Water Treatment in Urban Environments: A Guide for the Implementation and Scaling of Nature-based Solutions: Examples from South/Southeast Asia (2024) (Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future)

Synopsis

The value of implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) for water treatment in urban environments is increasingly recognized due to the multiple ecosystem services and societal benefits they provide. The successful implementation of NbS for urban water treatment, however, depends on a range of diverse technical and societal factors that need to be taken into account. Those vary by the type of NbS implemented, the societal challenges the NbS are designed to address and the local ecological, socio-economic and political context, in which the solutions are implemented. This book provides a collection of guidelines for the implementation of three types of NbS for water treatment in urban environments across cities in South/Southeast Asia, namely constructed wetlands, green roofs and floating treatment wetlands. The guides were developed based on existing experiences with the establishment, operation, and maintenance of those three types of NbS in three different countriesin South/Southeast Asia and the lessons learnt from their implementation. They provide detailed outlines of suggested steps for ensuring successful implementation in the respective local contexts. Those include overall planning schemes, surveys for socio-economic evaluations, suggested methods for construction and associated costs, required maintenance as well as a range of operational monitoring parameters. It also includes examples of approaches for the scaling of the three types of NbS discussed in the book in their respective local contexts. This book is expected to benefit local government units and contractors, and other stakeholders involved in NbS implementation and up-scaling, as well as researchers and postgraduate students who plan to conduct pilot-scale studies on NbS.

Copyright:

2024

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ISBN-13:

9783031492822

Related ISBNs:

9783031492815

Publisher:

Springer Nature Switzerland

Date of Addition:

03/23/24

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Technology, Earth Sciences

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Veeriah Jegatheesan

Edited by:

Perlie Velasco

Edited by:

Nevelina Pachova