Sustainable Stormwater Management: Infiltration vs. Surface Treatment Strategies

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley E. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Surface Treatment ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management

scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urban Planning: Ways Forward towards Institutional Change and Collaborative Action

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bohman ◽  
Erik Glaas ◽  
Martin Karlson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Urban Stormwater Management ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
New Strategies

Climate change impacts, ageing infrastructure and the increasing imperviousness of cities all raise enormous challenges to and call for new ways of planning for sustainable urban stormwater management. Especially, closer collaboration among a diverse set of actors involved has been pointed to as critical to enable the development of holistic and flexible approaches. However, the shift towards inclusive forms of planning has been slow, and characterized by technical and institutional lock-ins. Against this background, this study scrutinizes the challenges and developments perceived as central for improving stormwater planning, and analyzes how formal and informal institutional change could contribute to enhancing sustainability in this sector. Building on an analysis of data from workshops, interviews and a survey with Swedish planners and water managers, we suggest new strategies for integrating stormwater concerns into planning processes, overcoming silo structures, fostering cocreation cultures, and securing the continuation and implementation of stormwater management through various planning stages.

scholarly journals Sustainable stormwater management and design

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Janusz Niemczynowicz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Water ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Urban Runoff ◽  
New Development ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
Water Volumes ◽  
Large Water ◽  
Detailed Application ◽  
Stormwater System

Stormwater system are necessary to convey urban runoff from a city in order to avoid floods in urban areas. Large water volumes of urban runoff bring important changes to natural water flow regime not only in a city but also downstream bringing pollution to entire river basin .The paper gives the rationale and principles of new development within urban storrnwater management. Two detailed application examples of new storrnwater management are presented in the paper.

scholarly journals Sustainable Stormwater Management in Existing Settlements—Municipal Strategies and Current Governance Trends in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Geyler ◽  
Norman Bedtke ◽  
Erik Gawel
Keyword(s):  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
Current Governance

While a policy of more decentralized stormwater management is increasingly being pursued in areas containing new housing developments, the question arises as to how stormwater management is handled in existing settlements, where restructuring the drainage system is a much more complex affair and often requires the active involvement of property owners. Recognizing that the multidimensional objectives of stormwater management in settlements call for a range of local strategies, this article examines the interaction and strategic contribution of two key municipal institutions for regulating stormwater management, namely, compulsory connection and usage and stormwater charges, in order to examine how they meet these objectives when property owners are involved. The following questions are addressed: How do these two key institutions link the varied objectives of stormwater management with practical options for decentralization? Which institutional designs are capable of integrating property owners into a municipal stormwater strategy in a coherent manner? What is current local government practice? This article begins by analyzing the interactions between different objectives of stormwater management, the interplay of the two key institutions, and options for stormwater management on private properties. On this basis, we then present an empirical study of current practice in 44 medium to large cities in Germany. This shows that while local governments devise very different—and often inconsistent—institutional designs, decentralization is quite commonly pursued in existing settlements.

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