Rethinking SuDS : a way forward for Sustainable Urbanization
Raut, Pragya (2023)
2023
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The aim of this research is to critically reassess the potentiality of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS)and propose them as the reliable way forward for sustainable urbanization in a present context when urban areas everywhere are facing extreme climate events and surging flood risks due to disrupted natural hydrological cycles. The issues are likely to get worse in the coming years.
Considering UNSDG goals as the universally accepted benchmark of a sustainable world, the “more than meets the eye”, suds’ benefits are philosophically tallied against them while also zooming at some best practices. Advancing the research, it is identified that very limited awareness about SuDS prevails, and some effective strategies for unsealing are provided in a real-world scenario yielding general recommendations for SuDS implementation in the end.
The dissertation reveals that SuDS align well with the UN SDGs demonstrating their potential to resolve modern urban challenges while catering to the sustainable way ahead.
This study underscores the necessity of re-embracing SuDS as a means to balance urbanization and environmental integrity and, this time as the centerpiece, for more-than just water managing solutions. It also urges that the very first thing to do is fill up the suds literacy gap. The research can be important for professionals working with SuDS and UNSDG goals as it makes us rethink that SuDS have the capacity to rephrase the narratives of not only urban water management systems but whole urban systems in a broader framework.
Considering UNSDG goals as the universally accepted benchmark of a sustainable world, the “more than meets the eye”, suds’ benefits are philosophically tallied against them while also zooming at some best practices. Advancing the research, it is identified that very limited awareness about SuDS prevails, and some effective strategies for unsealing are provided in a real-world scenario yielding general recommendations for SuDS implementation in the end.
The dissertation reveals that SuDS align well with the UN SDGs demonstrating their potential to resolve modern urban challenges while catering to the sustainable way ahead.
This study underscores the necessity of re-embracing SuDS as a means to balance urbanization and environmental integrity and, this time as the centerpiece, for more-than just water managing solutions. It also urges that the very first thing to do is fill up the suds literacy gap. The research can be important for professionals working with SuDS and UNSDG goals as it makes us rethink that SuDS have the capacity to rephrase the narratives of not only urban water management systems but whole urban systems in a broader framework.