Transformational Changes Associated with Sustainable Stormwater Management Practices in Onondaga County, New York

Flynn, Carli D.; Davidson, Cliff I.; Mahoney, Joanne

doi:10.1061/9780784478745.009

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“…After a regional wastewater treatment facility was constructed which displaced 45 families, the political winds in the county changed [40]. A new County Commissioner was elected following a campaign which promised greener approaches and increased public engagement in the stormwater management process [41].…”

Section: Case Study: Onondaga County's Save the Rain Programmentioning

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Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Lieberherr

Green²

2018

Sustainability

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As in other industrialized countries, many urban water social-ecological systems in the United States are characterized by frequent discharges of contaminated runoff, catastrophic flooding, and near-complete severance of the hydrologic cycle. Recent advancements in stormwater best management practices aim to push urban water social-ecological systems into a more sustainable regime that reconnects the hydrologic cycle and utilizes ecosystem services, such as infiltration and evapotranspiration, to improve the quality of urban and suburban water bodies. Collectively, these approaches are termed green infrastructure. As a decentralized approach, green infrastructure requires implementation on, as well as access to, property throughout a watershed, which poses particular governance challenges for watersheds where most land is held privately. We argue that green infrastructure on private property has a strong potential for creating a more sustainable regime through Citizen Stormwater Management, a participatory form of governance with strong citizen influence and engagement. We develop a classification scheme to assess policy instruments' degree of government intervention, citizen participation, and engagement. The paper explores how various policy instruments encourage Citizen Stormwater Management across the United States on both public and private property. We then conduct a textual analysis of ten years of publicly available data from Onondaga County, New York (USA) to assess the implementation of applicable policy instruments. Findings indicate that incentive-based (carrots) along with outreach (sermon) policies can play an important role when regulatory instruments (sticks) are lacking.

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Section: Case Study: Onondaga County's Save the Rain Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Lieberherr

Green²

2018

Sustainability

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“…al 2015, Partelow and Boda 2015. The revised framework we presented highlights key factors of GI adoption that can be further explored using various theories and models to assess outcomes of interest related to urban stormwater SESs seeking to adopt GI technologies (Flynn et al 2014). Tiers may be added or omitted to accommodate particular theories and research questions.…”

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“…The spatial and temporal distribution of stormwater volumes within an urban setting places clear boundaries on which technologies should be considered and where they should be situated in an urban setting (Askarizadeh et al 2015). Additionally, the criteria used to select stormwater management technologies, such as relative costeffectiveness or ecological performance measures, will often strongly influence enforcement officials' decision-making processes (Flynn et al 2014). Expansion of these attribute categories may be necessary when considering research questions related to the design of specific stormwater technologies or the influence of particular outcome criteria.…”

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“…Degree to which actors make use of the cumulative body of knowledge, practices and beliefs evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmissions about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and with their environment Berkes (2012) † , Mbilinyi et al, (2005) ‡ , Flynn et al (2014) ‡ , Winz et al (2014) …”

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Adapting the social-ecological system framework for urban stormwater management: the case of green infrastructure adoption

Flynn¹,

Davidson²

2016

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ABSTRACT. Stormwater management has long been a critical societal and environmental challenge for communities. An increasing number of municipalities are turning to novel approaches such as green infrastructure to develop more sustainable stormwater management systems. However, there is a need to better understand the technological decision-making processes that lead to specific outcomes within urban stormwater governance systems. We used the social-ecological system (SES) framework to build a classification system for identifying significant variables that influence urban stormwater governance decisions related to green infrastructure adoption. To adapt the framework, we relied on findings from observations at national stormwater meetings in combination with a systematic literature review on influential factors related to green infrastructure adoption. We discuss our revisions to the framework that helped us understand the decision by municipal governments to adopt green infrastructure. Remaining research needs and challenges are discussed regarding the development of an urban stormwater SES framework as a classification tool for knowledge accumulation and synthesis.

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“…Many cities are expanding use of green stormwater infrastructure to reduce runoff volumes during heavy rain events, reduce the risk of CSOs and potentially improve water quality [99][100][101]. Green infrastructure provides some capacity for pollutant removal from stormwater [101] and for receiving and treating CSOs (e.g. constructed wetlands) [102].…”

Section: (A) Sea-level Rise and Coastal Stormsmentioning

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Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities

Hobbie

Grimm

2020

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

194

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Managing and adapting to climate change in urban areas will become increasingly important as urban populations grow, especially because unique features of cities amplify climate change impacts. High impervious cover exacerbates impacts of climate warming through urban heat island effects and of heavy rainfall by magnifying runoff and flooding. Concentration of human settlements along rivers and coastal zones increases exposure of people and infrastructure to climate change hazards, often disproportionately affecting those who are least prepared. Nature-based strategies (NBS), which use living organisms, soils and sediments, and/or landscape features to reduce climate change hazards, hold promise as being more flexible, multi-functional and adaptable to an uncertain and non-stationary climate future than traditional approaches. Nevertheless, future research should address the effectiveness of NBS for reducing climate change impacts and whether they can be implemented at scales appropriate to climate change hazards and impacts. Further, there is a need for accurate and comprehensive cost–benefit analyses that consider disservices and co-benefits, relative to grey alternatives, and how costs and benefits are distributed across different communities. NBS are most likely to be effective and fair when they match the scale of the challenge, are implemented with input from diverse voices and are appropriate to specific social, cultural, ecological and technological contexts. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions’.

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Transformational Changes Associated with Sustainable Stormwater Management Practices in Onondaga County, New York

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Green Infrastructure through Citizen Stormwater Management: Policy Instruments, Participation and Engagement

Adapting the social-ecological system framework for urban stormwater management: the case of green infrastructure adoption

Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities

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