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    @conference {3232,
    	title = {Evaluation of synergetic opportunities between Nature Base Solutions and sewer networks and processes.},
    	journal = {9th International Conference on Sewer Processes \& Networks},
    	year = {2019},
    	note = {

    Evaluation of synergetic opportunities between Nature Base Solutions and sewer networks and processes. Paulo J. Ram{\'\i}sio , Maria do C{\'e}u Almeida.. 9th International Conference on Sewer Processes and Networks (SPN9). Aalborg, Denmark, 27-30 august 2019.

    }, month = {2019-08-27 00:00:00}, address = {Aalborg, Denmark}, abstract = {

    Since 2007 more than half of the world population is concentrated in urban areas. Not surprisingly, managing urban areas is one of the most important development challenges of the 21st\ century (UN DESA, 2014).
    The high urban growth, the imperviousness of urban centres, and the changes of meteorological patterns, has been giving rise to situations in which urban drainage systems are absent or insufficient to provide the expected performance for which they were initially designed.

    The desired integrated management of different utilities is often not possible (due to different management agendas and financing sources). This issue is aggravated by the location of these infrastructures, mostly underground, subject to an aggressive environment, being pathologies difficult to detect.

    Understanding of the systems{\textquoteright}\ behaviour is complex given limited knowledge of nature and characteristics of the infrastructure and, sometimes even the location is uncertain. Consequently, the implementation of effective operation procedures and the design of effective corrective measures is a challenge.

    Runoff has an intermittent nature, with high peak flows, that transport particles and pollutants from roads and other surfaces, including heavy metals and micro organic compounds (Ramisio and Vieira, 2012). Due to a diffuse origin, intermittent nature, and presence of non-biodegradable pollutants, urban runoff represents a big challenge, affecting the processes in sewers and in WWTP.

    Nature Base Solutions\ (NBS) can be effective for flow control and retention of pollutants, including heavy metals. Therefore, the inclusion of NBS throughout the catchments could represent an opportunity to address the above-mentioned problems with the benefit of promoting the liveability of cities, the quality of life, and enabling sewer systems to evolve from being passive to active adaptive units that can respond differently depending on the given situation (Kerkez et al., 2016).

    }, keywords = {Nature Base Solutions, urban drainage, urban runoff}, author = {Ram{\'\i}sio, P. J. and Almeida, M. C.} }

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    The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.

    Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more


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