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Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage (2016)
Book Chapter
Lamond, J. (2016). Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage. In S. Charlesworth, & C. Booth (Eds.), Sustainable Surface Water Management (235-243). London: Wiley-Blackwells

This chapter explored relevant literature and touched on a variety of tools that can contribute to the estimation of the costs of implementing and maintaining SuDS, and the evaluation of flood damage reduction, stormwater management and other benefit... Read More about Whole life costing and multiple benefits of sustainable drainage.

Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS (2016)
Book
Charlesworth, S. M., & Booth, C. A. (2016). Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb

This book emphasises the SuDS philosophy and elaborates the sustainable surface water management agenda with a wealth of insights that are brought together through the experts who have contributed. By integrating physical and environmental sciences,... Read More about Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS.

Dual-Purpose Rainwater Harvesting System Design (2016)
Book Chapter
Melville-Shreeve, P., Ward, S., & Butler, D. (2016). Dual-Purpose Rainwater Harvesting System Design. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth (Eds.), Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SUDS (205-217). Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118897690.ch15

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. All rights reserved. This chapter reviews rainwater harvesting (RwH) and sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), as well as existing approaches to integrate RwH and SuDS in England and Wales. A new design method is propo... Read More about Dual-Purpose Rainwater Harvesting System Design.

Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil (2016)
Journal Article
Akinwumi, I. I., Booth, C. A., Diwa, D., & Mills, P. (2016). Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil. Proceedings of the ICE - Geotechnical Engineering, 169(4), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeen.15.00108

© 2016, Thomas Telford Services Ltd. All rights reserved. Crude-oil-contaminated soils are usually considered unsuitable construction materials for earthworks. This paper presents an experimental investigation of the effects of applying Portland ceme... Read More about Cement stabilisation of crude-oil-contaminated soil.

Stakeholder perceptions of the benefits and barriers of implementing environmental management systems in the Nigerian construction industry (2016)
Journal Article
Owolana, V. O., & Booth, C. A. (2016). Stakeholder perceptions of the benefits and barriers of implementing environmental management systems in the Nigerian construction industry. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management, 24(2), 79-89. https://doi.org/10.3846/16486897.2015.1127251

© 2016 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press. This study investigates stakeholder opinions of the major benefits and barriers of Environmental Management Systems (EMS) to the Nigerian construction industry, and the perceived issues to E... Read More about Stakeholder perceptions of the benefits and barriers of implementing environmental management systems in the Nigerian construction industry.

Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices (2016)
Book Chapter
Everett, G. (2016). Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth (Eds.), Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SuDS (285-298). Chichester, United Kingdom: Wiley

This chapter considers the centrality of human perceptions, and so behaviour, to the sustainability of SuDS. Research shows a lack of engagement with flood preparedness and flood risk mitigation (FRM) in the public as a whole, and many people are ave... Read More about Public perceptions of sustainable drainage devices.

Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system (2016)
Book Chapter
Everard, M., McInnes, R., & Gouda, H. (2016). Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system. In C. Booth, & S. Charlesworth, S.M. (Eds.), Sustainable Surface Water Management: A Handbook for SUDs. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell

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... Read More about Progress with integration of ecosystem services in sustainable drainage system.

Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, S., Proverbs, D., & Lamond, J. (2016). Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding. In S. Charlesworth, & C. Booth (Eds.), Sustainable surface water management (245-258). London: Wiley-Blackwells

Green roof retrofit is seen to be to be an important part of climate adaptation strategies for CBDs generally and in Melbourne in particular. Retrofit of perrmeable paving is also an important SUDs approach within crowded CBDs. The potential for miti... Read More about Green roof and permeable paving retrofit to mitigate pluvial flooding.