The Scale Effects of Green Infrastructures on Urban Stormwater Runoff
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 4928
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban flood; flood modelling; urban hydrology; stormwater management; green infrastructures; river and coastal hydraulics; sediment dynamics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: floodplain hydraulics; flood frequency analysis; flood and sediment modelling; rainwater management; urban water management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urbanisation dramatically changes natural catchment characteristics by increasing impervious areas and creating artificial drainage systems. These anthropogenic activities, therefore, result in significant adverse hydrobioecological consequences, such as flash runoff, reduced natural stormwater recharge and storage, and deteriorated stormwater quality. To offset these adverse effects, nature-based stormwater management techniques, such as green infrastructures (GIs), have been increasingly considered as potential options. The benefits of GIs on urban stormwater vary not only according to their features but also their spatial and temporal scales. Systems within a system interact with each other, and a measure may lose its effectiveness after a certain period of usage. Nonetheless, there are still challenging research questions that remain to be explored regarding the performance of GIs at varying spatiotemporal scales, for example: How and to what extent do GIs affect urban stormwater runoff from the perspective of catchment scale and long-term scale? Which is the better modelling approach to quantify urban stormwater and their interactions with green and grey infrastructures at different spatial and temporal scales? How to maximise the benefits of GIs in an urban catchment?
For this Special Issue, we welcome papers on GIs and their evaluation in urban stormwater management at different spatiotemporal scales, including local, regional, city, and catchment scales as well as short-event and long-term scales. We also invite contributions that describe advanced modelling approaches to better simulate the physical processes of urban stormwater at different scales.
Dr. Mingfu Guan
Dr. Sangaralingam Ahilan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green infrastructures
- urbanisation
- urban stormwater
- rainfall runoff
- hydrological modelling
- spatiotemporal scale
