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Reducing Urban Entropy Employing Nature-Based Solutions: The Case of Urban Storm Water Management

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This paper presents the theory behind the concept of low-entropy cities based on the second law of thermodynamics. This concept aims to provide a bridge among different approaches on city sustainability studies, highlighting the links between natural processes and the socio-ecological complexity of urban systems. A practical low-entropy application is then proposed for urban storm water management, examining the planning of nature-based solutions with the support of a modelling approach. A further novelty of this work is the attempt to combine entropy with resilience assessment for urban green infrastructure planning.

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    Raffaele Pelorosso, Federica Gobattoni & Antonio Leone

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Pelorosso, R., Gobattoni, F., Leone, A. (2018). Reducing Urban Entropy Employing Nature-Based Solutions: The Case of Urban Storm Water Management. In: Papa, R., Fistola, R., Gargiulo, C. (eds) Smart Planning: Sustainability and Mobility in the Age of Change. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77682-8_3

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