Nature-based solutions for urban stormwater management: an overview

Urban Stormwater Management: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Management of stormwater brings considerable economic, social and environmental benefits to the community in various ways. Controlling stormwater quantity is primarily important to prevent urban flooding and water stagnation. Also improving stormwater quality is timely important issue for sustainable management of urban stormwater. Urban development accompanied by increasing in impervious surfa...

An Overview of Stormwater in Michigan: Impacts and Solutions

Role of Resilience in Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management

Typically, best management practices (BMPs) are implemented to help sustainable stormwater management in urban areas. Over recent decades the selection of urban stormwater management measures for a site has been a challenge among urban planners where thecriterion based on flood volume no longer suffices for selecting urban drainage solutions. Therefore there is a need to consider a set of holis...

Simulation of Stormwater Quality in an Urban Catchment Using the Stormwater Management Model (swmm)

of master's thesis Author Saara Lehtinen Title of thesis Simulation of stormwater quality in an urban catchment using the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) Department Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professorship Water Resources Engineering Code of professorship Yhd-12 Thesis supervisor Professor Harri Koivusalo Thesis advisor M.Sc. (Tech.) Gerald Krebs Date 10.11.2014 Number...

Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...