Assessment and planning of green spaces in urban parks: A review

W Halecki, T Stachura, W Fudała, A Stec… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban areas require more investment to maintain greenery. Greener areas are becoming
increasingly attractive to stakeholders. As a result, urban parks are more valuable …

[HTML][HTML] The ecosystem services of urban soils: A review

R O'Riordan, J Davies, C Stevens, JN Quinton… - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
The expansion of urban areas worldwide is increasing the anthropogenic impact upon soil
and highlights the important role of urban areas in supporting a sustainable future. As such …

Integrating urban water fluxes and moving beyond impervious surface cover: A review

CJ Oswald, C Kelleher, SH Ledford, KG Hopkins… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Though urban areas represent a small fraction of global land cover, they have an outsized
impact on hydrological processes. Within these areas, the pathways that water follows are …

[HTML][HTML] Soil infiltration rates are underestimated by models in an urban watershed in central North Carolina, USA

CB Bergeson, KL Martin, B Doll, BB Cutts - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Stormwater management problems are expanding as urbanization continues and
precipitation patterns are increasingly extreme. Urban soils are often more disturbed and …

Home gardening in Muscat, Oman: Gardeners' practices, perceptions and motivations

A Al-Mayahi, S Al-Ismaily, T Gibreel, A Kacimov… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
Omani home-gardens are jeopardized by the poor agronomic practices and unqualified
gardeners. This study aimed to find:(i) gardening characteristics, practices and gardener's …

Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems

DL Herrmann, K Schwarz, CR Allen… - Ecology and society …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Managing social-ecological systems toward desirable regimes requires learning about the
system being managed while preparing for many possible futures. Adaptive management …

Modeling the impact of urban trees on hydrology

R Coville, T Endreny, DJ Nowak - Forest-water interactions, 2020 - Springer
Urban trees provide numerous benefits to society, as well as costs. One of the more
important benefits of urban trees relates to their impact on surface stormwater runoff …

An analytical approach to ascertain saturation‐excess versus infiltration‐excess overland flow in urban and reference landscapes

RD Stewart, AS Bhaskar, AJ Parolari… - Hydrological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Uncontrolled overland flow drives flooding, erosion, and contaminant transport, with the
severity of these outcomes often amplified in urban areas. In pervious media such as urban …

K in an Urban World: New Contexts for Hydraulic Conductivity

WD Shuster, L Schifman, C Kelleher… - JAWRA Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic conductivity (K) is a key hydrologic parameter widely recognized to be difficult to
estimate and constrain, with little consistent assessment in disturbed, urbanized soils. To …

Rain garden performance as a function of native soil parameters

GM Bethke, R William, AS Stillwell - … of Sustainable Water in the Built …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Green infrastructure has been widely studied as a means of runoff reduction in urban areas,
but the performance of such infrastructure installations is dependent on local environmental …