Public perception towards river and water conservation practices: Opportunities for implementing urban stormwater management practices

Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge: Do They Matter for Support and Investment in Local Stormwater Infrastructure?

“…On the other hand, literature assessing how individuals become motivated to support environmental investments suggests that promoting specific benefits that work in individuals' functional self-interest, especially as property owners, may better motivate WTP and WTS (Gao et al 2018;Diringer et al 2020). Providing incentives for selfmade investments may prove more effective than a tax or fee approach (Rissman, Kohl, and Wardropper 2017).…”

“…Future research should aim to provide additional guidance to campus and other local environmental managers on how to appeal to this untapped base to generate funds and political action for transformative investments. In semi-arid contexts, a multi-pronged strategy may be most effective, by deploying a range of stormwater infrastructure demonstration projects alongside resource security and economic pitches that cater to community-level, self-interested concerns (Roque 2017;Gao et al 2018). Further research, however, must assess which behavioral frameworks, benefits, and communication approaches most effectively motivate public support for stormwater investments.…”

Assessing sectoral heterogeneity and leadership in urban water management networks

“…Methodologically, this paper shows promise for future text analysismuch of which is already gaining traction in studies of policy and political science (e.g., Nowlin, 2016;Gao et al, 2018). Automated web scraping and rule-based extraction, for example, is a promising direction to improve the breadth and accuracy of content analysis (Valenzuela-Escárcega et al, 2015).…”

Where and When Soil Amendment is Most Effective as a Low Impact Development Practice in Residential Areas

“…Rain gardens are generally very effective (Selbig and Balster 2010) and are embraced by many citizens, but others remain concerned about the possibility of standing water and insects as well as the need for maintenance to prevent weedy or trashy appearances (Gao et al. 2018). Interestingly, there is some evidence that much of the hydrologic function of rain gardens are driven by their engineered soils and enhanced infiltration capacity (Selbig and Balster 2010), so requiring depression storage (which sometimes leads to standing water) and native vegetation (which can require weeding) in low impact practices may not be necessary in order to realize hydrologic benefits.…”

“…While rain gardens and entire‐yard amendment are likely to remain the gold‐standard for reducing runoff, a simpler approach may appeal to homeowners whose concerns about these practices (Gao et al. 2018) are difficult to dispel.…”