Cities of the future : towards integrated sustainable water and landscape management : proceedings of an international workshop held July 12-14, 2006 in Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, WI / editors Vladimir Novotny, Paul R. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novotny, Vladimir, 1938-

Brown, Paul R., AICP

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water quality management--Congresses.

Water quality management.

Municipal water supply--Congresses.

Municipal water supply.

Environmental management--Congresses.

Environmental management.

Sustainable development--Congresses.

Sustainable development.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : IWA Publishing, 2007.

Contents:

The importance of water infrastructure and the environment in tomorrow's cities / Paul Brown

Developments towards urban water sustainability in the Chicago metropolitan area / Richard Lanyon

Water and cities : overcoming inertia and achieving a sustainable future / Andrew Speers

Hurricane realities, models, levees and wetlands / I.L. van Heerden, G.P. Kemp and H. Mashriqui

Water quality and public health : case studies of Hurricane Katrina and the December 2004 tsunami in Thailand / A.J. Englande, R. Sinclair, and P. Lo

Design of an environmental field observatory for quantifying the urban water budget / Claire Welty, Andrew J. Miller, Kenneth T. Belt, James A. Smith, Lawrence E. Band, Peter M. Groffman, Todd M. Scanlon, Juying Warner, Robert J. Ryan, Robert J. Shedlock, and Michael P. McGuire

Ecosystem approaches to reduce pollution in cities / L.A. Baker and P.L. Brezonik

Field data requirements for monitoring and modelling of urban drainage systems / J.-L. Bertand-Krajewski

Ground water and cities / P. Shanahan and B.L. Jacobs

Framework for risk-based assessment of stream response to urbanization / B.P. Bledsoe

Urban diffuse pollution and solutions in Japan / Kiyoshi Yamada and Victor Muhandiki

Tools for the evaluation of stormwater management practices that provide ecological stability in urban streams / C.A. Pomeroy and L.A. Roesner

Effluent dominated water bodies, their reclamation and reuse to achieve sustainability / V. Novotny

Reclaimed stormwater and wastewater and factors affecting their reuse / H. Furumai

Centralized and decentralized urban water, wastewater & storm water systems / James P. Heaney

Urban ecological design and urban ecology : an assessment of the state of current knowledge and a suggested research agenda / K. Hill

Green infrastructure for cities : the spatial dimension / J. Ahern

Strategic planning of the sustainable future wastewater and biowaste system in Göteborg, Sweden / Per-Arne Malmqvist and Gerald Heinicke

The role of low impact redevelopment/development in integrated watershed management planning : turning theory into practice / M. Maimone, J. Smullen, B. Marengo and C. Crockett

Automation and real-time control in urban stormwater management / J. W. Labadie

Urban drainage at cross-roads : four future scenarios ranging from business-as-usual to sustainability / J. Marsalek, R. Ashley, B. Chocat, M.R. Matos, W. Rauch, W. Schilling, and B. Urbonas

Overcoming legal barriers to hydrological sustainability of urban systems / R. Adler

Ecosystem resilience and institutional change : the evolving role of public water suppliers / L.P. Breckenridge

Financial, economic, and institutional barriers to "green" urban development : the case of stormwater / W.H. Clune and J.B. Braden

Restoring the Charles River watershed using flow trading / Kate Bowditch.

Notes:

"Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, USA ... [et al.]."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781843391364

1843391368

OCLC:

176801473