2018
DOI: 10.1002/sd.1723
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The Water Retention Index: Using land use planning to manage water resources in Europe

Abstract: Appropriate land management can be an effective approach to improving water quantity regulation. There is, however, a need to identify both where measures are most needed and where they may be most effective. The water retention index (WRI) was developed with this goal in mind.The WRI is a composite indicator which takes into account parameters reflecting potential water retention in vegetation, water bodies, soil and underlying aquifers, as well as the influence of slope and artificially sealed areas. Three l… Show more

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“…At the same time, it made reference to safety issues, the functionality of material recovery and on the sustainability performance of construction products (Jiménez‐Rivero & García‐Navarro, 2017). The Commission has always promoted green initiatives like reusing excavated soils in order to reduce the sealing of the soils, and to rehabilitate any abandoned or contaminated brownfields (Vandecasteele et al, 2018).…”
Section: The European Union's Environmental Policymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, it made reference to safety issues, the functionality of material recovery and on the sustainability performance of construction products (Jiménez‐Rivero & García‐Navarro, 2017). The Commission has always promoted green initiatives like reusing excavated soils in order to reduce the sealing of the soils, and to rehabilitate any abandoned or contaminated brownfields (Vandecasteele et al, 2018).…”
Section: The European Union's Environmental Policymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Water Retention Index (WRI) is a useful tool to estimate potential water retention comprehensively (Vandecasteele, I. et al 2018). The WRI is calculated from the equation…”
Section: Floodwater Retention In Floodplainsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using nonlinear regression for a sensitivity analysis (Paruolo, P. et al 2013), Vandecasteele, I. et al (2018) established a weighting to both types of water retention, where surface water bodies received exactly double optimized weight (0.24) compared to soils and deposits (0.14). We followed this weighting and arrived at an equation which points to the relative importance of these components:…”
Section: Floodwater Retention In Floodplainsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In larger catchments, other factors like river straightening, loss of floodplains and changes in atmospheric conditions are more dominant (Viglioneet al , 2016). If managed properly, LULCC can be beneficial for water regulation, in urban but also in upstream runoff generating areas (Vandecasteele et al , 2017). Thus, flood risk management plans might also include the promotion of sustainable land use as well as the improvement of water retention and the controlled flooding of certain areas in case of a flood event as defined in the EU Floods Directive 2007/60/EC (European Union, 2007).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%