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Urban Storm Water Management and Its Challenges
Urban Storm Water Management and Its Challenges

Author(s): Laura Elena Tucan
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: Climate change; floods; stormwater management; interdisciplinary research

Summary/Abstract: Considering the climate change and the global issue in which human capacity to control floods is exceeded, ihis article is an approach to the topic of international concern “urban stormwater management”. Thus, in this paper it will be presented measures which the public and local governments should adopt in order to prevent the catastrophic effect that climate change may have both on the antrophic space and on the natural space in urban areas. Being a recent attitude for planning the city of the future, this approach presents an initiation of specialists (engineers, architects, town planners, landscape architects, etc.) in an interdisciplinary research, provided by the interrelation of urban dimension with engineering size.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 12-17
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English