A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Green Infrastructure in Mitigating Pollutant Transferal and Flood Events in Sunnyside, Houston, TX
| Author(s) | Newman, Galen | |
| Author(s) | Sansom, Garett T. | |
| Author(s) | Yu, Siyu | |
| Author(s) | Kirsch, Katie R. | |
| Author(s) | Li, Dongying | |
| Author(s) | Kim, Youjung | |
| Author(s) | Horney, Jennifer A. | |
| Author(s) | Kim, Gunwoo | |
| Author(s) | Musharrat, Saima | |
| Date Accessioned | 2022-05-23T19:58:41Z | |
| Date Available | 2022-05-23T19:58:41Z | |
| Publication Date | 2022 | |
| Description | This article was originally published in Sustainability. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074247 | en_US |
| Abstract | There is a growing and critical need to develop solutions for communities that are at particular risk of the impacts of the nexus of hazardous substances and natural disasters. In urban areas at high risk for flooding and lacking proper land-use controls, communities are vulnerable to environmental contamination from industrial land uses during flood events. This research uniquely applied a series of landscape pzerformance models to evaluate such associations including (1) the Green Values National Stormwater Calculator, (2) the Value of Green Infrastructure Tool, and (3) the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment Model. This paper presents a framework for combining landscape performance models, which are often only individually applied, to evaluate green infrastructure impacts on flood mitigation and pollutant transfer during flooding events using the Sunnyside neighborhood in Houston, Texas, USA, as a case site. The results showed that the plan reduced the risk of flooding, decreased stormwater runoff contaminants, and provided a possible direction to protect vulnerable communities. | en_US |
| Sponsor | This work was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund under Grant #P42ES027704-01 and the Korea Ministry of Environment (MOE) under Grant #2020002780001. | en_US |
| Citation | Newman, Galen, Garett T. Sansom, Siyu Yu, Katie R. Kirsch, Dongying Li, Youjung Kim, Jennifer A. Horney, Gunwoo Kim, and Saima Musharrat. 2022. "A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Green Infrastructure in Mitigating Pollutant Transferal and Flood Events in Sunnyside, Houston, TX" Sustainability 14, no. 7: 4247. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074247 | en_US |
| ISSN | 2071-1050 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/30900 | |
| Language | en_US | en_US |
| Publisher | Sustainability | en_US |
| Keywords | landscape performance | en_US |
| Keywords | green infrastructure | en_US |
| Keywords | stormwater | en_US |
| Keywords | resilience | en_US |
| Keywords | equity | en_US |
| Title | A Framework for Evaluating the Effects of Green Infrastructure in Mitigating Pollutant Transferal and Flood Events in Sunnyside, Houston, TX | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |
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