Managing Water for the City of the Future

» Stormwater Resources section

Focus 1: Stormwater control technologies and risk reviews the adaptability of stormwater best management practices (BMPs) to a range of environmental and socio-economic conditions. It supports Learning Alliances in identifying city-specific threats and impacts on stormwater control strategies over both short and longer term timescales.

• Review of adaptability and sensitivity of current stormwater control technologies
• Database showing threats and uncertainties to stormwater control

Focus 2: Design and urban integration of stormwater BMPs reviews the guidelines for stormwater BMPs, their potential to integrate with existing infrastructure and evaluates the performance of brown roofs and ecohydrology approaches in selected SWITCH cities.

• Design manual incorporating best practice guidleines for stormwater management options and treatment under extreme conditions
  Part A | Part B
• Brown roofs for stormwater management and biodiversity – balancing the tradeoffs

Focus 3: Decision support toolspresents developments made in relation to the modelling of stormwater BMPs from a range of perspectives including site and BMP selection, water quality and quantity (SUDSloc), the analysis of life-cycle costs (LCCCA) and a relative risk modelling approach to managing uncertainty (COFAS).

• SUDSloc: GIS based approach to selecting stormwater management solutions
• LCCCA: Development and testing of lifecycle cost calculation tool
• COFAS: Assessing future uncertainties associated with urban drainage

Focus 4: Institutional analysis documents the current institutional arrangements for stormwater management in selected SWITCH cities and sets out guidelines for the development of stormwater management institutional maps.

• Evaluation of current stormwater strategies
• Guidelines for institutional map for cities identifying areas lacking power and funding re stormwater management

Focus 5: Stormwater as a resource in IUWM provides a deeper analysis of decision-making processes involved in managing urban stormwater, with a particular focus on the identification of opportunities for reusing stormwater and its potential to contribute to meeting the needs of other sectors of the urban water cycle.

• Evaluation of decision making processes in urban stormwater management
• Catalogue of options for reuse of stormwater
• Stormwater as a valuable resource within the urban water cycle

Focus 6: Stormwater Best Management Practice Principles facilitates the integration of stormwater within a sustainable urban water management approach and its inclusion as a resource within the wider urban landscape, providing inspiration for a creative, artful and healthy handling of stormwater within urban areas.

• BMP principles for stormwater management as integrated urban water resource management strategy
• Water Sensitive Urban Design: Principles and Inspiration

Back to top

• All resources associated with this research area
• PhDs and MScs relating to Stormwater: Exploring the options
• Publications relating to Stormwater: Exploring the options

Alternatively, click here to search the complete database for particular types of resources.

Back to top