Managing stormwater for urban sustainability: an evaluation of local comprehensive plans in the Chesapeake Bay watershed region

Kim, Hyun Woo; Li, Ming-Han

doi:10.1080/09640568.2016.1251399

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“…The dependent variable, plan quality score, was measured using the content analysis method that has been commonly employed in previous plan evaluation research [41,42,48,[64][65][66]. Five plan components, "factual basis", "goals and objectives", "inter-organizational coordination and cooperation", "policies, tools and strategies", and "implementation", were used to conceptualize local plan quality on green infrastructure planning.…”

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An Evaluation of Local Comprehensive Plans Toward Sustainable Green Infrastructure in US

Kim

Tran

2018

Sustainability

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The benefits of green infrastructure have been verified at the site-level by many empirical studies. However, there is limited understanding of how local governments prepare and implement green infrastructure planning in practice. This study employs the content analysis method to examine the quality of local comprehensive plans regarding sustainable green infrastructure in 60 municipalities of the United States. The study uses regression analysis to explain the variance of plan quality. Study results indicate that key green infrastructure principles were not fully incorporated in the existing sampled plans, with average score of 19.6 out of 50. While plan quality scores were slightly higher in counties than in cities, both areas could significantly improve plan quality with detailed policies, action strategies, and implementation tactics for green infrastructure planning and management. Regression analysis further identified that planning capacities, as well as socio-economic characteristics of study area may impact overall plan quality. The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of incorporating detailed green infrastructure principles whenever local planners adopt or amend regional plans in order to improve plan quality and to support implementation. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4143 2 of 21 together" (p. 97). Sharing similar views about the role of corridors, Benedict and McMahon [6] added examples of hubs such as natural areas of vegetation, open space, or an unknown ecological value.With the rapid expansion of urbanized areas, leading to increased landscape fragmentation, hubs and corridors have an enhanced role in city or urban areas due to their support to ecosystem services related to landscape connectivity even if rarely evaluated in green infrastructure planning [7,8]. In the city, where natural landscapes have been replaced by man-made structures, hubs and corridors are now more important than ever [5]. To support efforts to restore natural environments to city and urban areas, one of the region's primary tools is implementing effective green infrastructure planning. Green infrastructure often refers to a "strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas that is designed to provide a wide range of ecosystem services" [6,9]. Although the concept can be implied differently at the national (green network), regional (planning), or site (low impact development practices) level, the share goal is to design, construct, and manage nature by harmonizing environmental resources with city landscape [10]. In the US, green infrastructure is more focused on various approaches to manage and restore natural water resources at the various level [11]. As one of natural based solutions to move cities toward sustainability, green infrastructure can help improve the urban stormwater management by enhancing the recreation and tourism opportunities as well as aesthetic externalities [12]. More importantly, green infrastructure also plays a crucial role in saving energy, reducing urban heat island effect...

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Section: Concept Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Evaluation of Local Comprehensive Plans Toward Sustainable Green Infrastructure in US

Kim

Tran

2018

Sustainability

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“…The strengths and weaknesses of plan documents can be assessed and identified; thus, adaptive planning processes and implementations can occur through high quality plans [20,21]. Plan quality evaluations have been actively adopted in multiple domains of research since the mid-1990s, covering general comprehensive planning/land-use, climate change, hazard mitigation, stormwater management, green infrastructure, affordable housing, and low impact development [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. However, to date, limited studies to our knowledge have evaluated plans pertaining to sustainable smart urban regeneration joined with smart technologies by using the step-wise plan quality assessment method.…”

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“…Prior plan evaluation studies examining the topics of sustainability, urban regeneration, and smart cities were reviewed in order to determine the evaluation indicators for this study. In particular, these indicators were associated with five plan components (factual bases, goals and objectives, policies and strategies, coordination, and implementation), which have been often employed in previous evaluation research [22,25,26,36,37].…”

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“…Coordination/cooperation indicates the level of linkage between various organizations for the smooth implementation of a plan; cooperation between local and central governments, residents, and universities in a plan is paramount, since urban regeneration requires the active involvement of diverse stakeholders. Plan evaluation studies that have examined multi-regional issues, such as ecosystem management, stormwater management, climate change, and sustainable development, often assess the quality of coordination [21,25,38,47]. Finally, we have chosen indicators that may efficiently implement the goals and policies within a plan.…”

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Enhancing Sustainable Urban Regeneration through Smart Technologies: An Assessment of Local Urban Regeneration Strategic Plans in Korea

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This study develops multiple evaluation indexes in the context of sustainable urban regeneration through introducing smart technologies/infrastructures and assesses 63 local urban regeneration strategic plans by using the content analysis method. A total of 107 indexes are developed based on the four aspects (economy, society and culture, environment, and livability) of sustainability. From our findings, the average plan quality score of 54 local governments’ plans is 17.5 out of 50, with the metropolitan governments’ plans averaging 16.8, which indicates that the plans currently sampled do not sufficiently reflect the basic concepts of sustainable and smart urban regeneration. The contents of most of the plans generally focus on specific sectors, such as society, culture, and housing, whereas smart technology-related information and policies are relatively deficient. Among the five plan components (factual bases, goals/objectives, policies/strategies, implementation, coordination) reviewed, the implementation component receives the highest score, while indicators related to action strategies are mentioned least often. In particular, the results reveal that indexes relating to the energy and transportation sectors are not frequently mentioned; as such, each municipality is recommended to work to increase awareness of smart technologies and policies. For urban regeneration projects to be sustainable, multi-faceted policies must be implemented by various stakeholders with a long-term perspective. The results of this study can be used as a base for local planners and decision-makers when adopting and supplementing existing regeneration plans, and can contribute to promoting more sustainable urban regeneration through actively adopting various smart technologies initiatives.

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“…Even amid evidence from field and monitoring studies that demonstrate the potential to improve watershed hydrologic function through LID and evidence of a high willingness to pay for associated environmental and amenity benefits among watershed inhabitants (Brent et al, 2017), widespread and watershed-scale implementation of LID lags (Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017;Fenner, 2017). Barriers to LID adoption may take the form of policy, governance, resource or cognitive barriers (Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017;Cousins, 2017;Kim and Li, 2017). With respect to policy and governance barriers to LID implementation, Dhakal and Chevalier (2017) inputs .…”

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Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control and Treatment

Moore

Rodak

Ahmed

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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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Managing stormwater for urban sustainability: an evaluation of local comprehensive plans in the Chesapeake Bay watershed region

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

An Evaluation of Local Comprehensive Plans Toward Sustainable Green Infrastructure in US

An Evaluation of Local Comprehensive Plans Toward Sustainable Green Infrastructure in US

Enhancing Sustainable Urban Regeneration through Smart Technologies: An Assessment of Local Urban Regeneration Strategic Plans in Korea

Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control and Treatment

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