Managing urban stormwater for urban sustainability: Barriers and policy solutions for green infrastructure application

Dhakal, Krishna P.; Chevalier, Lizette R.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.07.065

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“…In the topic of water resource management, Lee et al (2012) and Barthel and Isendahl (2013) highlighted that the application of green infrastructure technology has great potential to address severe water and environmental problems due to rapid urbanization. Dhakal and Chevalier (2017) analyzed policies of U.S. cities and available literature to diagnose the obstacles of green infrastructure adoption. Dhakal and Chevalier (2017) analyzed policies of U.S. cities and available literature to diagnose the obstacles of green infrastructure adoption.…”

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“…However, current penetration of green infrastructure technologies remains low in cities (de Sousa et al, 2012). Dhakal and Chevalier (2017) analyzed policies of U.S. cities and available literature to diagnose the obstacles of green infrastructure adoption. The findings emphasize that most of the barriers come from cognitive limitations and socio-institutional arrangements.…”

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Research Development on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure From 1991 to 2017: A Bibliometric Analysis to Inform Future Innovations

Liu

et al. 2019

Earth's Future

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Studies of sustainable urban infrastructure are expanding since the United Nations proposed the concept of sustainability in 1982. The need for more sustainable urban infrastructures led to many research efforts on innovative technologies and development strategies. We analyzed research progress on sustainable urban infrastructure from 1991 to 2017 using bibliometric, keyword co-occurrence and document cocitation network analysis. An increasing publication number suggests a rapid development of the sustainable urban infrastructure research area, but the development is still in an emerging stage. With respect to the analysis of research themes, we analyzed keyword co-occurrence networks in the three stages of . We observed substantial expansions and intensive interconnections of research theme clusters on sustainable urban infrastructure. The themes from 2009 to 2017 include "critical infrastructure," "urban planning and design," "development need," "technology innovation," and "cyber-physical system." The United States produced 28.93% of the publications and played a core role in the international collaboration network. We further compared national interests among top productive countries, which highlights different priorities of investing more sustainable urban infrastructures. Finally, we presented an in-depth analysis of four emerging technology innovations, namely, renewable energy, smart grid, green infrastructure, and cloud computing regarding research directions and challenges. Our results not only provide a valuable reference for researchers who are interested in sustainable urban infrastructures but also put forward the emphasis and orientations of future studies.Plain Language Summary More than a half of world population are currently living in urban areas for decent work and high-quality services. How we develop cities and infrastructures affects resource needs, quality of life, and the impact of natural environment. Considering the increasing pressure from resource depletion, ecosystem degradation, and climate change, it is critical and urgent to foresee what future cities and infrastructures should be and the gaps we should overcome. Our study provided an overview for a broad audience to recognize the current research progress of sustainable urban infrastructure. Our study shows that this topic is still in an emerging stage with a steady growth of publications. The research themes have expanded dramatically to cover critical infrastructure, development need, technological innovation, urban planning design, and cyber-physical system. United States is currently leading this research area, but countries have their own interests in sustainable urban infrastructure depending on economic development. In the end, we provided an in-depth analysis about renewable energy, smart grid, green infrastructures, and cloud computing in terms of research themes and challenges. The testing and validation of these technologies will be required that can fulfill the complex needs of urban citizens in a sustainable and rel...

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Research Development on Sustainable Urban Infrastructure From 1991 to 2017: A Bibliometric Analysis to Inform Future Innovations

Liu

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“…Even amid evidence from field and monitoring studies that demonstrate the potential to improve watershed hydrologic function through LID and evidence of a high willingness to pay for associated environmental and amenity benefits among watershed inhabitants (Brent et al, 2017), widespread and watershed-scale implementation of LID lags (Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017;Fenner, 2017). Barriers to LID adoption may take the form of policy, governance, resource or cognitive barriers (Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017;Cousins, 2017;Kim and Li, 2017). With respect to policy and governance barriers to LID implementation, Dhakal and Chevalier (2017) inputs .…”

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“…Barriers to LID adoption may take the form of policy, governance, resource or cognitive barriers (Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017;Cousins, 2017;Kim and Li, 2017). With respect to policy and governance barriers to LID implementation, Dhakal and Chevalier (2017) inputs . As documented by , lack of adoption is not the only challenge facing watershed-scale implementation of LID practices; once implemented, many stormwater control measures are not properly maintained, thereby limiting potential to realize watershed hydrologic and water quality targets.…”

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Urban Stormwater Characterization, Control and Treatment

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Rodak

Ahmed

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Water Environment Research

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A review of literature related to stormwater runoff characterization and its subsequent management and treatment from 2017 was conducted. The 250 articles summarized herein are organized along three central themes: (1) stormwater quality and quantity characteristics, (2) site-scale stormwater management practices, with a focus on low impact development (LID) and green infrastructure (GI), and (3) watershed-scale performance of stormwater controls. Within each section, common research themes and future work are highlighted.

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“…Barriers to the implementation of green infrastructure are explored and by studying 10 US cities and 33 policies suggestions grouped into five categories, ranging from public education and awareness programs to changes in policies and governance structures (Dhakal and Chevalier, 2017). Philadelphia, PA (USA) was evaluated as a case study for governing green infrastructure, which the authors argue is as important for the success of GI as (Zidar et al, 2017a).…”

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