Sustainable Flood Risk and Stormwater Management in Blue‐Green Cities; an Interdisciplinary Case Study in Portland, Oregon
| dc.contributor.author | O’Donnell, Emily C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thorne, Colin R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yeakley, J. Alan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chan, Faith Ka Shun | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-17T19:44:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-17T19:44:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-07-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Blue‐Green Infrastructure (BGI) is recognized as a viable strategy to manage stormwater and flood risk, and its multifunctionality may further enrich society through the provision of multiple cobenefits that extend far beyond the hydrosphere. Portland, Oregon, is an internationally renowned leader in the implementation of BGI and showcases many best practice examples. Nonetheless, a range of interdisciplinary barriers and uncertainties continue to cloud decision making and impede wider implementation of BGI. In this paper, we synthesize research conducted by the “Clean Water for All” (CWfA) research project and demonstrate that interdisciplinary evaluation of the benefits of Portland’s BGI, focusing on green street bioswales and the East Lents Floodplain Restoration Project, is essential to address biophysical and sociopolitical barriers. Effective interdisciplinary approaches require sustained interaction and collaboration to integrate disciplinary expertise toward a common problem‐solving purpose, and strong leadership from researchers adapt at spanning disciplinary boundaries. While the disciplinary differences in methodologies were embraced in the CWfA project, and pivotal to providing evidence of the disparate benefits of multifunctional BGI, cross‐disciplinary engagement, knowledge coproduction, and data exchanges during the research process were of paramount importance to reduce the potential for fragmentation and ensure research remained integrated. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research was performed as part of an interdisciplinary pro-ject program undertaken by the Blue-Green Cities Research Con-sortium (www.bluegreencities.ac.uk) and Portland-VancouverULTRA project (www.fsl.orst.edu/eco-p/ultra) as part of the EPSRC“CWfA” initiative. This work was supported by the Engineeringand Physical Sciences Research Council (grant numbers EP/K013661/1, EP/N008103/1); the U.S. National Science Foundation(grant number 0948983); the National Natural Science Foundationof China (grant number NSFC41850410497): and the Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology (grant number201401C5008005). Additional contributions were received from theUK Environment Agency, Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland), andInstitute for Sustainable Solutions (Portland State University). Wethank the City of Portland BES and Johnson Creek WatershedCouncil for their kind support and sharing of data and expertise.We further thank the Reviewers for their valuable comments andsuggestions, which helped us to improve the quality of the manu-script. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12854 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 19 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m26jjf-lpya | |
| dc.identifier.citation | O’Donnell, Emily C.; Thorne, Colin R.; Yeakley, J. Alan; Chan, Faith Ka Shun; Sustainable Flood Risk and Stormwater Management in Blue‐Green Cities; an Interdisciplinary Case Study in Portland, Oregon; Paper No. JAWRA‐19‐0072‐P of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) (2020); https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.12854 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12854 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19450 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wiley Online Library | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.title | Sustainable Flood Risk and Stormwater Management in Blue‐Green Cities; an Interdisciplinary Case Study in Portland, Oregon | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |