Optimizing Green Infrastructure Design and Placement for Integrated Urban Watershed Management
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 6579
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban hydrology and hydraulics; stormwater management; data-model integration
Interests: stormwater management; machine learning; hydrological modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Green infrastructure (GI) has gained traction as a preferred stormwater management practice for its ability to mimic natural hydrologic conditions and remove stormwater pollutants. However, as a decentralized infrastructure, the performance of GI is highly variable and dependent on the local context. At the same time, trends in land development and climate variability can mask the system-wide benefit of GI and increase the difficulty of detecting and evaluating the integrated, watershed-scale hydrologic impact of GI. The emergence of data-driven analytics, advanced hydrologic models, and optimization techniques provides advanced tools to address this challenge. The objective of this Special Issue is to synthesize recent advances in data, instrumentation, modelling, and analysis focused on optimizing the integrated, system-wide benefit of GI at watershed scales. Interdisciplinary research is particularly welcomed.
Dr. Kun Zhang
Dr. Yang Yang
Dr. Gustavo H. Merten
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban watershed: green infrastructure
- nature-based solutions
- stormwater management
- stormwater runoff
- hydrologic modelling
- machine learning
- optimization
- low impact development
- sustainable drainage systems
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