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Planning for a sustainable desert city: The potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-8605
HighlightsUrban water use-heat tradeoff associated with water-saving and fully-greening scenarios are assessed.Ambient temperature in Phoenix is reduced by up to 2°C in daytime with a fully-green city.Water saving by xeriscaping can accommodate up to 20% of Phoenix’s projected population increase impacts.Urban landscape management needs to account for the environmental-social tradeoff.
AbstractUrban green infrastructure offers arid cities an attractive means of mitigation/adaptation to environmental challenges of elevated thermal stress, but imposes the requirement of outdoor irrigation that aggravates the stress of water resource management. Future development of cities is inevitably constrained by the limited availability of water resources, under challenges of emergent climate change and continuous population growth. This study used the Weather Research and Forecasting model with urban dynamics to assess the potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure in arid environments and its implications for sustainable urban planning. The Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States, is adopted as a testbed with water-saving and fully-greening scenarios investigated. Modifications of the existing green infrastructure and irrigation practices are found to significantly influence the thermal environment of Phoenix. In particular, water saving by xeriscaping (0.77±0.05×108m3) allows the region to support 19.8% of the annual water consumption by the projected 2.62 million population growth by 2050, at a cost of an increase in urban ambient temperature of about 1°C.
Planning for a sustainable desert city: The potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-8605
HighlightsUrban water use-heat tradeoff associated with water-saving and fully-greening scenarios are assessed.Ambient temperature in Phoenix is reduced by up to 2°C in daytime with a fully-green city.Water saving by xeriscaping can accommodate up to 20% of Phoenix’s projected population increase impacts.Urban landscape management needs to account for the environmental-social tradeoff.
AbstractUrban green infrastructure offers arid cities an attractive means of mitigation/adaptation to environmental challenges of elevated thermal stress, but imposes the requirement of outdoor irrigation that aggravates the stress of water resource management. Future development of cities is inevitably constrained by the limited availability of water resources, under challenges of emergent climate change and continuous population growth. This study used the Weather Research and Forecasting model with urban dynamics to assess the potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure in arid environments and its implications for sustainable urban planning. The Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States, is adopted as a testbed with water-saving and fully-greening scenarios investigated. Modifications of the existing green infrastructure and irrigation practices are found to significantly influence the thermal environment of Phoenix. In particular, water saving by xeriscaping (0.77±0.05×108m3) allows the region to support 19.8% of the annual water consumption by the projected 2.62 million population growth by 2050, at a cost of an increase in urban ambient temperature of about 1°C.
Planning for a sustainable desert city: The potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-8605
HighlightsUrban water use-heat tradeoff associated with water-saving and fully-greening scenarios are assessed.Ambient temperature in Phoenix is reduced by up to 2°C in daytime with a fully-green city.Water saving by xeriscaping can accommodate up to 20% of Phoenix’s projected population increase impacts.Urban landscape management needs to account for the environmental-social tradeoff.
AbstractUrban green infrastructure offers arid cities an attractive means of mitigation/adaptation to environmental challenges of elevated thermal stress, but imposes the requirement of outdoor irrigation that aggravates the stress of water resource management. Future development of cities is inevitably constrained by the limited availability of water resources, under challenges of emergent climate change and continuous population growth. This study used the Weather Research and Forecasting model with urban dynamics to assess the potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure in arid environments and its implications for sustainable urban planning. The Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States, is adopted as a testbed with water-saving and fully-greening scenarios investigated. Modifications of the existing green infrastructure and irrigation practices are found to significantly influence the thermal environment of Phoenix. In particular, water saving by xeriscaping (0.77±0.05×108m3) allows the region to support 19.8% of the annual water consumption by the projected 2.62 million population growth by 2050, at a cost of an increase in urban ambient temperature of about 1°C.
Planning for a sustainable desert city: The potential water buffering capacity of urban green infrastructure
Yang, Jiachuan (author) / Wang, Zhi-Hua (author)
Landscape and Urban Planning ; 167 ; 339-347
2017-07-20
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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