Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system

Everard, Mark; McInnes, Rob; Gouda, Hazem

Abstract

Society is moving from management addressing single or few outcomes towards recognition that all interventions have systemic impacts. Water management in urban environments presents particular challenges related to growing populations in finite land areas. Several sustainable drainage system (SuDS) techniques, from drainage-specific approaches to solutions potentially addressing multiple benefits, were considered in terms of ramifications for ecosystem service outcomes, represented using a ‘traffic lights’ coding. Narrowly-framed drainage solutions, often necessary in dense developments, omit or have negative implications for ecosystem services. Conversely, detention basins and constructed wetlands potentially offer broader ecosystem service outcomes. All ecosystem services have to be considered in design on a context-specific basis to optimize benefits and avoid negative outcomes. Modification of decision-support models to consider ecosystem services promotes optimization of net societal benefits, also providing confidence for developers and regulators.

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 28, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 17, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SUDs
• ISBN: 9781118897706
• Keywords: sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), constructed wetlands, ecosystem services, urban water management
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/918645
• Publisher URL: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118897706.html
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Copyright John Wiley and Sons 2016
• Contract Date: Sep 28, 2016