Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers

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dc.contributor.authorRippy, Megan A.en
dc.contributor.authorPierce, Gregoryen
dc.contributor.authorFeldman, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorWinfrey, Brandonen
dc.contributor.authorMehring, Andrew S.en
dc.contributor.authorHolden, Patricia A.en
dc.contributor.authorAmbrose, Richarden
dc.contributor.authorLevin, Lisa A.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T17:54:53Zen
dc.date.available2023-04-18T17:54:53Zen
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.description.abstract1. Natural treatment systems (NTS) for stormwater have the potential to provide a myriad of ecosystem services to society. Realizing this potential requires active collaboration among engineers, ecologists and landscape planners and begins with a paradigm shift in communication whereby these groups are made aware of each other's perceptions about NTS and the presence of knowledge gaps that their respective disciplines can bridge. 2. Here we participate in the first part of what we hope will be a reciprocal exchange: presenting results from a landscape perceptions survey to urban planners, ecologists and landscape architects that illustrates how the next generation of engineers perceives NTS relative to other landscape features, and the implications of those perceptions for future infrastructure development. 3. Our results suggest that although lawns, gardens and native ecosystems were perceived as multifunctional, providing characteristic bundles of services/disservices, perceptions of NTS were more variable (i.e. there was no social norm for their perception). 4. Environmental worldviews, knowledge, attitudes about ecosystem services and demographics were all significant drivers of perceived services. However, students had difficulty identifying NTS correctly, and factual knowledge about NTS did not help students associate NTS with typical design services like flood reduction more than features not designed for those purposes, such as lawns. This suggests that engineering students lack familiarity with the outward appearance of NTS and have difficulty placing NTS services into a broader landscape context. 5. Expertise from urban planning and ecology could help bridge these knowledge gaps, improving the capacity of tomorrow's engineers to co-design NTS to meet diverse community needs.en
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding was provided by the University of California Office of the President, Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives, Grant ID MRP-17- 455083 and an NSF Growing Convergence Research award (NSF #2021015). This work was also supported in part by Virginia Tech’s Open Access Subvention Fund (VT OASF).en
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dc.identifier.citationRippy, M.A., Pierce, G., Feldman, D., Winfrey, B., Mehring, A.S., Holden, P.A., Ambrose, R. & Levin, L.A. (2022). Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers. People and Nature, 4, 481–504. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10300 25758314en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10300en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/114560en
dc.identifier.volume4en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectecosystem servicesen
dc.subjectgreen infrastructureen
dc.subjectgreen stormwater infrastructureen
dc.subjectlandscape perceptionen
dc.titlePerceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designersen
dc.title.serialPeople and Natureen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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