Water

In Part two, will investigate natural methods of coastal protection, learn about an innovative new rating system for waterfronts the Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG), dive into some real life examples of coastal protection, and discuss the importance community resilience in coastal areas.

In part one of this course, we will define resilience, examine the impact of climate change on coastal communities, discuss the different types of risk that coastal communities face and investigate standard engineered coastal protection methods.

In this course, we focus on the use of green infrastructure systems to manage stormwater run-off from urban and agricultural areas. We discuss how natural water cycles are disrupted by land-use change and how green stormwater infrastructure systems can be a cost-effect solution to mitigate water pollution while providing co-benefits to local communities. Objectives Learn …

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Green Infrastructure was a part of human society long before the term green infrastructure was coined, but it is becoming an increasingly important tool as our population grows and land-use change threatens the natural areas we rely on for essential ecosystem services. In this course, we focus on the use of green infrastructure systems to …

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This presentation will look into the various legal issues regarding stormwater management and what may be mandatory in the future. We will also look at advanced stormwater management strategies like environmental site design, rainwater harvesting, and treatment trains.