Research Article: Assessing the Social and Economic Barriers to Permeable Surface Utilization for Residential Driveways in Kitchener, Canada

Côté, Stephanie; Wolfe, S. E.

doi:10.1017/s1466046613000641

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“…The most common barriers to homeowners were cost, n = 15, 23%, homeowners’ perceived lack of knowledge, n = 15, 23%, and property specific obstacles, n = 6, 9% (Figure 4). These responses relate to the literature’s standard barriers to change: individuality, responsibility, and practicality (Blake, 1999) and to barriers found in a similar study on adoption of permeable driveway surfaces (Cote & Wolfe, 2014). Property specific obstacles tie to the standard barrier of individuality, as it is an individual difference among participants (Blake, 1999).…”

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confidence: 79%

Community-Based Social Marketing—Creating Lasting, Sustainable, Environmental Change: Case Study of a Household Stormwater Management Program in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario

Smith

Lynes

Wolfe

2019

Social Marketing Quarterly

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With increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change, there is growing need for urban, small-scale adaptation and preventative measures such as stormwater management to reduce the risk of flooding. Homeowners are often reluctant to adopt preventative stormwater measures without tangible benefits or direct experience with the flooding risks or other negative externalities. Using community-based social marketing (CBSM) as a framework, we investigated how to more effectively encourage stormwater management at the household level. In collaboration with the Canadian non-profit organization, Reep Green Solutions (Region of Waterloo, Ontario), we focused on an existing program, the RAIN Home Visit (RHV), which was designed to increase engagement in pro-environmental stormwater management behaviors. Reports from the RHV were assessed, and past program participants were interviewed using a semi-structured question set to identify barriers encountered in enacting these behaviors and to assess the program for inclusion of CBSM principles and tools. Surveys were used to collect demographic data from participants. We found that while preferred behaviors were explained and incentives were provided, more thorough, clear explanation was needed for homeowners as well as incentives of suitable size and value to effectively motivate homeowners to change. Key features that should be included in future RHV programs are public commitments, follow-up, and reminders. Further research should consider risk perception impacts with CBSM, to determine how these can work together and, perhaps, which precedes the other. Some people may be more influenced by social norms to act and others by risk perception.

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Community-Based Social Marketing—Creating Lasting, Sustainable, Environmental Change: Case Study of a Household Stormwater Management Program in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario

Smith

Lynes

Wolfe

2019

Social Marketing Quarterly

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“…The evolution of urban stormwater management has been shifting from conventional end-of-pipe treatment to contemporary sustainable drainage systems such as infiltration technology [21,53].…”

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Review of Water and Heat Balances and Challenges to Adoption of Permeable Pavement System in Vietnam

Pham¹

2023

GEOMATE

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Permeable pavement system (PPS) contributes to mitigating urban floods and urban heat islands (UHI). PPS has been widely used in developed countries for low-traffic areas, parking lots, and sidewalks. However, PPS has not received much attention in developing countries such as Vietnam. Monitoring studies on PPS mostly focus on hydrological and thermal performance related to volume, rate of flow, and surface temperature, but studies of water and heat balances are somewhat limited. This study, therefore, summarizes hydrological and thermal performance especially focusing water and heat balance in PPS, and the measurement techniques/instruments to construct a suitable monitoring system for application to pavement. In addition, challenges to the adoption of PPS in Vietnam were also investigated, fully considering technical standards/requirements and case studies in developed countries. The results showed that PPS contributes to flooding control due to a large infiltration/drainage component. Water vapor carries away a portion of the energy that arrives at the pavement surface, resulting in a reduction in sensible heat and UHI. Evaporation has been the most difficult component to accurately quantify. A lysimeter system is commonly used to measure components of water balance but cannot be easily integrated into a full-scale PPS installation. A monitoring vault can be used in full-scale applications, but a suitable method is required to accurately determine evaporation. The challenges/requirements for PPS adoption in Vietnam include site-specific, technical/engineered, economic, environmentally friendly, associated facilities, current policies, and awareness.

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Social-psychological Determinants of the Implementation of Green Infrastructure for Residential Stormwater Management

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Sinasac²

2020

Environmental Management

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Research Article: Assessing the Social and Economic Barriers to Permeable Surface Utilization for Residential Driveways in Kitchener, Canada

Cited by 11 publications

References 62 publications

Community-Based Social Marketing—Creating Lasting, Sustainable, Environmental Change: Case Study of a Household Stormwater Management Program in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario

Community-Based Social Marketing—Creating Lasting, Sustainable, Environmental Change: Case Study of a Household Stormwater Management Program in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario

Review of Water and Heat Balances and Challenges to Adoption of Permeable Pavement System in Vietnam

Social-psychological Determinants of the Implementation of Green Infrastructure for Residential Stormwater Management

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