SUSTAINABLE SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT
A HANDBOOK FOR SUDS
Water management is a key environmental issue for controlling floods and reducing droughts; sustainable drainage systems provide a clear alternative to traditional hard infrastructure.
The built environment has become more susceptible to flooding because urbanisation has meant that landscapes that were once porous and allowed surface water to infiltrate, have been stripped of vegetation and soil and have been covered with impermeable roads, pavements and buildings.
Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SuDS emphasises the SuDS philosophy and explains the sustainable surface water management agenda with a wealth of insights brought together through the experts who have contributed chapters. By integrating physical and environmental sciences, and combining social, economic and political considerations, the book provides a unique resource for a wide range of policy specialists, scientists, engineers and subject enthusiasts.
It brings together experts across the whole field of SuDS from the social to the hard physical sciences in order to both highlight the breadth of the subject itself, but also to show the flexibility and multiple benefits that such an approach can bring to the management of surface water. By integrating the physical and environmental sciences, and combining social, economic and political considerations, a unique resource has been produced.
This approach addresses issues as diverse as flooding, water quality, amenity and biodiversity, together with the mitigation of, and adaptation to, global climate change, human health benefits and reduction in energy use. In straightened economic times, efficiency and efficacy of approaches are paramount; value for money, payback and whole life costing underlie all undertakings, and SuDS is no exception.
Many of the chapters have a UK focus, but globally the UK (and particularly England and Wales) lag behind such countries as the USA and New Zealand. Hence, chapters are included to cover issues from around the world, alongside particular designs associated with the implementation of SuDS in tropical areas, problems with retrofitting SuDS devices, SuDS modelling, water harvesting in drought-stricken countries using SuDS and the inclusion of SuDS in the climate change strategies of many large cities. Such issues and technologies are far-reaching and, as such, can easily be extended to other European and global nations.
Autorentext
The Editors
Susanne M. Charlesworth is Professor of Urban Physical Geography at Coventry University in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience.
Colin A. Booth is Associate Head of Research and Scholarship for the School of Architecture and the Built Environment and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Klappentext
SUSTAINABLE SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT
A HANDBOOK FOR SUDS
Water management is a key environmental issue for controlling floods and reducing droughts; sustainable drainage systems provide a clear alternative to traditional hard infrastructure.
The built environment has become more susceptible to flooding because urbanisation has meant that landscapes that were once porous and allowed surface water to in ltrate, have been stripped of vegetation and soil and have been covered with impermeable roads, pavements and buildings.
Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SuDS emphasises the SuDS philosophy and explains the sustainable surface water management agenda with a wealth of insights brought together through the experts who have contributed chapters. By integrating physical and environmental sciences, and combining social, economic and political considerations, the book provides a unique resource for a wide range of policy specialists, scientists, engineers and subject enthusiasts.
It brings together experts across the whole field of SuDS from the social to the hard physical sciences in order to both highlight the breadth of the subject itself, but also to show the flexibility and multiple bene ts that such an approach can bring to the management of surface water. By integrating the physical and environmental sciences, and combining social, economic and political considerations, a unique resource has been produced.
This approach addresses issues as diverse as flooding, water quality, amenity and biodiversity, together with the mitigation of, and adaptation to, global climate change, human health bene ts and reduction in energy use. In straightened economic times, ef ciency and ef cacy of approaches are paramount; value for money, payback and whole life costing underlie all undertakings, and SuDS is no exception.
Many of the chapters have a UK focus, but globally the UK (and particularly England and Wales) lag behind such countries as the USA and New Zealand. Hence, chapters are included to cover issues from around the world, alongside particular designs associated with the implementation of SuDS in tropical areas, problems with retro tting SuDS devices, SuDS modelling, water harvesting in droughtstricen countries using SuDS and the inclusion of SuDS in the climate change strategies of many large cities. Such issues and technologies are far-reaching and, as such, can easily be extended to other European and global nations.
Zusammenfassung
Sustainable Surface Water Management: a handbook for SUDS addresses issues as diverse as flooding, water quality, amenity and biodiversity but also mitigation of, and adaptation to, global climate change, human health benefits and reduction in energy use. Chapters are included to cover issues from around the world, but they also address particular designs associated with the implementation of SUDS in tropical areas, problems with retrofitting SUDS devices, SUDS modelling, water harvesting in drought-stricken countries using SUDS and the inclusion of SUDS in the climate change strategies of such cities as Tokyo, New York and Strasbourg.
Inhalt
List of Contributors xv
About the Editors xix
Section 1 Introduction to the Book 1
Chapter 1 An Overture of Sustainable Surface Water Management 3
Colin A. Booth and Susanne M. Charlesworth
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Surface Water Management 3
1.3 Sustainable Surface Water Management 5
1.4 Organisation of the Book 5
References 9
Section 2 Sustainable Surface Water Management in Context 11
Chapter 2 Back to the Future? History and Contemporary Application of Sustainable Drainage Techniques 13
Susanne M. Charlesworth, Luis Angel Sanudo Fontaneda and Larry W. Mays
2.1 Introduction 13
2.2 'Sustainability'? 14
2.3 Rainwater Harvesting in Antiquity 15
2.4 Water Quality Improvement 19
2.5 Water Quantity Reduction: SubSurface Drainage 23
2.6 Water Storage 24
2.7 Reduction in Water Demand: Greywater Recycling 24
2.8 Reducing Water Velocity 25
2.9 NonStructural Approaches to Sustainable Water Management 26
2.10 Conclusions 28
References 28
Chapter 3 Surface Water Strategy, Policy and Legislation 31
Frank Warwick
3.1 Introduction 31
3.2 Legislative Hierarchies 32
3.3 Case Study The United Kingdom 33
3.4 Comparison of UK Approaches with Other Countries 41
3.5 Conclusions 42
References 42
Chapter 4 Sustainable Drainage Systems: Operation and Maintenance 45
Neil Berwick
4.1 Introduction 45
4.2 What is Operation and Maintenance and Why is it Important? 46
4.3 Inspection, Reporting …