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Developing a Pedagogical Framework for an Integrated and BIM-Based High-Performance Design Studio: Experimental Case Study

Shahverdi, Amir Farbod (author), Mostafavi, F. (author), Roodkoly, Sogand Haghighat (author), Zomorodian, Zahra Sadat (author), Homayouni, Hoda (author)

As the current environmental crisis and depletion of our energy resources are pushing the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry toward the design and construction of High-Performance (HP) buildings, new organizational and technological methods of practice, such as Integrated Design Process (IDP) and Building Information...

journal article 2024

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A Multilayer Control Strategy for the Calais Canal

Segovia Castillo, P. (author), Puig, Vicenc (author), Duviella, Eric (author)

This article presents the design of a control strategy for the Calais canal, a navigation canal located in a lowland area in northern France that is affected by tides. Moreover, the available actuators are discrete-valued and the hierarchy of operational objectives is time-varying. All these circumstances render water level regulation of the...

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Groundwater Vulnerability in a Megacity Under Climate and Economic Changes: A Coupled Sociohydrological Analysis

Li, Bin (author), Zheng, Yi (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Xu, Peng (author), Pande, S. (author), Sivapalan, Murugesu (author)

Groundwater depletion has become increasingly challenging, and many cities worldwide have adopted drastic policies to relieve water stress due to socioeconomic growth. Located on the declining aquifer of the North China Plain, Beijing, for example, has developed plans to limit the size of the city’s population. However, the effect of...

journal article 2023

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Governing Resilience Planning: Organizational Structures, Institutional Rules, and Fiscal Incentives in Guangzhou

Meng, Meng (author), Dabrowski, M.M. (author), Stead, D. (author)

Researchers and policymakers have long called for a collaborative governance process for climate adaptation and flood resilience. However, this is usually challenging when urban planning is supposed to be integrated with water management. Using the Chinese city of Guangzhou as a case study, this study explores the long-term disadvantaged...

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Multilayer blue-green roofs as nature-based solutions for water and thermal insulation management

Cristiano, Elena (author), Annis, Antonio (author), Apollonio, Ciro (author), Urru, Salvatore (author), Pelorosso, Raffaele (author), Francipane, Antonio (author), Hoes, O.A.C. (author), Klapwijk, Friso (author), Nardi, Fernando (author)

Green roofs have been widely recognized as sustainable nature-based solutions to mitigate floods in urban areas, which, in the last decades, are increasing due to the combination of intense worldwide urbanization and climate change. Besides flood mitigation, green roofs provide additional benefits for the urban environment (e.g., reducing the...

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Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management

Van Loon, Anne F. (author), Rangecroft, Sally (author), Coxon, Gemma (author), Werner, Micha (author), Wanders, Niko (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Tijdeman, Erik (author), Bosman, Marianne (author), Breña-Naranjo, Jose Agustin (author), Jewitt, G.P.W. (author)

Human activities both aggravate and alleviate streamflow drought. Here we show that aggravation is dominant in contrasting cases around the world analysed with a consistent methodology. Our 28 cases included different combinations of human-water interactions. We found that water abstraction aggravated all drought characteristics, with...

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Revisiting China’s Sponge City Planning Approach: Lessons From a Case Study on Qinhuai District, Nanjing

Chen, Shiyang (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author), Verbeeck, Simon (author), Ye, Qinghua (author), Zhang, Weijun (author), Wei, Liang (author)

Integrating sustainable urban water management into the urban planning process is essential for developing water-resilient cities. To this end, the central government of the People’s Republic of China initiated the “Sponge City” programme. However, challenges and gaps exist in current urban planning practice. The operationalizable planning...

journal article 2021

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Bank Erosion Processes in Regulated Navigable Rivers

Duro, G. (author), Crosato, A. (author), Kleinhans, M. G. (author), Roelvink, D. (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author)

Vessel-induced waves affect the morphology and ecology of banks and shorelines around the world. In rivers used as waterways, ship passages contribute to the erosion of unprotected banks, but their short- and long-term impacts remain unclear. This work investigates the effects of navigation on bank erosion along a reach of the regulated Meuse...

journal article 2020

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Navigating the bureaucracy: an analysis of implementation feasibility for the Mekong Delta Plan, Vietnam

Korbee, D. (author), Hong Quan, Nguyen (author), Hermans, L.M. (author), Ho Long, Phi (author)

Strategic delta planning focuses on strategic, long-term choices to stimulate sustainable development in deltas. Strategic delta plans outline a long-term vision to be embedded into the plans and activities of government agencies and semi-public actors at multiple levels. This implies a form of coordinated, yet decentralized, implementation....

journal article 2019

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Optimization of water allocation in the Shatt al-Arab River under different salinity regimes and tide impact

