The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes

Urban water managers face numerous challenges, including limited natural resources for maintenance of technical infrastructure, changing demography, and dramatic environmental degradation. Although the vision of the "water-sensitive city" helps to develop tools and strategies toward more s...

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Autores principales:	Lauranne Pille, Ina Säumel
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2021
Materias:	blue-green city decentralized water infrastructure low-impact development stormwater management sustainable urban water drainage urban biodiversity Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:af4e9246968e4c0a93c457d4481de11a2021-11-15T16:40:18ZThe water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes1708-308710.5751/ES-12386-260223https://doaj.org/article/af4e9246968e4c0a93c457d4481de11a2021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss2/art23/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Urban water managers face numerous challenges, including limited natural resources for maintenance of technical infrastructure, changing demography, and dramatic environmental degradation. Although the vision of the "water-sensitive city" helps to develop tools and strategies toward more sustainable urban water systems, it does not consider biodiversity effects. We therefore aimed to determine habitat provision or habitat services provided by important rainwater management measures (e.g., ponds, swales, rain gardens, green roofs, green walls, permeable pavement), and to highlight how specific design and management practices for such measures enhance urban biodiversity. There is evidence of habitat services provided by rainwater management measures. Nevertheless, the categorization of such measures as civil engineering structures and their related rules limit efforts to optimize the biodiversity friendliness of design and management. The main factors to provide enhanced and more sustainable habitats are shaping design and maintenance according to target species and favoring connectivity by integrating rainwater management measures into the urban blue-green network. We find that strategic implementation of combinations of rainwater management measures into existing built-up areas allows greater multifunctionality of urban infrastructure. The "biodiversity-friendly and water-sensitive city" implies the efficient integration of ecological design measures in urban planning at building, neighborhood, and landscape scales.Lauranne PilleIna SäumelResilience Alliancearticleblue-green citydecentralized water infrastructurelow-impact developmentstormwater managementsustainable urban water drainageurban biodiversityBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 26, Iss 2, p 23 (2021)
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spellingShingle	blue-green city decentralized water infrastructure low-impact development stormwater management sustainable urban water drainage urban biodiversity Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Lauranne Pille Ina Säumel The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
description	Urban water managers face numerous challenges, including limited natural resources for maintenance of technical infrastructure, changing demography, and dramatic environmental degradation. Although the vision of the "water-sensitive city" helps to develop tools and strategies toward more sustainable urban water systems, it does not consider biodiversity effects. We therefore aimed to determine habitat provision or habitat services provided by important rainwater management measures (e.g., ponds, swales, rain gardens, green roofs, green walls, permeable pavement), and to highlight how specific design and management practices for such measures enhance urban biodiversity. There is evidence of habitat services provided by rainwater management measures. Nevertheless, the categorization of such measures as civil engineering structures and their related rules limit efforts to optimize the biodiversity friendliness of design and management. The main factors to provide enhanced and more sustainable habitats are shaping design and maintenance according to target species and favoring connectivity by integrating rainwater management measures into the urban blue-green network. We find that strategic implementation of combinations of rainwater management measures into existing built-up areas allows greater multifunctionality of urban infrastructure. The "biodiversity-friendly and water-sensitive city" implies the efficient integration of ecological design measures in urban planning at building, neighborhood, and landscape scales.
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title	The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
title_short	The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
title_full	The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
title_fullStr	The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
title_full_unstemmed	The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes
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publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2021
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The water-sensitive city meets biodiversity: habitat services of rain water management measures in highly urbanized landscapes

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