Urban Storm Water Management and Its Challenges

Abstract

Considering the climate change and the global issue in which human capacity to control floods is exceeded, this article is an approach to the topic of international concern "urban storm water management". Thus, in this paper it will be presented measures which the public and local governments should adopt in order to prevent the catastrophic effect that climate change may have both on the anthropic space and on the natural space in urban areas. Being a recent attitude for planning the city of the future, this approach presents an initiation of specialists (engineers, architects, town planners, landscape architects, etc.) in an interdisciplinary research, provided by the interrelation of urban dimension with engineering size.

Keywords

• Climate change
• floods
• stormwater management
• interdisciplinary research