Rainwater Harvesting – Reaping a Free and Plentiful Supply of Water

Charlesworth, Susanne M.; Booth, Colin A.; Warwick, Frank; Lashford, Craig; Lade, Omolara

doi:10.1002/9781118809167.ch12

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“…Policy can also stimulate and enforce existing monitoring systems [46]. Improper design, inadequate performance data and insufficient maintenance can all be caused by lack of standards and evaluation frameworks, which can lead to resilience challenges [36,44,45,111].…”

Section: Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stormwater Green Infrastructure Resilience Assessment: A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stormwater Management

Mosleh

Negahban-Azar

Pavao-Zuckerman

2023

Water

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Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Stormwater Green infrastructure (SWGI) is seen as an approach to increase the climate resilience of urban areas, because they can buffer precipitation changes brought on by climate change. However, SWGI features themselves need to be resilient to climate change to be able to contribute to the resilience of cities. Thus, we aimed to develop a SWGI resilience assessment framework that could be used to identify challenges and to inform decisionmakers’ efforts to enhance resilience. We developed a resilience assessment framework based upon a resilience matrix approach to recognize effective resilience categories for SWGI by reviewing the literature on critical functionality and barriers to implementation and operation. These categories for SWGI included policy, design, maintenance, economic factors and social factors that influence SWGI functionality. We then identified specific aspects under each category that could be used for assessing SWGI resilience, recognizing that SWGI has critical functionalities and factors controlling its viability. Unlike other SWGI assessment frameworks that are focused on ecosystem services as a final outcome, we worked from a socio-ecological perspective in order to include socio-economic and policy factors and design and planning aspects that affect service provision. Developing a resilience assessment framework is critical for management because it can reveal the specific challenges facing SWGI resilience that have traditionally been overlooked, such as maintenance and social factors. This specific framework can also lead to efficient planning and management by identifying interrelations and hierarchical relationships of categories that influence resilience. Application of this framework will rely upon expert input to connect broad dimensions with specific indicators for SWGI to local priorities in resilience planning.

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Section: Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Stormwater Green Infrastructure Resilience Assessment: A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stormwater Management

Mosleh

Negahban-Azar

Pavao-Zuckerman

2023

Water

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“…Additionally, inadequate design, insufficient performance data (particularly across different climatic extremes) and lack of maintenance can all stem from a lack of standards, resulting in negative perceptions and reluctance to develop individual solutions from the growing GI toolkit (refer to Sect. 2) (Charlesworth et al 2014;Baptiste et al 2015;Campbell et al 2016). Insufficient quantitative and qualitative data on provision of ecosystem services related to GI design can also hinder mainstreaming, implementation and adoption after construction, as it is difficult to demonstrate exactly how critical system functionality is maintained through GI approaches (Tayouga and Gagné 2016;Kremer et al 2016).…”

Section: Standards Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches seems to ensure greater success as in the Australian case where GI was introduced at the grassroots level but specifically mandated in national guidelines, followed by official programmes and then performance targets were enacted-although this embedding took place across a time span of nearly 50 years (Vogel et al 2015). In the UK, GI techniques were first programmatically recommended in the Flood and Water Management Act of 2010 to alleviate flooding, but there is still controversy and debate over many aspects of mainstreaming (Charlesworth et al 2014). Top-down examples where GI is mandated or strongly recommended are emerging, usually in response to a major event, though policies can vary from city to city and region to region within the same country.…”

Section: Regulatory Challengementioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions of green infrastructure to enhancing urban resilience

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After briefly reviewing key resilience engineering perspectives and summarising some green infrastructure (GI) tools, we present the contributions that GI can make to enhancing urban resilience and maintaining critical system functionality across complex integrated social-ecological and technical systems. We then examine five key challenges for the effective implementation of GI that include (1) standards; (2) regulation; (3) socioeconomic factors; (4) financeability; and (5) innovation. We highlight ways in which these challenges are being dealt with around the world, particularly through the use of approaches that are both context appropriate and socially inclusive. Although progress surmounting these challenges has been made, more needs to be done to ensure that GI approaches are inclusive and appropriate and feature equally alongside more traditional 'grey' infrastructure in the future of urban resilience planning. This research was undertaken for the Resilience Shift initiative to shift the approach to resilience in practice for critical infrastructure sectors. The programme aims to help practitioners involved in critical infrastructure to make decisions differently, contributing to a safer and better world.

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