Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges

SH Pour, AK Abd Wahab, S Shahid… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The severity and frequency of short-duration, but damaging, urban area floods have
increased in recent years across the world. Alteration to the urban micro-climate due to …

A review on applications of urban flood models in flood mitigation strategies

W Qi, C Ma, H Xu, Z Chen, K Zhao, H Han - Natural Hazards, 2021 - Springer
As a result of climate change, urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to flooding, which can
cause devastating effects, both in terms of loss of life and property. Therefore, an accurate …

Modelling transitions in urban water systems

W Rauch, C Urich, PM Bach, BC Rogers, FJ De Haan… - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Long term planning of urban water infrastructure requires acknowledgement that transitions
in the water system are driven by changes in the urban environment, as well as societal …

Modeling the effects of introducing low impact development in a tropical city: A case study from Joinville, Brazil

MLR Goncalves, J Zischg, S Rau, M Sitzmann… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
In tropical countries like Brazil, fast and uncontrolled urbanization, together with high rainfall
intensities, makes flooding a frequent event. The implementation of decentralized …

Optimal adaptation pathway for sustainable low impact development planning under deep uncertainty of climate change: A greedy strategy

T Xu, K Li, BA Engel, H Jia, L Leng, Z Sun… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Robustness and cost effectiveness are major concerns for sustainable stormwater
management under deep uncertainty of climate change. Given that many traditional static …

Marginal-cost-based greedy strategy (MCGS): Fast and reliable optimization of low impact development (LID) layout

T Xu, BA Engel, X Shi, L Leng, H Jia, LY Shaw… - Science of The Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cost effectiveness is a major concern when implementing low impact development (LID)
practices for urban stormwater management (USWM). To optimize LID layout, an efficient …

Future trajectories of urban drainage systems: A simple exploratory modeling approach for assessing socio-technical transitions

J Zischg, B Rogers, A Gunn, W Rauch… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we present a novel approach to explore future trajectories in urban drainage
systems, emphasizing the adoption and implementation of sustainable 'nature …

On the sensitivity of geospatial low impact development locations to the centralized sewer network

J Zischg, P Zeisl, D Winkler, W Rauch… - Water science and …, 2018 - iwaponline.com
In the future, infrastructure systems will have to become smarter, more sustainable, and
more resilient requiring new methods of urban infrastructure design. In the field of urban …

Urban stormwater characterization, control and treatment

TL Moore, CM Rodak, F Ahmed… - Water environment …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A review of literature related to stormwater runoff characterization and its subsequent
management and treatment from 2017 was conducted. The 250 articles summarized herein …

Contemporary decision methods for agricultural, environmental, and resource management and policy

DR Johnson, NB Geldner - Annual Review of Resource …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Traditional top-down methods for resource management ask first what future conditions will
be, then identify the best action (s) to take in response to that prediction. Even when …