Journal article
Rethinking urban storm water management through resilience – The case for using green infrastructure in our warming world
S Hettiarachchi, C Wasko, A Sharma
Cities | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2022
Abstract
Urban flooding is one of the greatest threats to life and property, further exacerbated by the impacts of a warming climate. Balancing the increasing demand for liveable space with infrastructure for urban stormwater management presents a planning conundrum. Traditional thinking and design in urban stormwater is reaching limits in adequacy, or have foreboding implementation costs. We argue that a shift in design philosophy from resisting flooding to resilience can reframe this challenge towards viable solutions. We also propose that a simpler way of assessing urban flood resilience is needed to make the shift away from a single event design approach. To that end a Simple Urban Flood Resilien..
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Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Funding Acknowledgements
Conrad Wasko receives funding from the University of Melbourne McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme and the Australian Research Council (DP200101326, DE210100479) . The authors acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council. The authors acknowledge and thank the South Washington Watershed District in Minnesota (http s:// www.swwdmn.org/) for the use of the model and background data for this study. The rainfall data is available at the NOAA data center (https:// www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/) . The data available through Department of Natural Resources of the State of Minnesota can be accessed at available at https:// www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/wxsta/pan-evaporation.html.