Effects of urbanisation on the water balance – A long-term trajectory

摘要: Abstract The amount of land consumption required for housing and transport severely conflicts with both the necessity legal obligation to maintain ecological potential afforded by open spaces meet needs current future generations regards protection resources climate change. Owing an increasing intensity soil use, conditions appear have deteriorated in most city regions around world, namely their filter runoff regulating functions are impaired surfacing. As such depend on soil's biophysical properties degree imperviousness, impact water balance caused urban growth varies considerably. In response demand sustainably secure resources, it be assessed exactly how surfacing affects concerned. Analysing evaluating use change long-term should improve our understanding urbanisation household. Therefore, this paper analyses over a 130-year trajectory using simple model approaches that based data available public. test site is Leipzig. particular, attention paid estimating changes evapotranspiration, direct groundwater recharge.