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Urban Stormwater Governance: The Need for a Paradigm Shift

Dhakal, Krishna P., Chevalier, Lizette R.·2016·Environmental Management
DOI 10.1007/s00267-016-0667-5
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Traditional urban stormwater management involves rapid removal of stormwater through centralized conveyance systems of curb-gutter-pipe networks. This results in many adverse impacts on the environment including hydrological disruption, groundwater depletion, downstream flooding, receiving water quality degradation, channel erosion, and stream ecosystem damage. In order to mitigate these adverse impacts, urban stormwater managers are increasingly using green infrastructure that promote on-site infiltration, restore hydrological functions of the landscape, and reduce surface runoff. Existing stormwater governance, however, is centralized and structured to support the conventional systems. This governance approach is not suited to the emerging distributed management approach, which involves multiple stakeholders including parcel owners, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations. This incongruence between technology and governance calls for a paradigm shift in the governance from centralized and technocratic to distributed and participatory governance. This paper evaluates how five US cities have been adjusting their governance to address the discord. Finally, the paper proposes an alternative governance model, which provides a mechanism to involve stakeholders and implement distributed green infrastructure under an integrative framework.

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  • In China, the design of "sponge cities" through green infrastructure approaches for urban stormwater management is expanding.

    “Yet in China, the design of “sponge cities” through green infrastructure approaches for urban stormwater management is expanding (104, 105).”

    From Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions (2025) · cites this paper as [104]

  • Stormwater management is not typically recognized by community members as a utility service, which residents generally accept require taxes or fees for service.

    “A complicating factor (particularly for funding) is that stormwater management is not typically recognized by community members as a utility service (e.g., drinking water management or waste management), which residents generally accept require taxes or fees for service (National Research Council (NRC) 2009;Dhakal and Chevalier 2016).”

    From Phase II MS4 challenges: moving toward effective stormwater management for small municipalities (2022) · cites this paper as Dhakal and Chevalier 2016

  • The central challenge is regulating a diffuse, nonpoint source of pollution (stormwater) using local authority, with little control over large portions of the stormwater source (private properties), and limited funding to implement actions.

    “The central challenge is regulating a diffuse, nonpoint source of pollution (i.e., stormwater) using local authority, with little control over large portions of the stormwater source (i.e., private properties), and limited funding to implement actions (Backhaus et al. 2012;Dhakal and Chevalier 2016;Subramanian 2016).”

    From Phase II MS4 challenges: moving toward effective stormwater management for small municipalities (2022) · cites this paper as Dhakal and Chevalier 2016

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Authors
Dhakal, K. P., & Chevalier, L. R.
Affiliations
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (US)
Corresponding author
Dhakal, Krishna P.
ORCID
Dhakal, Krishna P.
Venue
Environmental Management
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-02-02
Volume
57
Issue
5
Pages
1112-1124
ISSN
  • 0364-152X (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-1009
DOI
10.1007/s00267-016-0667-5
OpenAlex
W2254608429
Cited by
178
References
58
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 1
FWCI
8.12
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Environmental Management (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Integrated Water Resources Management
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Keywords
green infrastructure, participatory governance, stakeholder engagement, urban hydrology, surface runoff reduction, American cities
MeSH terms
Cities, Conservation of Natural Resources, Environmental Monitoring, Illinois, Models, Theoretical, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rain, Washington, Ecosystem, Floods, Environmental Policy, Water Quality

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