Team Member: Sarah Kaykhosravi

About Sarah Kaykhosravi

PhD Candidate

Interested in: Hydrology, Hydraulic, Flood management, Geospatial data analysis (via python), Sustainable and low impact development, Stormwater and wastewater networks, Decisions-making systems (geospatial and temporal) 

Email me: saherehk@yorku.ca

Platforms

Research Project

Low Impact Development (LlD), Optimized and cost-effective LID types

The primary goal of low impact development (LID) is to capture urban stormwater runoff; however, multiple indirect benefits (environmental and socioeconomic benefits) also exist (e.g., improvements to human health and decreased air pollution). Identifying sites with the highest demand or need for LID ensures the maximization of all benefits. This is a spatial decision-making problem that has not been widely addressed in the literature and was the focus of this research.

Publications

Kaykhosravi, S.; Khan, U.T.; Jadidi, M.A. The Effect of Climate Change and Urbanization on the Demand for Low Impact Development for Three Canadian Cities. Water 2020, 12, 1280. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051280

Link | Keywords: climate change; urbanization; low impact development; stormwater; urban runoff; Toronto; Montreal; Vancouver; flooding; geospatial modeling

S. Keykhosravi, U. Khan, M.A. Jadidi, “An investigation of the effect of climate change and urbanization on the demand for Low Impact Development for three Canadian cities”, Water 2020, 12, 1280; doi:10.3390/w12051280, 2020.

Link | Keywords: climate change; urbanization; low impact development; stormwater; urban runoff; Toronto; Montreal; Vancouver; flooding; geospatial modeling

S. Keykhosravi, U. Khan, M.A. Jadidi, “The Low Impact Development Demand Index: A new approach to identify locations for LID”, Water 2019, 11(11), 2341.

Link | Keywords: low impact development; sustainable urban drainage systems; stormwater modelling; urban development; GIS; SAW; decision-making; strategic planning; spatial analysis

S. Keykhosravi, U. Khan, M.A. Jadidi, “A comprehensive review on modeling low impact development (LID) techniques in a lab, large and small scales watersheds”, Water, 2018, 10, 1541; doi:10.3390/w10111541.

Link | Keywords: low impact development; sustainable urban drainage systems; stormwater modelling; numerical modelling; water resources; stormwater collection networks; green infrastructure