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Joachim Schulze, Simon Gehrmann, Avikal Somvanshi and Annette Rudolph-Cleff
The summer of 2022 was one of the hottest and driest summers that Germany experienced in the 21st century. Water levels in rivers sank dramatically with many dams and reservoirs running dry; as a result, fields could not be irrigated sufficiently, and ev...
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Pritipadmaja, Rahul Dev Garg and Ashok K. Sharma
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a significant concern in today?s rapidly urbanising cities, with exacerbating heatwaves? impact, urban livelihood, and environmental well-being. This study aims to assess the cooling effect of blue-green spaces in Bh...
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Meenakshi Arora, Ishitha Chopra, Minh Hoang Nguyen, Priyaga Fernando, Matthew J. Burns and Timothy D. Fletcher
Permeable pavement (PP) systems have been shown to provide onsite stormwater management as well as contaminant removal benefits. Therefore, significant research has taken place in recent years to analyse the performance of these structures in terms of th...
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Ulrik Ekman
This article addresses the issue of developing designs of resilient hydrological infrastructures for cities facing sea level rise in the Anthropocene. It undertakes short case studies of differently scaled cities, three in the Global North and three in t...
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Giles Thomson, Peter Newman, Dominique Hes, Jo Bennett, Mark Taylor and Ron Johnstone
The benefits of ecosystem services to cities are well documented; for example, water-sensitive urban design to mitigate stormwater flows and purify run-off, the cooling benefits provided by tree shade, and psychological benefits of urban greening. Cities...
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Hadi Zamanifard, Edward A. Morgan and Wade L. Hadwen
Modern stormwater treatment assets are a form of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) features that aim to reduce the volumes of sediment, nutrients and gross pollutants discharged into receiving waterways. Local governments and developers in urban areas ...
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Gustavo Bermejo-Martín and Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy
To advance to water sensitive cities (WSC) it will be necessary to achieve the commitment of the citizens, involving them in this transition. Citizen participation is considered essential, and one of the possible approaches to achieve this is through Des...
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Changmei Liang, Xiang Zhang, Jun Xia, Jing Xu and Dunxian She
Low-impact development (LID) has been widely used at both site-specific and local scales to try and mitigate the impact of urban stormwater runoff caused by increasing impervious urban areas. Recently, the concept of a ?sponge city? was proposed by the C...
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Elarbi Badidi, Zineb Mahrez and Essaid Sabir
Demographic growth in urban areas means that modern cities face challenges in ensuring a steady supply of water and electricity, smart transport, livable space, better health services, and citizens? safety. Advances in sensing, communication, and digital...
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Tasnim Nasrin, Ashok K. Sharma and Nitin Muttil
Short duration intense rainfall causes an increase in rainfall derived infiltration and inflow (RDII) into aging sewer networks, which leads to Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs). This study presents a generalised framework for assessing and mitigating the ...
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