Political bodies, planners and the scientific community agree on need for making cities communities resilient sustainable in near future. Urban infrastructures generate too often negative impacts surrounding environment. Hence, it is considered today an absolute priority implementing actions able to optimal relationship between citizens Even field of hydraulic constructions urban hydrology, therefore essential develop water management strategies contribute definition this new paradigm city....

Due to the ever-increasing degree of urbanization, blue and green infrastructures are becoming important tools for achieving stormwater management sustainability in urban areas. Concerning roofs, although scientists have investigated their behaviors under different climates building practices, hydrological performance is still a thought-provoking field research. An event scale analysis based on thirty-five rainfall–runoff events recorded at new set experimental roofs located Southern Italy...

Urban sprawl and soil sealing has gradually led to an impervious surface increase with consequences on the enhancement of flooding risk. During last decades, a hybrid approach involving both traditional storm water detention tanks (SWDTs) low-impact development (LID) resulted in best solution manage urban improve city resilience. This research aimed at modeling comparison between drainage scenarios mentioned (H-SM), (de)centralized LID supporting SWDTs, scenario representative centralized...

As urbanization and climate change continue to pose significant challenges for cities worldwide, green roofs (GRs) has emerged as a viable sustainable solution supporting traditional infrastructure in managing stormwater runoff. Although their hydrological behavior been sufficiently documented literature, conflicting results emerge regarding the potential variations retention capacity (RC) over medium long-term. Based on preliminary investigations, this research aimed at assessing...

ABSTRACT In the realm of sustainable strategies for urban flooding risk mitigation, green roofs (GRs) emerge as a key solution. The complex relationship between hydrological, pedological, and climatic aspects poses several challenges in definition GRs’ medium-term behaviour, emphasizing imperative further research. Embedding pedological climatological evidence, this study focuses on relevant observed changes hydrological performance behaviour two extensive GR test beds located southern Italy...

Urbanization dynamics that affected Italian cities in the last twenty years, led to significant land use changes. This phenomenon, mainly resulted into a progressive extension of impervious surface, gave rise an alteration hydrological cycle and increase urban flooding phenomena. In this scenario, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) particular Green Roofs, topic on which experimental research activities were carried out at University Salerno, can be considered effective solutions useful...

Recent development dynamics of urban centers forced administrations to deal more frequently with problems linked the inability traditional sewer systems manage rainwater in a sustainable and effective manner. Currently, several laws require compliance quantitative qualitative stormwater limits be discharged into watercourses but, parallel "regulatory" approach, integrated strategies are increasingly being developed. A fundamental role is carried out by Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS),...

<p>Recently, particularly invasive urbanization dynamics, resulted into a substantial increase in the urban impervious surface that forced administrations to deal more frequently with inability of traditional drainage systems manage stormwater sustainable and effective manner. Worldwide, integrated approaches, such as Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), whose basic principle is management rainwater at source through implementation prevention, mitigation treatment strategies,...

Green roofs performance is strongly impacted by climatic conditions, design parameters and aging. In particular, the evolution in time of physical chemical properties may lead to substantial changes their retention detention capacity. The growth roots, above all, seems affect interpretation soil water content, a key parameter for GRs performance. Generally, Frequency Domain Reflectometry sensors are used assessment volumetric content but they require calibration procedure order obtain...