Sustainable Drainage Systems - Features and Designs

2014 ◽  
pp. 281-301
Author(s):  
Simon Watkins ◽  
Susanne M. Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
Drainage Systems ◽  
Sustainable Drainage Systems

scholarly journals Attitude and Actual Behaviour towards Water-Related Green Infrastructures and Sustainable Drainage Systems in Four North-Western Mediterranean Regions of Italy and France

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Maria Piacentini ◽  
Rudy Rossetto
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Drainage Systems ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Actual Behaviour ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
Sustainable Drainage Systems

Water-related green infrastructures (WrGIs), also known as blue infrastructures, and sustainable drainage systems (SuDSs) offer services such as stormwater runoff management, water purification, water storage at the intersection of the built environment, and natural systems by mimicking natural hydrological processes. While several papers document the reliability of such infrastructures in providing a variety of water-related services, few studies investigated the actual behaviour and the attitude of different stakeholders to understand the limitations and barriers in WrGIs/SuDSs implementation. In this paper, we investigated these issues by posing a set of questions to 71 qualified stakeholders in three Italian regions (Toscana, Liguria, and Sardegna) and one French region (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) in the northwestern Mediterranean. The results of the investigation largely show a lack of knowledge on these innovative solutions, although there is a general interest in their implementation both in the Italian and French regions. Barriers are also constituted by the scarcity of the demonstrators implemented, little knowledge on construction and maintenance costs, the absence of a proper regulatory framework, and of fiscal and financial incentives to support private citizens and companies. We finally suggest tools and soft measures that, in our opinion, may contribute to supporting the implementation of WrGIs/SuDSs, especially in view of adapting Mediterranean territories to the challenges posed by climate change. The results of our analyses may be reasonably up-scaled to the whole Mediterranean coastal region.

scholarly journals Towards urban resilience through Sustainable Drainage Systems: A multi-objective optimisation problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 111173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent McClymont ◽  
Davi Gasparini Fernandes Cunha ◽  
Chris Maidment ◽  
Biniam Ashagre ◽  
Anaí Floriano Vasconcelos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Drainage Systems ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Sustainable Drainage Systems

scholarly journals Sustainable drainage systems: helping people live with water

2016 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glyn Everett ◽  
Jessica Lamond ◽  
Anita T. Morzillo ◽  
Faith Ka Shun Chan ◽  
Annie Marissa Matsler
Keyword(s):  
Drainage Systems ◽  
Sustainable Drainage Systems
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