Abdullah, A.D.A. (author), Castro-Gama, Mario (author), Popescu, Ioana (author), van der Zaag, P. (author), Karim, Usama (author), Al Suhail, Qusay (author)

Wastewater effluents from irrigation and the domestic and industrial sectors have serious impacts in deteriorating water quality in many rivers, particularly in areas under tidal influence. There is a need to develop an approach that considers the impact of human and natural causes of salinization. This study uses a multi-objective...

journal article 2018

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Global impacts of the meat trade on in-stream organic river pollution: The importance of spatially distributed hydrological conditions

Wen, Y. (author), Schoups, G.H.W. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)

In many regions of the world, intensive livestock farming has become a significant source of organic river pollution. As the international meat trade is growing rapidly, the environmental impacts of meat production within one country can occur either domestically or internationally. The goal of this paper is to quantify the impacts of the...

journal article 2018

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A controlled sewer system should be treated as a sampled data system with events

van Nooijen, R.R.P. (author), Kolechkina, A.G. (author)

Arguments are presented in favor of modeling sewer systems and in particular Dutch sewer systems as a sampled data system with events. Basic limitations on controlling these systems when ignoring their hybrid nature are stated. The traditional control scheme for the Dutch systems is given as an example of event driven local control. Basic...

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Role of Sectoral Transformation in the Evolution of Water Management Norms in Agricultural Catchments: A Sociohydrologic Modeling Analysis

Roobavannan, M (author), Kandasamy, J (author), Pande, S. (author), Vigneswaran, S (author), Sivapalan, M (author)

This study is focused on the water-agriculture-environment nexus as it played out in the Murrumbidgee River Basin, eastern Australia, and how coevolution of society and water management actually transpired. Over 100 years of agricultural development the Murrumbidgee Basin experienced a “pendulum swing” in terms of water allocation, initially...

journal article 2017

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Long-Term Bacterial Dynamics in a Full-Scale Drinking Water Distribution System

Prest, E.I.E.D. (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author), Hammes, F (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Vrouwenvelder, J.S. (author)

Large seasonal variations in microbial drinking water quality can occur in distribution networks, but are often not taken into account when evaluating results from short-term water sampling campaigns. Temporal dynamics in bacterial community characteristics were investigated during a two-year drinking water monitoring campaign in a full-scale...

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Study of Global Change Impacts on the Inland Navigation Management: Application on the Nord-Pas de Calais Network

Nouasse, Houda (author), Horváth, K. (author), Rajaoarisoa, Lala (author), Doniec, Arnaud (author), Duviella, Eric (author), Chuquet, Karine (author)

In a global change context, governments in Europe want to promote alternative transports as inland navigation or railway instead of road transport. As example, in north of France, a shift of 20% from road transport to these alternative transport solutions is expected by 2050. Reaching this goal requires not only the delivery of new...

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Determining water reservoir characteristics with global elevation data

van Bemmelen, C. W T (author), Mann, M. (author), de Ridder, M.P. (author), Rutten, M.M. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)

Quantification of human impact on water, sediment, and nutrient fluxes at the global scale demands characterization of reservoirs with an accuracy that is presently unavailable. This letter presents a new method, based on virtual dam placement, to make accurate estimations of area-volume relationships of large reservoirs, using solely readily...

journal article 2016

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The Politics of Resilience in the Dutch ‘Room for the River’-project

De Bruijn, J.A. (author), De Bruijne, M.L.C. (author), Ten Heuvelhof, E.F. (author)

An increased focus on the concept of resilience in flood protection has led to the development of a comprehensive flood protection strategy in the Netherlands which stresses the need to provide ‘Room for the River’ rather than building dykes. But how can a resilient solution in flood protection be successfully implemented? Using insights from...

journal article 2015

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Global analysis of population growth and river water quality

Wen, Y. (author), Schoups, G.H.W. (author), Van de Giesen, N.C. (author)

journal article 2014

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Fit for purpose? Building and evaluating a fast, integrated model for exploring water policy pathways

Haasnoot, M. (author), Van Deursen, W.P.A. (author), Guillaume, J.H.A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Van Beek, E. (author), Middelkoop, H. (author)

Exploring adaptation pathways is an emerging approach for supporting decision making under uncertain changing conditions. An adaptation pathway is a sequence of policy actions to reach specified objectives. To develop adaptation pathways, interactions between environment and policy response need to be analysed over time for an ensemble of...

journal article 2014

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SimDelta global: Towards a standardised interactive model for water infrastructure development

Rijcken, T. (author), Christopher, D.K. (author)

The research project ‘SimDelta’ builds on novel internet technology to support the development of the Rhine-Meuse delta water infrastructure. It has three goals: education, organisation of research and design studies, and stakeholder polling. A current question is how the SimDelta technology could be made transferable to systems outside Europe,...

journal article 2013