Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Water sensitivity is the city’s capacity to avoid water scarcity, flooding or waterways pollution, to express the community’s values and aspirations regarding water and to quickly adapt to urban growth and climate change. The article introduces the concept of water sensitive approach, developed for extreme climates, to different urban areas with a moderate climate and a low rate of water related disasters. Brussels Capital Region, the selected case study, has high institutional, technical, social and funding capacities to make a leap frog towards water sensitive practices in urban planning and design. Considering the city’s large impermeable areas, demographical growth, density, and higher rate of precipitation every year, the administration has to change the current water management practices. In this idea, the transition to water sensitivity could come from storm water management practices. There is a large interest worldwide for sensitive storm water management practices and in order to be applied for Brussels’ territory, an evaluation of their potential is necessary. |
