A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Green Infrastructure in Mitigating Pollutant Transferal and Flood Events in Sunnyside, Houston, TX

Galen Newman, Garett T. Sansom, Siyu Yu, Katie R. Kirsch, Dongying Li, Youjung Kim, Jennifer A. Horney, Gunwoo Kim and Saima Musharrat
Additional contact information
Galen Newman: Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Garett T. Sansom: School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Siyu Yu: Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Katie R. Kirsch: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Dongying Li: Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Youjung Kim: Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Jennifer A. Horney: Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Gunwoo Kim: Graduate School of Urban Studies, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea
Saima Musharrat: Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: There is a growing and critical need to develop solutions for communities that are at particular risk of the impacts of the nexus of hazardous substances and natural disasters. In urban areas at high risk for flooding and lacking proper land-use controls, communities are vulnerable to environmental contamination from industrial land uses during flood events. This research uniquely applied a series of landscape pzerformance models to evaluate such associations including (1) the Green Values National Stormwater Calculator, (2) the Value of Green Infrastructure Tool, and (3) the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment Model. This paper presents a framework for combining landscape performance models, which are often only individually applied, to evaluate green infrastructure impacts on flood mitigation and pollutant transfer during flooding events using the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston, Texas, USA, as a case site. The results showed that the plan reduced the risk of flooding, decreased stormwater runoff contaminants, and provided a possible direction to protect vulnerable communities.

Keywords: landscape performance; green infrastructure; stormwater; resilience; equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/7/4247/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/7/4247/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:7:p:4247-:d:786216

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().