Sustainable Stormwater Management and Green Infrastructure
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 81
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability; urban stormwater management; sustainable rural sanitation; economic aspects of sustainable development; porous media hydraulics
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Interests: environmental engineering; sustainable water; sewage and waste management; stormwater systems; water quality; soil moisture and hydraulic conductivity measurements; numerical modeling of water flow in pipelines and soil media
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently observed climate changes, characterized by changes in the frequency of high-intensity extreme rainfall events, combined with rapidly developing urbanization, have resulted in significant changes in water balance in urbanized catchments. An increase in the volume and flow rate of surface runoff, combined with frequent flooding, and a decrease in infiltration rate, allowing underground aquifers to recharge, is commonly reported in urban basins. Green infrastructure, utilizing plants and porous media, allowing the interception, retention, infiltration, and evaporation of rainwater, may be successfully applied to restore the distorted water balance of urban catchments. Thus, green-architecture-based sustainable rainwater management in urbanized regions, considered within environmental, economic, and social pillars of sustainability, seems to be a crucial and effective way to manage rainwater.
We are pleased to invite you to this Special Issue, which aims to present and to extend the actual state of knowledge considering the application of green infrastructure to sustainable stormwater management in urbanized catchments in relation to its sustainability, social-economic, technical, and legal aspects.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Application of green infrastructure to sustainable stormwater management in urbanized regions;
- Green infrastructure as a measure of climate change adaptation and flood reduction;
- Trends, benefits, and limitations of green architecture and low-impact development in urban catchments;
- Economic aspects of sustainable stormwater management, including investment as well as operation and maintenance costs, economic feasibility, cost efficiency, potential benefits, and willingness-to-pay;
- Public policies and social and legal aspects of green infrastructure application to rainwater management;
- Hydrologic efficiency of green infrastructure in limiting the volume and flow rate of surface runoff in urbanized catchments;
- Characteristics of green infrastructure components, including plants, infiltration substrates, drainage materials, etc., affecting its application efficiency in stormwater management.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Marcin K. Widomski
Dr. Anna Musz-Pomorska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable stormwater management
- green infrastructure
- urban catchment
- water balance
- green roofs
- low-impact development
- surface runoff
- economic feasibility
- cost-efficiency
