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Evaluating the Ecological Efficacy of Low
Impact
Urban Design and Development
评价低影响设计与开发的生态功效
van Roon, M.R. and S. Moore
Centre
for
Urban
Ecosystem
Sustainability
(University
of
Auckland,
Landcare
Research)
Proceedings
Sustainable Engineering and Science Conference,
Auckland, NZ, 6-9 July 2004
Abstract
摘要
It is anticipated that implementation
of low impact urban design and development (LIUDD)
on a catchment scale will lead to a
quantum leap in ecological improvement in both
terrestrial and
aquatic environments.
One of the primary objectives in LIUDD is the
achievement of hydrological
neutrality,
that is a nil or minimal change in the hydrologic
regime. This might be measured using
indicators
of
water
body
functionality
and
sustainability.
One
of
the
anticipated
outcomes
of
improved hydrological
stability throughout and after the development
process is the retention of
aquatic
ecosystem health and biodiversity. In addition,
the achievement of hydrological neutrality
demands
much
higher
catchment
coverage
with
vegetation
of
high
biomass,
ensuring
high
evapotranspiration
rates.
This
is
particularly
necessary
in
locations
where
soils
have
limited
infiltration
capacity. Much of this vegetation is likely to be
within riparian margins where it can
contribute to both terrestrial and
aquatic biodiversity enhancement and improve water
quality. This
paper
explores
the
type
of
research
framework
that
might
be
developed
to
measure
these
ecological
gains.
This
would
include
the
monitoring
of
low
impact
developments
to
determine
gains
in
physicochemical
condition
and
biotic
integrity
relative
to
that
in
conventionally
developed
urban catchments.
可以预期的是,
在流域
层面上实施低影响城市设计和开发
(
LIUDD
)
,将大大改善区域
的水陆生态环境。
LIUDD
的主要目标之一是保持水文特征不变,最大限度的减少对生态水
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文条件的改变。
水文特征可以采用功能性和可持续性的水体指标来表
征。
提高水文稳定性的
预期成果之一是在整个开发过程中和之后
的阶段保持水生生态系统的健康与生物多样性。
此
外,
保持流域水文特征不变还需要通过提高流域高生物量植被的覆盖率以确保比较高的蒸腾
率来实现,
这种方法尤其适用于土壤渗透能力有限的地区。
选用的植被大部分属于河畔植物,
该类植物能够提高水陆生物多样性和改善水质
。
本文探讨了经过开发可能用于衡量生态效益
的研究框架类型。
也包括对低影响开发的检测,
以确定在物化条件和生物的完整性
方面相对
于传统开发的城市集水区的收益。
1 Introduction
1
前言
Achievement of
sustainable cities, as intended by the New Zealand
Government programme
of
action
for
sustainable
development
(MfE2003),
necessitates
avoidance
of
the
level
of
degradation
of
receiving
water
ecosystems
typical
of
past
urbanisation.
This
degradation
has
resulted from changes in hydrological
regime, contaminant burden and habitat alteration,
that has
accompanied conventional
urbanisation.
为实现可持续发展,新西兰政
府为可持续发展做的行动计划,有必要终止过去城市发
展中使纳污水体水生态环境退化的
一切行为。
河流水文状况的改变、
污染物负荷增加以及生
物栖息地的破坏导致了这种退化的发生,并且它伴随了传统城市化发展的始终。
In
order
to
increase
economic,
ecological
and
social
components
of
urban
sustainability
simultaneously, management of the total
urban water cycle should be integrated into urban
design
and development (van Roon and
Knight 2004; Lloyd et al. 2001).
故为了提高城
市经济发展、生态环境状况同时又促进其可持续发展,必须将城市水循
环的管理纳入城市
设计和发展的规划中。
The
Centre
for
Urban
Ecosystem
Sustainability
(CUES,
a
partnership
between
Auckland
University and
Landcare Research) is pursuing a research
programme (Eason et al. 2003)directed
at
making
Low
Impact
Urban Design
and Development
(LIUDD)
mainstream
in
New
Zealand.
The
five
objectives
of
the
programme
target
stakeholder
buy-in,
changing
plans
and
policies,
testing technologies, comparative
catchment studies and economic efficiencies.
