Towards restoring urban waters: understanding the main pressures

S Teurlincx, JJ Kuiper, ECM Hoevenaar… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many lentic urban waters are in poor ecological quality, but restoration is
possible.•We identify and review important pressures on urban systems including …

Remote sensing monitoring of multi-scale watersheds impermeability for urban hydrological evaluation

Z Shao, H Fu, D Li, O Altan, T Cheng - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban impervious surface coverage is an important parameter to understand effects of hydro-
environment on the process of urbanization. Impervious surfaces have altered urban …

Urbanization enhances channel and surface runoff: A quantitative analysis using both physical and empirical models over the Yangtze River basin

S Huang, Y Gan, N Chen, C Wang, X Zhang, C Li… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urbanization has become an irreversible trend and is even more rapid in flood-prone area.
However, the responses of both channel runoff and surface runoff to the urbanization and …

Surface runoff in urban areas: The role of residential cover and urban growth form

C Xu, M Rahman, D Haase, Y Wu, M Su… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the context of rapid urbanization and climate change, understanding the impact of urban
dynamics on surface runoff is important. For future urban planning, there is a particular …

Identifying city-scale potential and priority areas for retrofitting green roofs and assessing their runoff reduction effectiveness in urban functional zones

W Liu, Y Qian, L Yao, Q Feng, BA Engel… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Green roof is a popular green infrastructure type implemented in highly urbanized areas, but
it is difficult to reliably translate local results to urban or watershed scales. It is necessary to …

Regional-scale prediction of pluvial and flash flood susceptible areas using tree-based classifiers

M Kaiser, S Günnemann, M Disse - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Flood events triggered by heavy rain, such as pluvial and flash floods, are a common threat
worldwide. However, it is usually not known which areas and cities are particularly …

Impacts of combined land-use and climate change on streamflow in two nested catchments in the Southeastern United States

CLJ Hung, LA James, GJ Carbone, JM Williams - Ecological Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Stream restoration aims to improve hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes and
provides an opportunity for ecological design in an urban context. Urban stream restoration …