness does not necessarily imply spatial implementability for low-impact development (LID) in space-constrained built-up areas. Existing LID planning and multi-objective optimization studies focus on runoff-control performance, con...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,686 Views
9 Pages

30 October 2025

We present a photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS)-based method using a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) for real-time detection of laser-induced damage (LID) in optical components. By measuring audible frequency surface vibrations, the method enables remot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser and Spectroscopy for Sensing Applications)

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