Tools for modeling of stormwater management and economics of green infrastructure practices: A review

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 225, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Jayasooriya, V M ^a   Ng, A W M ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Economics; Green Infrastructure (GI); Modeling Tools; Stormwater management

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; STORM SEWERS; STORMS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

CATCHMENT MODELING; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT; MODELING TOOL; STORM-WATER MANAGEMENTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

STORM WATER;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORMWATER; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; CALCULATOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPA SUSTAIN MODEL; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE VALUATION TOOL KIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIDRA MODEL; MUSIC MODEL; P8 URBAN CATCHMENT MODEL; PREDICTION; RECARGA METHOD; REVIEW; SIMULATION; SWMM MODEL; WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WINSLAMM MODEL;

EID: 84943589368     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-014-2055-1     Document Type: Review

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