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Selected papers from the Second National Low Impact Development Conference, held in Wilmington, North Carolina, March 12-14, 2007.

Low impact development (LID) began as an environmentally friendly method to conserve natural water sources, manage stormwater runoff, and preserve water quality. Today, LID encompasses methods of construction and engineering that preserve the ecosystem as a whole. This report contains 32 selected papers that specifically highlight new and continuing low impact practices, including research, recent developments, and community adoption and acceptance....

Selected papers from the 2011 Low Impact Development Conference, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25-28, 2011. Sponsored by the Low Impact Development Committee of the Urban Water Resources Research Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE

As federal, state, and local governments realize that traditional approaches to stormwater management are not achieving the desired environmental protection goals, they are increasingly adopting low impact development (LID) technology as the preferred approach to stormwater management in land development and...

Selected papers from the 2011 Low Impact Development Conference, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 25-28, 2011. Sponsored by the Low Impact Development Committee of the Urban Water Resources Research Council of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE

In site development, the rapid adoption of low impact development (LID) technology for stormwater management can create conflicts among the various municipal agencies tasked with overseeing land use decisions. Low Impact Development Technology: Implementation and Economics contains nine papers that...

The corrections field, and community corrections in particular, has long experienced tensions between its two main missions, protecting public safety and rehabilitating offenders. Treatment-oriented strategies that had as their goal the reintegration of offenders into society have contended with deterrence-oriented strategies based on apparent findings that "nothing works" in treating offenders. In recent years, the development and application of evidence-based practices (EBP)-practices informed by the results of scientific research and shown to increase public safety and reduce...