Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 4(2), С. 87 - 101

Опубликована: Янв. 31, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Sponge city strategy and application of pavement materials in sponge city

Journal of Cleaner Production, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 303, С. 127022 - 127022

Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2021

Язык: Английский

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Pathways for adapting tourism to climate change in an urban destination – Evidences based on thermal conditions for the Porto Metropolitan Area (Portugal)

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 315, С. 115161 - 115161

Опубликована: Май 5, 2022

Язык: Английский

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International Perceptions of Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Comparison across Four Cities

Water, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 13(4), С. 544 - 544

Опубликована: Фев. 20, 2021

Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) is recognised internationally as an approach for managing urban water challenges while enhancing society and the environment through provision of multiple co-benefits. This research employed online survey to investigate perceptions BGI held by professional stakeholders in four cities with established programs: Newcastle (UK), Ningbo (China), Portland (Oregon USA), Rotterdam (The Netherlands) (64 respondents). The results show that associated having too much (e.g., pluvial fluvial flood risk, quality deterioration) are driving management agendas. Perceptions governance drivers implementation, leaders, strategies improving uptake, markedly different reflecting varied local, regional national responsibilities implementation. In addition water, universally valued its positive impact on residents’ life; however, a transformative change policy practice towards truly multifunctional needed optimise delivery benefits address each city’s priorities strategic objectives. Changes improve e.g., increasing awareness policy-makers BGI, has international relevance other their journeys sustainable blue-green futures.

Язык: Английский

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The potential for nature-based solutions to combat the freshwater biodiversity crisis

PLOS Water, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 2(6), С. e0000126 - e0000126

Опубликована: Июнь 8, 2023

Enthusiasm for and investments in nature-based solutions (NBS) as sustainable strategies climate adaptation infrastructure development is building among governments, the scientific community, engineering practitioners. This particularly true water security water-related risks. In a freshwater context, NBS may provide much-needed “win-wins” society environment that could benefit imperiled biodiversity. Such conservation benefits are urgently needed given ongoing biodiversity crisis, with declines species their habitats occurring at more than twice rate of marine or terrestrial systems. However, to make meaningful contributions safeguarding biodiversity, clear links must be established between applications priorities conservation. this paper, we link common six priority actions life by science n highlight research knowledge will necessary bring bear on crisis. particular, illustrate how can play direct role restoring degraded aquatic floodplain ecosystems, enhancing in-stream quality, improving hydrological connectivity ecosystems. System-level monitoring ensure deliver promised ecosystems species.

Язык: Английский

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The role of different sustainable urban drainage systems in removing microplastics from urban runoff: A review

Journal of Cleaner Production, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 411, С. 137197 - 137197

Опубликована: Апрель 27, 2023

Urban runoff is considered an important source of microplastic pollution. This review provides in-depth analysis studies that assess the role sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) as nature-based solutions, to tackle this worldwide problem. Sedimentation-based systems, such wetlands or ponds, and filtration-based bioretention cells gardens, well permeable pavements have been shown effectively retain a significant number MPs. Nevertheless, it efficiencies can be enhanced through some design improvements, proposed in review. Polypropylene, Polyethylene terephthalate, Polystyrene, are most frequent abundant polymers runoff, due high consumption wide variety products activities. Smaller particles fibers challenging fraction. Maximum rainfall intensity, antecedent dry days, depth, land use, dwelling density, imperviousness, hydraulic loading, SUDS age, presence forebays gross pollutant traps influential variables on abundance MPs studies, although not always statistically significant. The assessment fate by indicates they more concentrated sediment filter media near inlet, shallower layers. existence similar behaviour correlation between total suspended solids concentration, makes them potential indicator A variability detection methods reporting data format has found, which difficult draw global conclusions. Measures reduce pollution areas subjects for further research finally suggested.

