scholarly journals Sustainable Stormwater Management as an Opportunity for Campus and Community-based Engineering Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Brandes
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management

scholarly journals Integrating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urban Planning: Ways Forward towards Institutional Change and Collaborative Action

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bohman ◽  
Erik Glaas ◽  
Martin Karlson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Urban Stormwater Management ◽  
Collaborative Action ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
New Strategies

Climate change impacts, ageing infrastructure and the increasing imperviousness of cities all raise enormous challenges to and call for new ways of planning for sustainable urban stormwater management. Especially, closer collaboration among a diverse set of actors involved has been pointed to as critical to enable the development of holistic and flexible approaches. However, the shift towards inclusive forms of planning has been slow, and characterized by technical and institutional lock-ins. Against this background, this study scrutinizes the challenges and developments perceived as central for improving stormwater planning, and analyzes how formal and informal institutional change could contribute to enhancing sustainability in this sector. Building on an analysis of data from workshops, interviews and a survey with Swedish planners and water managers, we suggest new strategies for integrating stormwater concerns into planning processes, overcoming silo structures, fostering cocreation cultures, and securing the continuation and implementation of stormwater management through various planning stages.

Community-Based Social Marketing—Creating Lasting, Sustainable, Environmental Change: Case Study of a Household Stormwater Management Program in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 308-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Keira Marie Smith ◽  
Jennifer Kristin Lynes ◽  
S. E. Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Household Level

With increased frequency of extreme weather events due to climate change, there is growing need for urban, small-scale adaptation and preventative measures such as stormwater management to reduce the risk of flooding. Homeowners are often reluctant to adopt preventative stormwater measures without tangible benefits or direct experience with the flooding risks or other negative externalities. Using community-based social marketing (CBSM) as a framework, we investigated how to more effectively encourage stormwater management at the household level. In collaboration with the Canadian non-profit organization, Reep Green Solutions (Region of Waterloo, Ontario), we focused on an existing program, the RAIN Home Visit (RHV), which was designed to increase engagement in pro-environmental stormwater management behaviors. Reports from the RHV were assessed, and past program participants were interviewed using a semi-structured question set to identify barriers encountered in enacting these behaviors and to assess the program for inclusion of CBSM principles and tools. Surveys were used to collect demographic data from participants. We found that while preferred behaviors were explained and incentives were provided, more thorough, clear explanation was needed for homeowners as well as incentives of suitable size and value to effectively motivate homeowners to change. Key features that should be included in future RHV programs are public commitments, follow-up, and reminders. Further research should consider risk perception impacts with CBSM, to determine how these can work together and, perhaps, which precedes the other. Some people may be more influenced by social norms to act and others by risk perception.

scholarly journals Merging Engineering Education with Service-Learning: How Community Based Projects Encourage Socially Conscious Engineers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Aaron Brown ◽  
Michael Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Creative Problem Solving ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Creative Problem

Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving closed-ended problems. Too often, engineering programs do not encourage inventive expression in problem solving. Not surprisingly, the attrition rate for engineering programs is unusually high. Recently, engineering education has shifted its focus to new, more engaging practices that incorporate hands-on methods, boosting prospects for students to engage in creative problem solving. Because service learning provides opportunities for applied work, incorporating it into engineering education programs in can engage students positively and lower attrition rates. Moreover, since engineers are fundamentally involved with social improvement, then engaging students in activities that expand their understanding of the potential impact their skills may impart to a community is not only prudent but best practices. This paper explores two case studies of community-based service learning engineering projects, highlighting community partnerships, analyses and decision-making that helped drive designs and outcomes. It explores how both the communities and students benefitted, focusing notably on the influence these activities had on student understanding of their work, academic and/or professional direction and social consciousness. These are analyzed via longitudinal reporting of students incorporating lessons learned several years post-project. The service learning projects took place in marginalized communities in Denver and Costa Rica. In the Denver project, engineering students designed, built and installed low cost solar heaters into an area with poor housing stock. In Costa Rica, students built a solar water heater for a local school. Keywords: applied learning, engineering education, experiential learning, service-learning.

scholarly journals Sustainable stormwater management and design

2019 ◽  
pp. 261-269
Author(s):  
Janusz Niemczynowicz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Water ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Urban Runoff ◽  
New Development ◽  
Sustainable Stormwater Management ◽  
Water Volumes ◽  
Large Water ◽  
Detailed Application ◽  
Stormwater System

Stormwater system are necessary to convey urban runoff from a city in order to avoid floods in urban areas. Large water volumes of urban runoff bring important changes to natural water flow regime not only in a city but also downstream bringing pollution to entire river basin .The paper gives the rationale and principles of new development within urban storrnwater management. Two detailed application examples of new storrnwater management are presented in the paper.

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