城市生态系统可持续发展中心(
CU
ES
,由奥克兰大学和土地保护研究合作成立)正在
从事一项研
究项目,该项目旨在引领新西兰
LIUDD
发展的主流。该项目
的五个任务分别是
招商引资、改变相关方案和政策、测试相关技术、研究相似规模流域和
带来经济效益。
LIUDD is
derived from Low Impact Development (LID), which
has its origins in the United
States
of
America.
LID
is
focused
on
alternative
stormwater
management
that
utilises
natural
drainage features (Shaver 2000) in the
landscape rather than piped systems. LID is
alternatively
termed Water Sensitive
Urban Design (WSUD) in Australia.
LIUDD
源自城市低影响开发(
LID
)
,
LID
最先起源于美国。
< br>LID
重点在于转换雨水管
理模式,
在当地充分利用自然界中排水方式处置雨水而不是采用管网排水系统。
LID
在澳大
利亚又被称作水敏感城市设计(
WSU
D
)
。
LID
has
been
extended
in
Washington
State
by
Holz
(2002)
who
promotes
‘Zero
Impact
Design’ (ZID) within which development
must adhere to characteristics of a healthy
watershed, no
stormwater
is
collected
and
released,
broad
stream
buffers
are
maintained,
stream
and
road
crossings
are
minimised.
This
necessitates
the
retention
or
re-
creation
of
predevelopment
or
natural hydrological
conditions to the maximum extent possible (City of
Lacey
2002).
Hol
z
将
LID
引入华盛顿州,他倡导“<
/p>
0
影响设计”
(
ZID
)
,在这种理念下城市开发必
须
坚持健康的发展特色,
不建设雨水的收集和排放基础设施,
而是
建设大面积的水体缓冲区,
同时尽量避免水体和道路的交叉。
这
就需要最大程度的保留自然水文条件或者重新规划前期
的发展
.
ZID
retains
the
critical
functions
of
a
forest
including
evapotranspiration
and
infiltration
after site
development such that near ‘zero effective
impervious surface’ area is achieved (City of
Lacey
2002).
Holz
(2002)
considers
that
in
Washington
State
sixty
percent
or
more
of
the
watershed should be retained in
indigenous forest.
一个区域经过
ZID
开发后,仍旧具有像森林系统那样的蒸腾和渗透功能,因此接近零
有效不透水表面的地区得已实现。
Holz
认为华盛顿州大于
60%
的集水区应当设置在天然树
林中
。
The
definition
of
LID
in
New
Zealand
and
particularly
within
CUES
is
evolving
well
beyond a stormwater management process
into what we now term LIUDD. It is an urban design
method
that
is
expected
to
protect
aquatic
and
terrestrial
ecological
integrity,
improve
urban
amenity
and
reduce
the
cost
of
infrastructure
while
accommodating
increasing
population
densities.
在新西兰尤其是
CUES
内对于
LID
的服务范围不
仅仅限定于治理暴雨,对于城市建设
的其它方面也进展的非常好,这样就演变为今天的<
/p>
LIUDD
。
LIUDD
是一个致力于保护水生
和陆生生态完整性,
提高城市舒
适度,
降低城市基础设施费用同时又能适应不断增长的人口
密度
的城市设计方法。
The
biotic
integrity
of
terrestrial,
stream,
and
either
lake
or
estuarine
ecosystems
form
a
hierarchical
co-dependence.
Healthy
stream
ecosystems
throughout
a
catchment
are
therefore
a
sound
indicator of the health of co-dependent ecosystems
up and down stream. The monitoring of
stream ecosystem health is expected to
give a cumulative assessment of the combined
benefits of
diverse in-catchment LIUDD
practices.
陆地、
河流以及无论湖还是河口生态系
统中的生物完整性形成了一个有层次的共生体。
一个流域中河流生态系统的健康程度可以
反映整个流域中共生生态系统的健康与否。
通过检
测河流生态系
统的健康程度可以累计评价流域中实施的
LIUDD
措施的综合
作用。
Following
a
brief
review
of
the
relationships
between
stream
ecosystem
condition
and
measures
of
conventional
urbanisation
such
as
impervious
surface
area,
this
paper
compares
stream ecosystem
condition in four Waitakere catchments with
varying land use. Catchment land
use
ranges
from
semi-
forested
and
pastoral
(lifestyle
blocks)
through
to
conventional
urban
residential.
