Practitioner Perceptions of Mainstreaming Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS): A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Direct Versus Indirect Barriers

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(5), P. 2093 - 2093

Published: Feb. 28, 2025

Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) represent an opportunity to use stormwater management as a mechanism deliver multiple co-benefits. They can play key role in urban climate change adaptation, restoring nature, and increasing health social wellbeing. Despite these benefits, their uptake is limited with many practitioners reporting barriers implementation. To explore barriers, define actions unlock scaling, our mixed-methods study explored comparative perceptions of SuDS within the UK. Survey research (n = 48) provided overview broad experiences across range practitioners. Main described were access funds, difficulty retrofitting, cost maintain, ownership SuDS. issues having least available information support scaling conflicts corporate identity, collaboration between various stakeholders. Follow-up interviews 6) among contrasting subset survey respondents: those who experienced highest number perceived fewest From interviews, themes identified that categorized for implementations: people-related elements; limiting practicalities; informational factors. The findings differentiated indirect (i.e., soft such individual practitioner knowledge capacity gaps linked poor exchange) direct hard including specific data more universally). importance differentiating knowledge-based (indirect) be unlocked by improved information-transfer solutions actual (direct) need further considered approaches generation new overcome highlighted. Evidence-based policy recommendations governmental SuDS-based organisations are presented.

Language: Английский

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Interaction between formal and informal actors in the shadow of policymaking: Case studies of community-based urban pluvial flood risk management in Pearl River Delta cities

Journal of Urban Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(4), P. 609 - 623

Published: July 17, 2024

Policymakers increasingly integrate urban pluvial flood risk management into multiple strategies, acknowledging that local contexts and the actors involved are crucial. However, literature on decision-making processes of community-based sheds little light how formal informal relate to each other. This paper contributes filling this research gap by exploring interdependency between authorities community residents from a multilevel governance perspective. Two cases, based in Pearl River Delta Cities, analysed explore actors' interactions locally Chinese Sponge City Program, national programme for management. The comparative study two cases leads four conclusions. First, Program at level can be viewed as governance. Second, triggered goal set government contexts, see benefit integrating an integrated area-specific plan, emphasizing importance institutional assertiveness. Third, tensions synergies exist interaction process will have recognized embraced and, where necessary, converted constraining enabling factors. Fourth, barriers still dominate because lack support cross-boundary cooperation public participation. To span these boundaries, policymakers should more open changing perspective 'planning people' with people'.

Language: Английский

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Conceptual framework to incorporate drainage solutions in the urban open space system

Frontiers in Water, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 6

Published: Oct. 2, 2024

Cities are increasingly dealing with challenges regarding the negative impact of rapid and mismanaged urbanization. Therefore, city planning must cope natural environment limitations, seeking a balance between human activities well-functioning hydrologic cycle. This work aims to present conceptual framework able properly integrate stormwater dynamics into open spaces system in functional way, establishing Hydrological Interest Area, HIA, structure urban expansion integrated respecting watershed processes. The initial step is define primarily consisting that can be used for supporting drainage functions order land use process. delimitation offers background interpreting three arches, especially covering upstream, mid-reach downstream areas basin, guiding design set flood mitigation interventions focusing on Blue-Green Infrastructure. To illustrate validate proposed methodological framework, evaluated by modeling tool, using hydrological-hydrodynamic cell-model. A case study was driven Bambu Watershed, rapidly developing area municipality Maricá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. intervention includes an scenario low development behavior alongside four parks: upstream park reservoirs, two multifunctional floodable parks, dedicated lagoon restoration. plan complements riverbed modifications designed enhance water discharge. simulation showed significant reduction depths consequent decrease exposure buildings roads, most critical region watershed. highlights importance approach serves as robust foundation controlling proposing projects.

Language: Английский

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Using Water-Sensitive City Factors to Evaluate the Performance of Water Management Projects at a Global Scale

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 150(12)

Published: Sept. 23, 2024

Language: Английский

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Enablers and challenges of Smart Heritage implementation – the case of Chinatown Melbourne

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 27, 2024

Purpose Arising from the concept of a Smart City, Heritage has emerged as significant aspect heritage conservation. It is viewed means to enhance cultural sustainability by strengthening identity precincts. Nevertheless, adoption solutions in Australian precincts for purpose development still relatively limited. This study focuses on Chinatown Melbourne case unveil how can influence precinct’s and identify enablers challenges such implementation. Design/methodology/approach The involves interviews with eight professionals community development, practitioners built-environment discipline experts conservation Melbourne. Findings outcomes this offer practical insights facilitating an urban site, along providing recommendations other considering part their strategy. Originality/value offers novel examination implementation precinct, addressing both challenges. advances discussion focusing identity, underexplored studies provides framework future global comparisons.

Language: Английский

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Pathways toward Water Sensitive Cities: An Educational Approach through Geography Learning

JURNAL PENDIDIKAN ILMU SOSIAL, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 32(2), P. 183 - 196

Published: Nov. 15, 2023

The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have seventeen global goals for the sustainability of human life on planet Earth. One these is to ensure access water and sanitation all. This article aims formulate a grand design Geography learning as part social studies taught in school. context research east coast Aceh Province. method used this paper systematic literature review through books, scientific journals, reports from several community-based development programs. formulated within ten years with three phases, namely (1) Acceleration; (2) Evaluation, (3) Education. results are expected contribute management resources coastal area East while at same time increasing implementation Merdeka Belajar (Independence Learning) policy every level education that oriented toward local natural resources.

Language: Английский

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