A Mapping of Tools for Informing Water Sensitive Urban Design Planning Decisions—Questions, Aspects and  Context Sensitivity

Lerer, Sara Maria; Arnbjerg‐Nielsen, Karsten; Mikkelsen, Peter Steen

doi:10.3390/w7030993

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“…SUDSs imply changes to existing water governance schemes [35]. To achieve SUDSs effective planning, design, construction, and operation, a number of stakeholders need to be involved [24].…”

Section: Sudss' Implications For New Local Water Governance Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona

2020

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The persistence of urban floods and the inability of aging sewage infrastructure to deal with stormwater make sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDSs) one of the emerging paradigms in urban water management, in which stormwater is no longer a hazard but a resource. Although most of the global research has been done on the technical aspects of SUDSs, their social impacts are not always taken into consideration. The neighborhood scale that characterizes SUDSs creates a different governance system—compared to the old structures of flood risk management—characterized by decentralization practices and where communities gain a better position of negotiation and new responsibilities. The objective of this research is to recognize how the diverse stakeholders involved in SUDSs interact with each other and to look into the different levels of understanding SUDSs as a new alternative of stormwater infrastructure. In order to accomplish this task, the paper introduces the case of the neighborhood of Bon Pastor (Barcelona, Spain), which has gone through urban transformations over the past years, promoting the development of SUDSs in 2012. Empirical evidence was obtained from 10 semi-structured interviews with government, technicians, social organizations, and local community citizens as well as revision of existing policy documents and grey literature on SUDSs and historical documents on the development of the neighborhood. The results show how active the community was during the design process and afterward, as sustainability gradually became one of the main topics in the neighborhood to be incorporated in new developments. However, it also unveiled several issues related to maintenance and the ambiguity of the term SUDS for the different stakeholders involved.

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“…SUDSs imply changes to existing water governance schemes [35]. To achieve SUDSs effective planning, design, construction, and operation, a number of stakeholders need to be involved [24].…”

Section: Sudss' Implications For New Local Water Governance Schemesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona

2020

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“…This restriction is due to the complexity (in terms of required input data) of developing SWMs for large-scale regions. Thus, as recommended by other studies, such as [12,59,65,66], more investigations to address the indirect benefits of LID should be integrated into GIS-MCDA models for LID to identify the demand for LID, which could include future climate, land-use, and socioeconomic scenarios.…”

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“…Thus, as concluded by Kuller et al [47], although a set of GIS-MCDA tools and frameworks have been developed, none of them are sufficient and comprehensive. In addition, in another review by Lerer et al [59], they concluded that there is a lack of a comprehensive model that covers all physically-based aspects (referred to as "How Much models") and human aspects (referred to as "Where and Which" models).…”

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The Low-Impact Development Demand Index: A New Approach to Identifying Locations for LID

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The primary goal of low impact development (LID) is to capture urban stormwater runoff; however, multiple indirect benefits (environmental and socioeconomic benefits) also exist (e.g., improvements to human health and decreased air pollution). Identifying sites with the highest demand or need for LID ensures the maximization of all benefits. This is a spatial decision-making problem that has not been widely addressed in the literature and was the focus of this research. Previous research has focused on finding feasible sites for installing LID, whilst only considering insufficient criteria which represent the benefits of LID (either neglecting the hydrological and hydraulic benefits or indirect benefits). This research considered the hydrological and hydraulic, environmental, and socioeconomic benefits of LID to identify sites with the highest demand for LID. Specifically, a geospatial framework was proposed that uses publicly available data, hydrological-hydraulic principles, and a simple additive weighting (SAW) method within a hierarchical decision-making model. Three indices were developed to determine the LID demand: (1) hydrological-hydraulic index (HHI), (2) socioeconomic index (SEI), and (3) environmental index (ENI). The HHI was developed based on a heuristic model using hydrological-hydraulic principles and validated against the results of a physical model, the Hydrologic Engineering Center-Hydrologic Modeling System model (HEC-HMS). The other two indices were generated using the SAW hierarchical model and then incorporated into the HHI index to generate the LID demand index (LIDDI). The framework was applied to the City of Toronto, yielding results that are validated against historical flooding records.

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“…Relevant services that NBS stormwater management projects may deliver to society were identified from a literature search on stormwater services and NBS, which yielded the papers cited in the introduction as well as recent reviews on best practices (Bach et al 2014;Lerer et al 2015). The services were categorized under four broad domains:…”

Section: Identifying Relevant Servicesmentioning

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An SDG-based framework for assessing urban stormwater management systems

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Nature-Based Solutions for stormwater management on top of handling water should, ideally, deliver a multitude of other services to society; they are often seen as a lever for transforming cities in a more livable, green, resilient and sustainable direction, and these measures should be acknowledged as part of the services delivered. In this study we assess the services that Nature-Based Solutions for stormwater management deliver with reference to targets and indicators from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; we also develop local, project level indicators that inform and are informed by the more broad Sustainable Development Goals indicators. We demonstrate through Danish cases ranging from lot to city scale that the proposed framework can help inform decision-makers about the sustainability of Nature-Based Solutions for stormwater management. Despite difficulties in matching local indicators to SDG indicators, this first attempt at an assessment framework provides insight on which services of a project help to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals and, if used in the planning phase, could facilitate the design of projects that work focused and informed towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

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A Mapping of Tools for Informing Water Sensitive Urban Design Planning Decisions—Questions, Aspects and Context Sensitivity

Cited by 56 publications

References 51 publications

Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona

Community Involvement in the Implementation of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDSs): The Case of Bon Pastor, Barcelona

The Low-Impact Development Demand Index: A New Approach to Identifying Locations for LID

An SDG-based framework for assessing urban stormwater management systems

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