Adapting to climate change in the UK: A water sensitive urban design approach applied to NW cambridge

WSUD 2012 - 7th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Building the Water Sensitive Community, Final Program and Abstract Book

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Woods, Ashley ^a,b   Morgan, Celeste ^a  

^a AECOM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change adaptation; Urban planning; Water sensitive urban design

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIDGE; CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE PROJECTION; GREENFIELD; MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS; MASTERPLAN; NUTRIENT LOADS; OPTIMISATIONS; PEAK FLOWS; RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS; SEASONAL RAINFALL; STORMWATERS; SURFACE-WATER DRAINAGE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; URBAN DESIGN; WATER SENSITIVE; WINTER MONTHS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NUTRIENTS; RUNOFF; URBAN PLANNING; WATER QUALITY;

WATER CONSERVATION;

EID: 84862006699     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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