Connecting hydrology cycle with the strategies of stormwater management for sustainable environmental planning and design
The central idea of strategies of stormwater management is about the environmental sustainability. The environmental sustainability can be achieved by synthesizing the strategies with the hydrology cycle. The reason is strategies of stormwater management are about the process to replicate the hyd...
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| Language: | English |
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WorldConferences.net
2015
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/72244/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72244/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72244/1/72244_Connecting%20hydrology%20cycle%20with%20the%20strategies.pdf |
| Summary: | The central idea of strategies of stormwater management is about the environmental sustainability.
The environmental sustainability can be achieved by synthesizing the strategies with the hydrology
cycle. The reason is strategies of stormwater management are about the process to replicate the
hydrology cycle. The connection between the strategies and hydrology cycle are crucial to be
analysed and highlighted to help designer in understanding and making accurate planning and
design of the strategies to reduce the quantity and to improve the quality of stormwater. Thus, the
aim of this study is to analyse the strategies of sustainable stormwater management with the
hydrology cycle. Two objectives were formulated: (i) to identify the strategies of sustainable
stormwater management, and (ii) to analyse the connection of the identified strategies with
hydrology cycle. In this qualitative approach study, three methods were applied for data collection -
online journal, forum discussion and e-mail interview. The collected data was analysed based on five
steps of descriptive comparative analysis. Subsequently, 17 strategies have been identified and listed
according to the priority connection with 7 hydrology cycles - interception, infiltration, surface runoff,
depression storage, evapotranspiration, groundwater flow and interflow. The strategies were
synthesized with hydrology cycle as an analysis factor of environmental sustainability to list the
strategies in priority order. The list of the strategies are infiltration basin, barrier system, greenways,
stream reclamation, vegetated surface channel, rainwater harvesting, narrow street, rain garden,
stormwater wetland, tree canopy cover, green roof, disconnection of impervious area, porous
pavement and soil modification. |
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