Attribute-based intervention development for increasing resilience of urban drainage systems

Sweetapple, Chris; Fu, Guangtao; Farmani, Raziyeh; Meng, Fanlin; Ward, Sarah; Butler, David

Abstract

© IWA Publishing 2018. Resilience building commonly focuses on attributes such as redundancy. Whilst this may be effective in some cases, provision of specific attributes does not guarantee resilient performance and research is required to determine the suitability of such approaches. This study uses 250 combined sewer system virtual case studies to explore the effects of two attribute-based interventions (increasing distributed storage and reducing imperviousness) on performance-based resilience measures. These are found to provide improvement in performance under system failure in the majority of case studies, but it is also shown that attribute-based intervention development can result in reduced resilience.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 4, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Feb 19, 2018
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Oct 31, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 19, 2019
• Journal: Water Science and Technology
• Print ISSN: 0273-1223
• Publisher: IWA Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1757-1764
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2018.070
• Keywords: global resilience analysis, intervention, urban drainage system, virtual case studies
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/870391
• Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2018.070
• Additional Information: Additional Information : ©IWA Publishing 2018. The definitive peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Water Science & Technology, 77, 6, 1757-1764 (2018) DOI: 10.2166/wst.2018.070 and is available at www.iwapublishing.com.
• Contract Date: Oct 31, 2018