Redesigning the American Redesigning the American Neighborhood Neighborhood Developing an Ecological & Socioeconomic Developing an Ecological & Socioeconomic Framework for Effective Stormwater Management Framework for Effective Stormwater Management School of Natural Resources Gund Institute of Ecological Economics Alan McIntosh, Breck Bowden, Alexey Voinov, John Todd Alex Hackman, and Tim White School of Natural Resources - UVM
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Redesigning the American NeighborhoodRedesigning the American Neighborhood
Developing an Ecological & Socioeconomic Developing an Ecological & Socioeconomic
Framework for Effective Stormwater ManagementFramework for Effective Stormwater Management
School of Natural ResourcesGund Institute of Ecological Economics
Alan McIntosh, Breck Bowden, Alexey Voinov, John Todd Alex Hackman, and Tim White
School of Natural Resources - UVM
The US at Night (1993 vs 2001)The US at Night (1993 vs 2001)
The National Geographic Society (2001)
Urban Sprawl in New EnglandUrban Sprawl in New England
The National Geographic Society (2001)
• growth• fragmentation• corridors
Urban SprawlUrban Sprawl
Sprawl is dispersed, automobile-dependent development outside of compact urban and village centers along highways and in rural countryside.
Burton and Pitt (2002) Stormwater Effects Handbook
Impaired Impaired LakesLakes
Burton and Pitt (2002) Stormwater Effects Handbook
Redesigning the American NeighborhoodRedesigning the American Neighborhood Developing an Ecological & Socioeconomic Framework Developing an Ecological & Socioeconomic Framework
for Effective Stormwater Management for Effective Stormwater Management
Purpose: To develop tools that will allow stakeholders, regulators, and researchers to visualize alternative future environmental states that they imagine collectively and then to optimize the mix of interventions at various scales, that will best balance environmental and social, as well as economic, criteria.
Effectiveness: known – dependsOrientation: downstream protectionCost: known - highRisk: known - low
Why focus on scale?Why focus on scale?
Clearly, a mix of interventions is desirable. But what mix? For what purpose? Located where?
Primary GoalPrimary Goal
Quantify the balances among environmental, economic, and social costs and benefits for storm water management at whole-watershed, neighborhood, and individual house scales in a typical New England landscape and climate.
Key ObjectivesKey Objectives
• Assessment: What are the opportunities for intervention?
• Evaluation: What are the comparative cost/benefits of these interventions?
• Participation: How can we better involve community stakeholders to devise successful solutions?
• Implementation: Can we demonstrate the these approaches work?
Project Focus AreaProject Focus Area
ButlerButlerFarmFarm
SubdivisionSubdivision
Key CollaborationsKey Collaborations
• US-EPA/SNR-UVM (McIntosh, Bowden, Todd, Voinov)
• Partnership with South Burlington (JB Hoover)
• Collaboration with key consultants (PEC, J Nelson)
• Advice from key stakeholders (Project Working Groups)
• EPA Demonstration grant (JB Hoover)
• NRCD implementation grant (A. Willard, B. Gabos)