The impacts of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) on vegetated flows’ dynamics in urban areas
Giuseppe Francesco Cesare Lama, Matteo Rillo Migliorini Giovannini, Alessandro Errico, Sajjad Mirzaei, Giovanni Battista Chirico, Federico Preti
Abstract
The increasing role of climate change in the analysis and the design of flooding risk management in agricultural, forestry, and urban areas highlighted the importance of adopting hydraulic engineering solutions that could account for the protection of ecosystems' environmental quality. It was possible demonstrating in this work that the proposal of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) analyzed by employing a rigorous model of riverine vegetation phenology constitutes a highly valuable alternative to classical concrete-based infrastructures when dealing with ecohydraulic flooding risk management.
Topics & Concepts
Flooding (psychology)Environmental scienceClimate changeWork (physics)EcosystemEnvironmental resource managementVegetation (pathology)Computer scienceEngineeringEcologyBiologyMechanical engineeringPsychologyPathologyMedicinePsychotherapistHydrology and Sediment Transport ProcessesSoil erosion and sediment transportFlood Risk Assessment and Management