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Hydrology of urban areas
| Author: |
Jens, S.W. and M.E.. McPherson |
| Date: |
1964 |
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In: V.T. Chow, ed. Handbook of Applied Hydrology: A Compendium of Water Resources Technology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company |
| Abstract: |
The continuing growth and concentration of population and industry in urban and suburban areas in recent decades has caused a complex merging of social, economic and physical problems. The interrelationships of man and his use and development of the land and water resources are a particularly significant aspect of urbanization, but there has been relatively little study to date of the effect of urban man upon natural hydrologic conditions. Their analysis of the hydrologic effects during a selected sequence of changes in land and water use associated with urbanization are summarized in Table 20-1. They classify the generic hydrologic effects of urbanization according to (1) the sequence of usual occurrence, (2) changes separately associated with man's use of water and man's use of the land, (3) type of hydrologic process affected, or (4) changes affecting quantity- of water on the one hand and quality of water on the other. |
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