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In Blue-Green Cities, Colin Thorne and the team of authors, demonstrate how urban flood risk management based on Blue-Green approaches and infrastructure can deliver both sustainable flood risk management and multiple co-benefits that are valued by…
In Blue-Green Cities, Colin Thorne and the team of authors, demonstrate how urban flood risk management based on Blue-Green approaches and infrastructure can deliver both sustainable flood risk management and multiple co-benefits that are valued by urban communities. Cities world-wide are seeking novel solutions to problems with aging ‘grey’ drainage systems that are unable to cope with climate change-related increases in urban flooding. A Blue-Green City finds solutions by combining its management of urban green spaces with upgrading existing drainage systems to create integrated stormwater management systems. This challenges policy makers and planners to overcome barriers to innovation, engineers to model, design and implement Blue-Green systems fit for an uncertain future, social scientists to identify the preferences and values of the beneficiary communities, and environmental economists to reliably evaluate the co-benefits of Blue-Green solutions. We address these issues by synthesising the outcomes of the Blue-Green Cities Research Project (EPSRC award EP/K013661/1) to demonstrate how urban flood risk management that is both sustainable and resilient can be achieved using innovative approaches. This book reveals how cities can enhance their flood risk management systems while simultaneously delivering
Colin Thorne is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Nottingham, which has campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia.
01. Urban Flood Risk Management: the Blue-Green Advantage - Emily O’Donnell and Colin Thorne 02. Overcoming barriers to innovation in urban flood risk management - Emily O’Donnell, Shaun Maskrey, Maggie Skenderian, Helen O’Brien and Jonathan Vann 03. Coupled surface/sub-surface modelling to investigate the utility of Blue-Green infrastructure - Chris Kilsby, Vassilis Glenis and Robert Bertsch 04. Two-dimensionsal, hydrodynamic modelling to investigate the utility of Blue-Green approaches - Sangaralingam Ahilan, Nigel Wright and Mingfu Guan 05. Performance of storm water treatments trains incorporating Blue-Green and grey infrastructure - Scott Arthur and Brian D’Arcy 06. Restoration of urban streams to create Blue-Green assets and corridors - Jenny Mant, Colin Thorne, Josh Burch and Marc Naura 07. Understanding citizen and community behaviours and preferences - Jessica Lamond, Glyn Everett and Kit England 08. Evaluating the multiple co-benefits generated by Blue-Green spaces, corridors and infrastructure - Richard Fenner and Chris Digman 09. Applying the flood footprint concept to calculate the full costs of urban floods - David Mendoza-Tinoco, Dabo Guan, Malcolm Morgan, Richard Fenner, Colin Thorne and Emily O’Donnell 10. Towards a Blue-Green future: the Newcastle declaration, national policy and progress – Colin Thorne