Язык: Английский

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Mapping the Research Landscape of Nature-Based Solutions in Urbanism

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 13(7), С. 3876 - 3876

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2021

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are an innovative concept that mimics the processes of natural ecosystems, popularized principally in European Union. With a substantial body literature amassed since term’s inception 2015, there is need to systematically review existing identify overarching gaps and trends, according disciplinary focus, geographic scope, key themes, direct future research inquiry policy recommendations. This consists bibliometric analysis thematic for NBS studies urbanism. were found relate strongly with other concepts ‘Ecosystem Services’, ‘Green Infrastructure’, ‘Climate Change’, ‘Risk management Resilience’, which align four major goals set by Commission. Within scholarship, various sub-themes have emerged, namely, ‘Greening’, ‘Urban Development’, ‘Water’, ‘Wellbeing’, ‘Governance’. Furthermore, we illustrate amount focus been unevenly distributed worldwide. Analysis emerging trends shows recent increase topics, such as adaptive governance NBS, incorporation social justice sustainability transitions. Based on assessment extant literature, offer some recommendations direction fields.

Язык: Английский

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Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Areas: A European Analysis

Applied Sciences, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 13(1), С. 168 - 168

Опубликована: Дек. 23, 2022

Currently, the world is facing resource scarcity as environmental impacts of human intervention continue to intensify. To facilitate conservation and recovery ecosystems transform cities into more sustainable, intelligent, regenerative, resilient environments, concepts circularity nature-based solutions (NbS) are applied. The role NbS within green infrastructure in urban resilience recognised, considerable efforts being made by European Commission (EC) achieve sustainability goals. However, it not fully evidenced, an integrated way, which main implemented environment their effects. This article aims identify most recent applied environments at level analyse integration different measures innovative analysis based on real cases. For this purpose, work presents a literature review 69 projects 24 cities, well 8 actions 3 spatial scales implementation district level. Therefore, there great potential for adoption buildings surroundings, still prioritized, given lack effective monitoring effects NbS.

Язык: Английский

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Integrating biodiversity into financial decision‐making: Challenges and four principles

Business Strategy and the Environment, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 32(4), С. 1619 - 1633

Опубликована: Июль 19, 2022

Abstract Many financing decisions continue to exacerbate global biodiversity loss, despite a growing understanding of the economic and financial risks loss. Applying Coase's decision‐making theory based on cost, revenues, risks, article analyzes literature current developments finance green evaluate why is incentivized ignore mostly fails maximize conservation or nature‐positive finance. Based identified gaps, develops four principles integrate into decision‐making: (1) regulation must set limits nature's exploitation, as only values limited aspects nature “bankable,” while destruction other parts are without negative positive value investor; (2) biodiversity‐related risk evaluation needs focus local due impacts dependencies (in comparison, e.g., climate finance's risks); (3) scale utilizing its secondary benefits, particularly in conjunction with finance; (4) development be co‐led championed by decision‐makers. This contributes emerging for sustainable implications policy makers standard setters.

Язык: Английский

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Constructed Wetlands as a Solution for Sustainable Sanitation: A Comprehensive Review on Integrating Climate Change Resilience and Circular Economy

Water, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 14(20), С. 3232 - 3232

Опубликована: Окт. 13, 2022

About eighty percent of wastewater is discharged into the environment untreated. Many challenges are decelerating solving global sanitation problem, such as financial limitations and lack technical capacities. Parallel to this, many countries facing a growing demand on their limited water resources. Higher availability leads over-abstraction deterioration in quality In this situation, can be new source. Therefore, there interest finding low-cost, easy-to-operate sustainable solutions. Constructed wetlands (CWs) recent years have proved capability sector an appropriate system different contexts, CWs ability treat several types wastewaters for decades. Several benefits facts, low construction operational costs CWs, low-energy, less requirements, raised interests treatment technology. studies investigated suitability based sustainability indices (technical, social, environmental, etc.). paper, comprehensive review covers definition, types, processes, criteria, limitations, CWs. The paper also focuses climate change resilience circular economic approach under respectively.

Язык: Английский

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