Scenario-Based Green Infrastructure Installations for Building Urban Stormwater Resilience—A Case Study of Fengxi New City, China
Yuyang Mao,
Yu Li,
Xinlu Bai,
Xiaolu Yang,
Youting Han and
Xin Fu (fuxinuc@outlook.com)
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Yuyang Mao: College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Yu Li: College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Xinlu Bai: College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Xiaolu Yang: College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Youting Han: College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Xin Fu: College of Landscape Architecture and Arts, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 10, 1-22
Abstract:
Global climate change has precipitated a surge in urban flooding challenges, prompting the imperative role of green infrastructure (GI) as the linchpin of sponge city construction to enhance urban sustainability and resilience. But the evaluation of urban stormwater resilience faces challenges due to the lack of a comprehensive evaluation framework taking the intrinsic features of the resilience system into account and the insufficient coverage of alternative scenarios’ performance under multiple rainfall return periods. This study, focusing on Fengxi New City, China, evaluates the suitability of GI (i.e., green roofs, rain gardens, and permeable pavements) and constructs a stormwater management model (SWMM) for urban stormwater hydrological simulation. This study also establishes a comprehensive urban stormwater resilience evaluation system and uses quantitative methods to unify the performances of scenarios under different rainfall return periods. Our analytical findings elucidate that the suitability of GI is predominantly concentrated in the northern and western areas of the study area, with the smallest suitable area observed for permeable pavements. Divergent GIs exhibit disparate performances, with rain gardens emerging as particularly efficacious. Importantly, the combination of multiple GIs yields a synergistic enhancement in resilience, underscoring the strategic advantage of adopting a diverse and integrated approach to GI implementation. This study facilitates a deeper understanding of urban stormwater resilience and assists in informed planning decisions for GI and sponge cities.
Keywords: resilience; green infrastructure; sponge city; SWMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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