Planning and implementation of sustainable stormwater management systems in the City of Vancouver : the green roof example

Imagine a city that utilizes the rain that falls on it as a resource instead of managing it as a waste. This city is planned, designed and engineered in ways that help to preserve and bolster the ecosystem within which it sits. The costs to the taxpayer are lower than other municipalities that ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lancaster, Thomas
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17685