Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Poleto, Cristiano; Tassi, Rutinéia

doi:10.5772/34491

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“…A movement towards sustainable options in urban drainage is underway (Poleto and Tassi, 2012). SuDS, also referred to as sustainable urban drainage systems, as discussed by Fletcher et al (2015), are best defined as approaches aimed at imitating natural water management processes which have been wholly or partially eliminated due to the influence of urbanisation (Graham et al, 2012).…”

Section: Suds and Their Applications In Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While vegetated SuDS offer many advantages, they require regular maintenance to remove litter and fatty-acid build-up from domestic wastewater (Parkinson et al, 2007). Pervious solutions allow water to percolate below the surface, into temporary storage or to recharge the groundwater (Brooker, 2011;Poleto and Tassi, 2012). Pervious paving is suited to areas prone to littering, as in the pedestrian lanes in informal settlements (Fitchett, 2014), and facilitates the sedimentation of pollutants (Ellis et al, 2012).…”

Section: Suds and Their Applications In Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Jones and Macdonald, 2007;Woods-Ballard et al, 2007;Brooker, 2011;Poleto and Tassi, 2012). All of the interventions allowed for ease of dismantling and reconfiguration, as a response to the ever-changing physical environment.…”

Section: Implementation Of Sudsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This water may need pretreatment to remove contaminants (Woods-Ballard et al, 2007). Sustainable stormwater projects should be incremental, following adaptive management practices to optimise performance (Jones and Macdonald, 2007;Woods-Ballard et al, 2007;Poleto and Tassi, 2012;Pahl-Wostl et al, 2008).…”

Section: Suds and Their Applications In Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SuDS for managing surface water in Diepsloot informal settlement, Johannesburg, South Africa

Fitchett¹

2017

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Section: Suds and Their Applications In Informal Settlementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Suds and Their Applications In Informal Settlementsmentioning

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Section: Implementation Of Sudsmentioning

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Section: Suds and Their Applications In Informal Settlementsmentioning

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SuDS for managing surface water in Diepsloot informal settlement, Johannesburg, South Africa

Fitchett¹

2017

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“…In high income countries, there has been a reliance on conventional systems, such as large centralized sewage systems, that can lead to a lack of ability to adapt to changing conditions [17,18], such as changes to the concentration and temperature of effluent, which affects treatment performance. To reduce these risks there is a need for political will to develop more innovative measures, such as ways to retain or locally infiltrate stormwater [39,40].…”

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Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas

2016

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While sanitation is fundamental for health and wellbeing, cities of all sizes face growing challenges in providing safe, affordable and functional sanitation systems that are also sustainable. Factors such as limited political will, inadequate technical, financial and institutional capacities and failure to integrate safe sanitation systems into broader urban development have led to a persistence of unsustainable systems and missed opportunities to tackle overlapping and interacting urban challenges. This paper reviews challenges associated with providing sanitation systems in urban areas and explores ways to promote sustainable sanitation in cities. It focuses on opportunities to stimulate sustainable sanitation approaches from a resource recovery perspective, generating added value to society while protecting human and ecosystem health. We show how, if integrated within urban development, sustainable sanitation has great potential to catalyse action and contribute to multiple sustainable development goals.

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Nature‐based solutions for urban pluvial flood risk management

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Urban pluvial flooding now occurs more frequently than it has in past decades, mainly due to an increasing number of extreme precipitation events occurring in the context of a changing climate. To limit the evolving risks of urban pluvial flooding in a more environmentally friendly manner, the research community has recently paid increasing attention to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), which are based on new green technologies. To meet the urgent demand for a comprehensive review of the most recent literature, this review conducts a systematic survey of the literature to characterize various NBS adopted in different regions of the world and to elaborate on the benefits and limitations of such NBS. The review highlights the role of NBS in urban flood risk management under ongoing climate change and rapid urbanization. It shows that NBS could effectively mitigate urban flooding caused by high-frequency precipitation events, with additional economic, ecological, and social benefits. However, NBS are less effective at helping cope with pluvial flooding caused by extreme precipitation events over a short period of time, while gray infrastructures also have limitations as a mitigation measure against extreme pluvial flooding. We thus recommend identifying flood risk management strategies by evaluating the performance of alternative combinations of NBS with gray infrastructures in preventing pluvial flooding in the cities. Finally, recent advances made in the applications of NBS are presented with suggestions (e.g., long-term monitoring) to improve urban flood adaptive management. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Planning Water Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water Science of Water > Water Extremes K E Y W O R D S extreme precipitation, nature-based solution, risk management, urban pluvial flood Yijing Huang and Zhan Tian equally contributed to this study.[Correction added on 27 April 2020, after first online publication: the unit of second affiliation has been updated and funding information has been reordered.]

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Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Cited by 36 publications

References 14 publications

SuDS for managing surface water in Diepsloot informal settlement, Johannesburg, South Africa

SuDS for managing surface water in Diepsloot informal settlement, Johannesburg, South Africa

Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas

Nature‐based solutions for urban pluvial flood risk management

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