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Dealing With Stormwater Runoff In Urban Areas Is A Problem That Is Getting Bigger And More Expensive. As We Cover Porous Surfaces With Impervious Structures—commercial Buildings, Parking Lots, Roads, And Houses—finding Places For Rainwater And Snowmelt To Soak In Becomes Harder. Many Landscapers, Architects, Planners, And Others Have Proposed That The Use Of Green Localized Management Practices, Such As Rain Gardens And Bio-swales, May Function As Well As Traditional Gray Pipes And Basins At Reducing The Effects Of Stormwater Runoff, And Do So In A Way That Is More Attractive In The Landscape—and Possibly Also Less Expensive. To Make Stormwater Management Practices Work, However, Communities Need To Know The Real Costs And Policy Makers Need To Give People Incentives To Adopt The Best Practices. Economic Incentives For Stormwater Control Addresses The True Costs And Benefits Of Stormwater Management Practices (smps) And Examines The Incentives That Can Be Used To Encourage Their Adoption. Highlighting The Economic Aspects, This Practical Book Offers Case Studies Of The Application Of Various Stormwater Runoff Control Policies. It Also Presents The Theory Behind The Different Mechan

Author

editor, Hale W. Thurston

Publisher

Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439845615

Subjects

Political Science, Engineering, Economics