Assessment of stormwater management options in urban contexts using Multiple Attribute Decision-Making

Gogate, Nivedita G.; Kalbar, Pradip P.; Raval, Pratap M.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.11.079

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“…The latter is particularly common when green (GI) and grey (conventional) alternatives are compared. Also, performance-focused comparisons tend to quantify only energyrelated performance (cooling effect of different roofs; Garrison, Horowitz, & Lunghino, 2012;Santamouris, 2014) or only water related benefits (stormwater control; Gogate, Kalbar, & Raval, 2017).…”

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Multi‐functionality of nature‐based and other urban sustainability solutions: New York City study

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In an increasingly urban world, developing sustainable cities is crucial for global sustainability. Urban nature‐based solutions (NBS), such as green infrastructure, are often promoted for their potential to provide several urban services. These include stormwater mitigation, improving energy efficiency of buildings, and carbon emissions mitigation, but few studies have compared the multifunctionality of NBS to conventional urban solutions providing similar services. Fewer yet have acknowledged the indirect resource (specifically climate, land, energy, water [CLEW] nexus) impacts that these solutions may have. This paper analyzes these aspects, employing a simple CLEW nexus accounting framework, and attempts a consistent comparison across different resource systems. The comparison includes direct and indirect impacts of a set of stylized—and diverse—solutions, each with different primary objectives: green roofs, representing a multifunctional urban NBS; permeable pavements targeting mitigation of stormwater flows; window retrofits targeting energy efficiency; and rooftop PV installations targeting CO2 emissions mitigation. The results highlight both the direct and total (CLEW nexus) impacts of green roofs on stormwater retention, energy use, and CO2 emissions. However, also for the studied conventional solutions with primarily a single direct function, CLEW nexus impacts spread across all measured dimensions (energy, water, and CO2) to varying degrees. Although the numerical results are indicative and uncertainty needs to be further assessed, we suggest that the development of this type of multifunctional, multisystem assessment can assist urban sustainability planning, with comprehensive and consistent comparison of diverse (NBS and conventional) solutions.

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Multi‐functionality of nature‐based and other urban sustainability solutions: New York City study

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“…Learning from the natural evolution law of river systems, economic development regulations and the way of social participation, in reference to various types of national urban water system planning norms as well as river landscape evaluation indicators and river health evaluation indicators established by various experts and scholars, the final order parameters index system is presented in Table 2. [30,31], is used for quantifying experts' opinions on alternative preference with regard to various qualitative indicators and for indicator weight elicitation [32]. Review papers on multi-criteria decision making for solid waste management [33] and for green supplier evaluation [34] confirm the popularity of the method.…”

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Synergetic Development Assessment of Urban River System Landscapes

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This paper presents Synergetic Development Assessment (SDA) as a methodology to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social performance of an urban river system landscape from the perspective of sustainability. SDA is based on synergetics and its "order parameters" theory, proposed as a science to study the self-organization of complex systems. A case study of river system landscapes in China was carried out by, first, simplifying the composite system into three subsystems: environmental, economic, and social; then, going on to construct a hierarchical structure to explore the order parameters as the evaluation index. The Analytic Hierarchy Process was used to get the weight of the evaluation index to complete the assessment index system. At the same time, a Sequential Synergy Degree Model was built to accomplish the SDA. We find that from 2005 to 2015, the order degree of the environmental subsystem developed slowly, with fluctuations, and that river pattern is the key factor. Meanwhile, the order degree of the economic subsystem fluctuated widely, which significantly depended on the changing value of water resources, and the order degree of social subsystem improved continuously, with social culture lagging far behind. As a whole, the synergy degree of the composite system developed orderly at a corresponding low level, which was in low synergy from 2005 to 2009 and then in general synergy up to 2015.

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“…Four additional studies presented tools to expand the decision making framework to include the broader suite of environmental, social and economic benefits provided by LID. These tools employed various methods, including analytical hierarch process with expert opinion for multiple attribute decision-making (Gogate et al, 2017), spatially-based models with stakeholder priority weighting (Meerow and Newell, 2017), and participatory frameworks (Dagenais et al, 2017;Schifman et al, 2017). In addition to expanding LID decisions to include a variety of ecosystem services, application of these decision making frameworks indicated a disconnect between where LID approaches should be situated for maximum benefit versus where they are actually located (Meerow and Newell, 2017), but that these tools can facilitate interaction and identification of a common goal among various watershed stakeholders (Schifman et al, 2017).…”

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Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control and Treatment

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Water Environment Research

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A review of literature related to stormwater runoff characterization and its subsequent management and treatment from 2017 was conducted. The 250 articles summarized herein are organized along three central themes: (1) stormwater quality and quantity characteristics, (2) site-scale stormwater management practices, with a focus on low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI), and (3) watershed-scale performance of stormwater controls. Within each section, common research themes and future work are highlighted.

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Assessment of stormwater management options in urban contexts using Multiple Attribute Decision-Making

Cited by 96 publications

References 91 publications

Multi‐functionality of nature‐based and other urban sustainability solutions: New York City study

Multi‐functionality of nature‐based and other urban sustainability solutions: New York City study

Synergetic Development Assessment of Urban River System Landscapes

Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control and Treatment

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