Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes. The expansion of global urban areas has resulted in marked alterations to natural processes, environmental quality and natural resource consumption. The urban landscape influences infiltration and evapotranspiration, complicating our capacity to quantify their dynamics across a heterogeneous landscape at contrasting scales. Impervious surfaces exacerbate runoff processes, whereas runoff from pervious areas remains uncertain owing to variable infiltration dynamics. Increasingly, the link between the natural hydrological cycle and…

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  Sight Research UK

  Awards: NE/K002317/1, NE/K002422/1
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  Natural Environment Research Council

  Awards: NE/K002317/1, NE/K002317/1, NE/K002422/1