下面简
单的回顾下传统的城市化当中流域生态系统环境和城市措施之间的关系,例如
表面不透水
区域;本文比较了土地利用情况不同的四个
Waitakere
流域的河流生态系统状
况。流域中的土地利用状况既有未开发的区域也有乡村以及传统
的城市居住区。
Results
are
then
used
as
a
basis
for
envisioning
alternative
residential
design
and
development
scenarios
(to
be
monitored)
that
avoid
characteristics
giving
rise
to
aquatic
and
terrestrial biodiversity
degradation in conventional developments.
< br>这些结果可以为未来新型住宅区设计以及发展规划提供基础,避免出现传统城市化发
展中水生和陆生生物多样性退化的情况。
2 Urban use
–
aquatic biotic integrity relationship
2
城市建设
-
水生生物完整性的关系
p>
The
ecological
justification
for
LIUDD
comes
from
research
demonstrating
the
loss
of
aquatic ecological integrity in
catchments subjected to varying degrees of human
disturbance. This
disturbance may be
anything from recreational use of forested
catchments to high-density urban
use
with 100 percent effective1 impervious surfaces. <
/p>
对于
LIUDD
生态论证来自于对不同人
为干扰程度下的流域水生态完整性损失分析的
研究。
从森林集水
区的游憩利用到高密度城市百分百应用不透水表面的各个方面都可能产生
这种干扰。
p>
The percentage of
a catchment covered in impervious surfaces has
frequently been used as a
measure
of
the
intensity
of
urbanisation.
Higher
storm
discharges
also
facilitate
transference
of
damaging fine sediments
and toxic contaminants from urban surfaces to
receiving ecosystems.
流域不透水
层表面的覆盖率常被用作衡量城市化程度的标尺。高强度雨水的排放也促
使破坏性的细粒
沉积物和有毒污染物从城市表面向生态系统的转移。
Over
the
past
three
decades
stormwater
management
focussed
on
the
construction
of
stormwater
detention
technologies
that
contributed
to
a
reduction
of
these
adverse
hydrological
effects but did
little to address the primary land-based causes,
beyond the riparian zone, of aquatic
ecosystem degradation.
在过去的三
十多年,雨水管理的重点放在了雨水截留设施的建设上,虽然减少了不利
的水文效应,但
是在除了河岸带之外的水生生态系统退化的基础土地问题上几乎不起作用。
Measures of aquatic biotic
integrity have been widely used, including in the
USA and New
Zealand,
to
monitor
the
effects
of
catchment
use
and
urbanisation.
Biotic
indices
are
based
on
information
on
complete
assemblages
of
macroinvertebrate
organisms
and
are
designed
to
simplify a mix of complex community
data (MfE 1999).
美国和新西兰已经广泛
采用水生生物完整性指标来反映流域土地利用情况和城市化程
度。
基于大型底栖动物生物组合完整性信息的生物指数法旨在简化融为一体的复杂的群落数
据
(MfE 1999)
。
Research in Washington
streams (USA) showed that the Benthic Biotic Index
(B-IBI) fell by
half after only five
percent of the catchment was converted to
impervious surfaces (Horner and
May
1999). The installation in catchments of various
Best Management Practices (both structural
and non-structural) provided very
limited mitigation (Horner and May 1999; Maxted
and Shaver
1997).
在华盛顿河流(
USA
)的调查表明,仅占流域百分之五的面积变成不透水层后,底栖
生物指数就下降了一半
(Horner and May 19
99)
。而流域中实行的各种最佳管理措施(结构性
和非结构性
)对其缓解作用都非常有限
(Horner and May 1999;
Maxted and Shaver 1997)
。
Similar
New
Zealand
research
(Allibone
2001)
shows
a
loss
of
half
of
indicative
EPT2
species
with
15
percent
of
the
catchment
in
impervious
surfaces.
These
researchers
have
concluded that in order
to retain a high quality aquatic ecosystem, it is
necessary to limit effective
impervious
surfaces to below 15 percent of the catchment.
新西兰类似的研究
(Allibone
2001)
表明流域不透水面积增加
15%
< br>就会导致
EPT
种群的
数量减少
一半。
研究表明要想维持一个高质量的水生生态系统,
需将不透
水面积限制在流域
面积的
15%
以下。
The
hydrological
and
water
quality
changes
in
urban
streams
resulting
from
increased
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