Sustainable surface water management : a handbook for SUDS / edited by Susanne M. Charlesworth, reader in urban physical geography, and director of sustainable drainage applied research, Department of Geography, Environment and Disaster Management Coventry University, Colin A. Booth, associate professor of sustainability, and associate head of research and scholarship, Construction and Property Research Centre, University of the West of England

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; About the Editors; Section 1 Introduction to the Book; Chapter 1 An Overture of Sustainable Surface Water Management; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Surface Water Management; 1.3 Sustainable Surface Water Management; 1.4 Organisation of the Book; References; Section 2 Sustainable Surface Water Management in Context ; Chapter 2 Back to the Future? History and Contemporary Application of Sustainable Drainage Techniques; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2'Sustainability'?; 2.3 Rainwater Harvesting in Antiquity; 2.4 Water Quality Improvement

2.5 Water Quantity Reduction: Sub-Surface Drainage 2.6 Water Storage; 2.7 Reduction in Water Demand: Greywater Recycling; 2.8 Reducing Water Velocity; 2.9 Non-Structural Approaches to Sustainable Water Management ; 2.10 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3 Surface Water Strategy, Policy and Legislation; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Legislative Hierarchies; 3.3 Case Study - The United Kingdom; 3.4 Comparison of UK Approaches with Other Countries; 3.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 Sustainable Drainage Systems: Operation and Maintenance; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 What is Operation and Maintenance and Why is it Important?4.3 Inspection, Reporting and Maintenance; 4.4 Maintenance Schedules and Planned Maintenance; 4.5 Other Considerations that Will Impact on Maintenance; 4.6 Conclusions; References; Section 3 Functions of Sustainable Drainage Systems ; Chapter 5 Water Quantity: Attenuation of the Storm Peak; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Conventional Drainage, Water Flow and Volume; 5.3 Existing Flood Management; 5.4 Water Quantity; 5.5 History of SuDS Implementation; 5.6 The Management Train; 5.7 Retrofit; 5.8 New Build; 5.9 Flow Control; 5.10 Conclusions

7.3 SuDS and How They Support Biodiversity7.4 Involving People; 7.5 Designing SuDS for People and Wildlife; 7.6 SuDS Management Trains and Their Wildlife Benefits; 7.7 Community Managed and Wildlife-Rich SuDS -- a Case Study of Springhill Cohousing, Stroud, Gloucestershire ; References; Chapter 8 Amenity: Delivering Value for Society; 8.1 Emergence of the Amenity Concept; 8.2 Amenity, Recreation and Biodiversity in the Built Environment; 8.3 SuDS Amenity and Sustainable Development; 8.4 Reviewing the Public Perception of the Concept of Amenity and SuDS; 8.5 Conclusions; References