Deliberative Policy Analysis and Policy-making in Urban Stormwater Management

Travaline, Katharine A.; Montalto, Franco; Hunold, Christian

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2015.1026593

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“…While the central goal for PWD is to use GI to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSOs), urban stakeholders are also hoping to see this investment provide jobs and job-training, reduce heat island effect, beautify neighborhoods, and raise property values (Travaline, Montalto, & Hunold, 2015). Globally, GI is increasingly discussed as an urban adaptation strategy, and particularly as a means of reducing flood and health risks due to both climate change and increasing extent and rate of urbanization, and associated environmental risks (Zhou, 2014).…”

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“…This requirement, however, will not lead to incorporation of GI into the redevelopment situated on the more common, smaller lots that predominate in Philly's residential neighborhoods. The presence of privately owned vacant land is particularly important to prospects of GI (Mon-talto et al, 2012;Travaline et al, 2015), and this factor is ever evolving over time due to redevelopment. As sites are developed, GI opportunities may be lost.…”

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Maximizing Green Infrastructure in a Philadelphia Neighborhood

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While the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) is counting on Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GI) as a key component of its long-term plan for reducing combined sewer overflows, many community stakeholders are also hoping that investment in greening can help meet other ancillary goals, collectively referred to as sustainable redevelopment. This study investigates the challenges associated with implementation of GI in Point Breeze, a residential neighborhood of South Philadelphia. The project team performed a detailed study of physical, social, legal, and economic conditions in the pilot neighborhood over the course of several years, culminating in the development of an agent-based model simulation of GI implementation. The model evaluates a) whether PWD’s GI goals can be met in a timely manner, b) what kinds of assumptions regarding participation would be needed under different theoretical GI policies, and c) the extent to which GI could promote sustainable redevelopment. The model outcomes underscore the importance of private land in helping PWD achieve its GI goals in Point Breeze. Achieving a meaningful density of GI in the neighborhoods most in need of sustainable redevelopment may require new and creative strategies for GI implementation tailored for the types of land present in those particular communities.

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Maximizing Green Infrastructure in a Philadelphia Neighborhood

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Loomis³

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“…The base map for this figure is credited to Esri (2009). (Travaline et al, 2015). A complete list of guiding questions is provided in the Supporting Information.…”

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Exploring the Long‐Term Economic and Social Impact of Green Infrastructure in New York City

Wong

Montalto

2020

Water Resources Research

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Across the world, cities are spending billions of dollars to manage urban runoff through decentralized green infrastructure (GI). This research uses an agent-based model to explore some of the physical, social, and economic consequences of one such urban GI programs. Using the Bronx, NY, as a case study, two alternative approaches to GI application are compared. The first (Model 1) mimics NYC's current GI program by opportunistically selecting sites for GI within the city's priority combined sewer watersheds; the second (Model 2) features a more spatially flexible approach to GI siting, in which the city attempts to maximize opportunities for co-benefits within the geographic areas considered in Model 1. The effects of both approaches, measured in terms of stormwater captured and co-benefits (e.g., carbon sequestered) provided, are tracked over 20-year simulations. While both models suggest it will be difficult to meet the citywide stormwater capture goals (managing the first 2.5 cm of rainfall from 10% of impervious surfaces) in the Bronx solely through public investment in GI, Model 2 shows that by integrating GI with other city initiatives (e.g., sustainability goals and resilience planning), synergistic outcomes are possible. Specifically, Model 2 produces stormwater capture rates comparable to those obtained under Model 1, but these rates are accompanied by elevated co-benefits for Bronx communities. The results are discussed in the context of future GI policy development in NYC. GI sites utilize soil, vegetation, and other natural features to retain, detain, and infiltrate urban runoff, diverting it from engineered collection systems. These processes help treat stormwater at the source, reducing pollutant loads, replenishing soil moisture, recharging aquifers, and mitigating local flooding (Narayan et al.

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“…Arguments along these lines tend to emphasize the importance of ensuring that technical expertise, technologies, and concerns about efficiency are balanced in decision‐making with local knowledges, experiences, values, and needs. Recent scholarship has highlighted continuing challenges and barriers to making public and stakeholder participation in urban water governance equitable and meaningful, as well as determining what counts as participation . In addition, critical approaches have raised important questions about associated technologies, infrastructures, as well as the watershed—now routinely institutionalized in water governance—as the most fitting and natural scale for participation …”

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Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

Finewood

Holifield

2015

WIREs Water

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As global urban regions grow and transform, water systems present a unique set of challenges to stakeholders. Municipalities often struggle to pay for and maintain aging infrastructure as well as create equitable access for growing populations-especially in the rapidly urbanizing Global South. Critical approaches to urban water governance have made tremendous contributions to our collective knowledge of how these systems work. In this study, we argue that the most important direction for these approaches to urban water governance is to translate the insights generated by critique into the positive project to construct more just and democratic systems and practices of governance. However, we contend that in order to do this work, critical scholarship on urban water governance will need to continue deepening its engagement with two larger sets of debates. First, to help realize more just and democratic systems, it will need to grapple with the complex dimensions of debates on how to theorize and conceptualize justice and democracy. Second, in order to create effective alternatives to current paradigms of water governance, it will need to show how recent conceptualizations of urban water as hybrid or heterogeneous assemblage can help build truly transdisciplinary collaborations. We explore these debates through a review of recent critical approaches to urban water governance, with attention to ways forward that embrace epistemological pluralism and transdisciplinary collaboration.

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Deliberative Policy Analysis and Policy-making in Urban Stormwater Management

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Maximizing Green Infrastructure in a Philadelphia Neighborhood

Maximizing Green Infrastructure in a Philadelphia Neighborhood

Exploring the Long‐Term Economic and Social Impact of Green Infrastructure in New York City

Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration

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