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