Determination of the preferred intervention point for rehabilitation of dense graded asphalt wearing courses on the sand sub-grades of the Swan Coastal Plain in consideration of the triple bottom line (ecological, economic and social impacts)

2014 ◽  
pp. 605-616
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Triple Bottom Line ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Ecological Economic ◽  
Swan Coastal Plain ◽  
Intervention Point ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

When urban stormwater meets high groundwater

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sally Thompson ◽  
Margaret Shanafield ◽  
Ana Manero ◽  
Greg Claydon
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Expert Panel ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Swan Coastal Plain

New land releases in the Perth Region on Western Australia’s Swan Coastal Plain are increasingly constrained by seasonally high groundwater (within 4m of the land surface). The measurement, modelling, and management of the effects of urbanisation in these high groundwater environments remains a challenging problem. To address this problem, the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRWSC) funded the “Knowledge-based water sensitive city solutions for groundwater impacted developments” Integrated Research Project, IRP5. In 2019, this project convened an Expert Panel to assess best-practice, and make recommendations to land development, engineering consulting, regulatory and advisory stakeholders. The Expert Panel explored strategies for groundwater risk assessment and provided technical guidance for measuring, modelling and predicting changes in groundwater as urbanisation progresses. It also obtained extensive input from stakeholders on the need to reduce the costs and risks of urban development in sites with high groundwater. In this paper, we argue that, by integrating technical best-practice groundwater assessments with design innovations and reforms to governance, urban development on high groundwater sites on the Swan Coastal Plain can minimise the current reliance on large volumes of sand fill. Although challenging, shifting to a low-fill development paradigm would represent a triple-bottom-line “win” for developers, homeowners and the environment.

scholarly journals Estimating the ecological, economic and social impacts of ocean acidification and warming on UK fisheries

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose A Fernandes ◽  
Eleni Papathanasopoulou ◽  
Caroline Hattam ◽  
Ana M Queirós ◽  
William W W L Cheung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ocean Acidification ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Ecological Economic ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

Framework

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Roe ◽  
Jeffery Round
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Multiplier Effects ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

This chapter discusses the channels of impact of an extractives activity on an economy by describing the different routes through which the direct economic and social impacts of these activities might be enhanced. These routes include those that often have the highest political profile, namely spending of government revenues. It also discusses other channels that arguably are far more important, such as the direct effects of corporate spend in local supply chains; the immediate ‘multiplier’ effects of this; the further multipliers that follow from significant income growth; the new downstream activities that may be built on the primary extractive activity; and the externalities that may accrue from the direct boost that a large extractive investment is likely to provide.

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