Overview
- Provides valuable information facilitating the understanding of storm water management and flood mitigation
- Forms a basis for the development of a framework for the implementation of integrated and optimised stormwater management strategies
- Aims to mitigate the adverse impacts of the expanding urban water footprint
- Features chapters on global past and present storm water practices
- Discusses global initiatives and describes the management styles of storm water and flooding
Part of the book series: Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future (AESE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together the experiences of engineers and scientists from Australia and the United Kingdom providing the current status on the management of stormwater and flooding in urban areas and suggesting ways forward. It forms a basis for the development of a framework for the implementation of integrated and optimised storm water management strategies and aims to mitigate the adverse impacts of the expanding urban water footprint. Among other topics it also features management styles of stormwater and flooding and describes biodiversity and ecosystem services in relation to the management of stormwater and the mitigation of floods. Furthermore, it places an emphasis on sustainable storm water management measures.
Population growth, urbanisation and climate change will pose significant challenges to engineers, scientists, medical practitioners, policy makers and practitioners of several other disciplines. If we consider environmental and water engineers, they will have to face challenges in designing smart and efficient water systems which are robust and resilient to overcome shrinking green spaces, increased urban heat islands, damages to natural waterways due to flooding caused by increased stormwater flow. This work provides valuable information for practitioners and students at both senior undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Stormwater and Flood Management
Book Subtitle: Enhancing the Liveability of Cities
Editors: Veeriah Jegatheesan, Ashantha Goonetilleke, John van Leeuwen, Jaya Kandasamy, Doug Warner, Baden Myers, Muhammed Bhuiyan, Kevin Spence, … Geoffrey Parker
Series Title: Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11818-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11817-4Published: 12 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11818-1Published: 02 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2570-2165
Series E-ISSN: 2570-2173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 199
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Water and Health, Hydrology/Water Resources, Climate Change