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ISBN:
Category : Runoff
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Reducing Stormwater Costs Through Low Impact Development (LID) Strategies and Practices
Author: Low Impact Development
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979970610
Category : Ecological landscape design
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
The manual introduces general audiences to designing landscapes for urban stormwater runoff -- a primary source of watershed pollution. The goal is to motivate awareness and implementation of LID in a wide cross-section of stakeholders, from property owners to municipal governments that regulate infrastructure development. The manual provides a holistic framework in which a novice homeowner and an experienced developer can each find an equally tranformative role to enact.
Low-impact Development
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ISBN:
Category : Real estate development
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309125391
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
Costs of Urban Stormwater Control
Author: James P. HeaneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rain and rainfall
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Low Impact Development Technology
Author: Michael L. ClarPublisher:
ISBN: 9780784413883
Category : Sanitary engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Selected papers from the 2011 Low Impact Development Conference, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25-28, 2011. Sponsored by the Low Impact Development Committee of the Urban Water Resources Research Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE As federal, state, and local governments realize that traditional approaches to stormwater management are not achieving the desired environmental protection goals, they are increasingly adopting low impact development (LID) technology as the preferred approach to stormwater management in land development and redevelopment. Low Impact Development Technology: Design Methods and Case Studies contains 22 papers that address a wide range of LID design applications and includes a number of practical case studies. Topics include: rain gardens and bioretention systems; green streets and hardscapes; green roofs; and watershed restoration. A companion volume, Low Impact Development Technology: Implementation and Economics, is also available. Both collections will be of interest to engineers, land planners, and government officials working on stormwater management and land use policy.
Low Impact Development Technology: Design Methods and Case Studies
Author: Low Impact Development 2010: Redefining Water in the City (Proceedings of the 2010 International Low Impact Development Conference).
Author: American Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780784473399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems
Author: Xiaochang C. WangPublisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 9781789060751
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Building water-wise cities is a pressing need nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is mainly due to the limitation of the available water resources and aging infrastructure to meet the needs of adapting to social and environmental changes and for urban liveability. This is the first book to provide comprehensive insights into theoretical, systematic, and engineering aspects of water-wise cities with a broad coverage of global issues. The book aims to (1) provide a theoretical framework of water-wise cities and associated sustainable water systems including key concepts and principles, (2) provide a brand-new thinking on the design and management of sustainable urban water systems of various scales towards a paradigm shift under the resource and environmental constraints, and (3) provide a technological perspective with successful case studies of technology selection, integration, and optimization on the “fit-for-purpose” basis.
Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management
Author: Thomas H. CahillPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470096756
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Sustainable Stormwater Management introduces engineers and designers to ideas and methods for managing stormwater in a more ecologically sustainable fashion. It provides detailed information on the design process, engineering details and calculations, and construction concerns. Concepts are illustrated with real-world examples, complete with photographs. This guide integrates the perspectives of landscape architects, planners, and scientists for a multi-disciplinary approach. This is an enlightening reference for professionals working in stormwater management, from engineers and designers to developers to regulators, and a great text for college courses.
