Water retention in urban areas in the Danube Region: Study on facts, activities, measures and their financial assessment

Pokrývková, Jozefína; Jurík, Luboš; Hanzlík, Richard

doi:10.15414/2021.9788055222998

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“…In all three model areas, there are gaps with no woody vegetation. The change of climate induces more frequent extreme weather changes and events [68], which can be significantly mitigated by vegetation [37,38,68]. High-quality roadside vegetation will not solve global environmental problems and their impact on settlements, yet it can significantly contribute to the mitigation and elimination of negative impacts of heavy traffic in settlements [68,69].…”

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“…The change of climate induces more frequent extreme weather changes and events [68], which can be significantly mitigated by vegetation [37,38,68]. High-quality roadside vegetation will not solve global environmental problems and their impact on settlements, yet it can significantly contribute to the mitigation and elimination of negative impacts of heavy traffic in settlements [68,69]. All three model areas M1, M2, and M3 are negatively impacted by these effects, which are justified by statistical data [70].…”

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Roadside Vegetation Functions, Woody Plant Values, and Ecosystem Services in Rural Streetscapes: A Qualitative Study on Rural Settlements in Western Slovakia

Kuczman,

Bechera,

Rózová

et al. 2024

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Woody plants in roadside green spaces of rural settlements provide a wide range of ecosystem functions and services. The study presented in this paper was conducted in three rural settlements in Western Slovakia, representing three different rural landscape types—lowland, basin, and mountainous landscapes. The assessed woody vegetation is situated in diverse settlement structures, with various spatial patterns. A comprehensive woody plant assessment was conducted in selected central streetscapes of three model settlements, examining spatial, compositional, visual, aesthetic, and other values, as well as the characteristics of woody plants. These attributes were clustered according to five main functions and fourteen value parameters and the results were assigned to three quality categories, to objectivise a qualitative woody plant assessment in roadside vegetation structures in the countryside. The findings show the level of suitability of woody plants based on how they fulfil aesthetic, compositional, climate, safety, cultural, and historical functions.

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Roadside Vegetation Functions, Woody Plant Values, and Ecosystem Services in Rural Streetscapes: A Qualitative Study on Rural Settlements in Western Slovakia

Kuczman,

Bechera,

Rózová

et al. 2024

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“…Precipitation is in principle recorded where it occurs [30] and brought back into the natural water cycle on site by appropriate systems, if possible [31]. This can be achieved by storage, evaporation, drainage and infiltration, creation of seepage pits, rain gardens, application of green roofs or water-permeable areas [32][33][34].…”

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The Urban Environment Impact of Climate Change Study and Proposal of the City Micro-Environment Improvement

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The water management of cities and villages faces many challenges. Aging infrastructure systems operate for many years after their theoretical lifetime (operation) with a very high need for reconstruction and repair. The solution is proper rainwater management. The investigated area is part of the cadastral area of the Nitra city. This article is based on the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as tools in proposing water retention measures that are needed to improve the microenvironment of the city. We proceeded in several steps, which consisted of area analysis, survey, surface runoff calculations in urbanized areas, proposal of a suitable solution for given location. For real possibilities of rainwater management procedures, a new site on the outskirts of the city was selected. In the given locality, it was possible to use water infiltration as a solution. The locality has suitable conditions of land ownership, pedological conditions, the slope of the area and also the interest of the inhabitants in the ecological solution. The outlined study indicates the need to continue research on the reliability of rainwater management practices.

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“…For example, in Upper Austria, a municipality must issue its own sewerage regulations and can thus define the conditions of the discharge. The Lower Austrian municipalities, on the other hand, can only set fees for the discharge of rainwater (Pokrývková et al, 2020). Nevertheless, this tool can also potentially be used for research in other countries.…”

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Small-scale retention as an element of the eco-city concept in the context of strategic planning documents in Poland

Rogatka,

Brzezicka-Rawa,

Lewandowska

et al. 2023

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Contemporary cities should be developed based on concepts grounded in ecology and sustainable development. The eco-city is one of such concepts which emphasises the role of hydrological resources, especially small-scale retention, in environmentally- and user-friendly spatial development.Pro-environmental concepts are manifested mainly as provisions reflecting the above principles in the strategic documents of cities. The aim of this article was to verify the hypothesis postulating that in “Studies of the Conditions and Directions of Spatial Development” (SCaDSD) [in Polish: “Studia uwarunkowań i kierunków zagospodarowania przestrzennego” – SUiKZP], which are the fundamental strategic documents for Polish cities, the approach to small-scale retention is diverse and often insufficient from the “eco-city” perspective. To achieve the research goal, SCaDSDs were analysed in a comparative study (7,061 data records for spatial planning and small-scale retention were analysed). The study demonstrated that in SCaDSDs, small-scale retention solutions are diversified both quantitatively and qualitatively, which may hinder the implementation of the eco-city concept in terms of small-scale retention. SCaDSDs focus primarily on the protective and cleansing roles of retention, including protection against flood risk and access to clean water which is a basic human need. SCaDSDs should offer a multi-functional approach to retention and thus fully implement“eco-city” principles. This is a particularly important consideration because the role of strategic planning documents is to provide up-to-date directions for the sustainable development for modern cities.

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Water retention in urban areas in the Danube Region: Study on facts, activities, measures and their financial assessment

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Roadside Vegetation Functions, Woody Plant Values, and Ecosystem Services in Rural Streetscapes: A Qualitative Study on Rural Settlements in Western Slovakia

Roadside Vegetation Functions, Woody Plant Values, and Ecosystem Services in Rural Streetscapes: A Qualitative Study on Rural Settlements in Western Slovakia

The Urban Environment Impact of Climate Change Study and Proposal of the City Micro-Environment Improvement

Small-scale retention as an element of the eco-city concept in the context of strategic planning documents in Poland

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