Sustainability

Abstract

This review on Sustainability covers selected journal articles and conferences papers published in 2010 and is divided into the following sections • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities: • Sustainable water resources management • Industrial and corporate approaches towards sustainability • Stormwater and green infrastructure • Sustainability in wastewater treatment • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry • Sustainability and climate change • Sustainability and water reuse • Sustainability rating systems The sustainable water and wastewater utilities reviewed sustainable practices and sustainable workforce management. The stormwater and green infrastructure (GI) described the current development in five categories: new studies of GI and low impact development (LID) system performance; GI/LID system planning assessments; macro‐scale hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of GI/LID systems; efforts to model changes of water flow and quality in individual GI/LID systems; and social implications of GI/LID systems. The sustainability in wastewater treatment reviewed wastewater treatment; source separation; anaerobic technologies; wetland and low impact treatment systems; algae technologies; and the microbial fuel cell technology.

Seeing Green by Going Green: Maximizing Ecosystem/Community Services Benefits through Strategic Green Storm-Water Infrastructure Design

“…As members of the ASCE Task Committee on Evolutionary Computation in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Nicklow et al (2010) provide a comprehensive overview of the recent use of EAs in water resources management. Another trend in the field has been a shift from traditional BMPs to low impact development or GSI that promotes sustainability (EPA 2007;Zhou et al 2011). To address sustainability, TBL accounting is currently used by planners and managers, which considers social, economic, and environmental issues and not just the cost-effectiveness of GSI controls.…”