Stormwater Management in Urban and Rural Areas

Role of Resilience in Sustainable Urban Stormwater Management

Typically, best management practices (BMPs) are implemented to help sustainable stormwater management in urban areas. Over recent decades the selection of urban stormwater management measures for a site has been a challenge among urban planners where thecriterion based on flood volume no longer suffices for selecting urban drainage solutions. Therefore there is a need to consider a set of holis...

Urban Stormwater Management: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Management of stormwater brings considerable economic, social and environmental benefits to the community in various ways. Controlling stormwater quantity is primarily important to prevent urban flooding and water stagnation. Also improving stormwater quality is timely important issue for sustainable management of urban stormwater. Urban development accompanied by increasing in impervious surfa...

Road Extraction in Rural and Urban Areas

An approach for automatic road extraction from digital aerial imagery is presented. The extraction is based on a semantic model for roads. The images are divided into different so-called “global contexts”: rural, forest, and urban. Different parts of the road model and different strategies are used in the different global contexts. In rural areas, a multi-scale approach is employed to find init...

Childhood Asthma in Rural-Urban Areas

Electricity Consumption in Rural vs . Urban Areas

Average Winter electricity consumption for rural residents in Utah is significantly greater than for those living in urban areas. Based on data from a 1980 survey of Utah residents, this rural-urban consumption differential was investigated using multiple regression analysis. It was determined that the stock of electricity-using devices, climate, and demographic characteristics were the most im...