Water as a metric for urban development in India

Nawre, Alpa

doi:10.1080/18626033.2015.1011443

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“…The issue of drought is not new to landscape and urban design. In other parts of the world, there are long-standing traditions in designing water supplies that may provide inspiration for the future; water tanks in Sri Lanka (Shannon and Manawadu 2007), irrigation infrastructures in the Veneto region (Fabian and Viganò, 2010) and rainwater harvesting in India (Nawre 2015). Furthermore, (the lack of) water has been addressed by Landscape Ecology, an established field of research since the beginning of the 1980's.…”

Section: ) Drought Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shifting climate, reshaping urban landscapes: Designing for drought in the Campine landscape

Waegemaeker

Acker

Kerselaers³

et al. 2016

Journal of Landscape Architecture

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As global warming persists, regions with moderate climatic conditions will be confronted with exacerbating seasonal variations, including aggravating dry periods. This upcoming drought challenge receives, however, little attention by policy makers. Likewise, Flemish planners and designers focus on floods, not droughts. This research concentrates on design strategies to deal with a lack of water in highly urbanised territories such as Flanders. The article analyses the results of a design workshop on (future) drought issues in the Campine region; Shifting Climate, Reshaping Urban Landscapes. Four distinct strategies are delineated: 'remodeling the valleys', 'retrofitting urbanisation', 'aqueducts 2.0' and 'autonomous, local water networks'. The article discusses the premise of each strategy and its approach to the local landscape and urban tissue. Moreover, it highlights key issues to drought design in highly urbanised territories. Drought, a forgotten climate challengeClimate change is widely recognized as a key issue of the twenty-first century. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns global warming will cause multiple droughts; meteorological droughts agricultural droughts, hydrological droughts and water supplies under pressure (Jiménez Cisneros et al. 2014). Accordingly, territories must be prepared for an increasing lack of water. In water scarce regions climate change will aggravate current drought issues.

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Section: ) Drought Designmentioning

confidence: 99%