Urban Water Management for Future Cities: Technical and Institutional Aspects from Chinese and German Perspective (Future City Book 12)

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations. Both technical and institutional pathways to sustainable urban water management are developed on the basis of a broad, interdisciplinary problem analysis. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Urban Stormwater Management and Sponge City Concept in China (Wu Che, Wei Zhang)....Pages 3-11 Maintenance and Safety of Sponge City Infrastructure (Stephan Köster)....Pages 13-55 Future-oriented Strategic Planning of Wastewater Treatment Plants (Nina Manig, Maike Beier, Karl-Heinz Rosenwinkel)....Pages 57-68 Front Matter ....Pages 69-69 Urban Drinking Water Challenges and Solutions: Energy Nexus (Kate Smith, Ying Liu, Shuming Liu)....Pages 71-89 Fostering Water Treatment in Eutrophic Areas: Innovative Water Quality Monitoring, and Technologies Mitigating Taste & Odor Problems Demonstrated at Tai Hu (Stephan Küppers, Daqiang Yin, Binghui Zheng, Andreas Tiehm)....Pages 91-109 Front Matter ....Pages 111-111 Preventive and Customized Maintenance of Underground Water Infrastructure (Fangfang Zhao, Regina Haußmann, Johannes Pinnekamp)....Pages 113-133 Implementing Real Time Control Systems to Minimize Emissions from the Sewer System (Michael Pabst)....Pages 135-156 Wetland Ecological Restoration Using Near-Natural Method (Chun Ye, Chun-Hua Li)....Pages 157-172 Urban Flood Prevention (Marc Illgen, Holger Ackermann)....Pages 173-193 Urban Pipe Assessment Method and Its Application in Two Chinese Cities (Jiane Zuo)....Pages 195-231 Front Matter ....Pages 233-233 Special Issues of Wastewater Management in China (Max Dohmann)....Pages 235-246 Front Matter ....Pages 247-247 Urban Water Governance in Europe and in China: Key Challenges, Benchmarks and Approaches (Moritz Reese)....Pages 249-282 Sustainable Water Resource Management in China – Reflections from a Comparative Governance Perspective (Martin Grambow, Markus Disse, Ke Chen, Hannah Patalong, Hans-Dietrich Uhl)....Pages 283-301 Cross-boundary Evolution of Urban Planning and Urban Drainage Towards the Water Sensitive “Sponge City” (Meiyue Zhou, Stephan Köster, Jiane Zuo, Wu Che, Xianping Wang)....Pages 303-329 Front Matter ....Pages 331-331 China’s National Governance Framework for Urban Water Resource Management (Zhongmei Lv, Mingqing You)....Pages 333-351 Regional Water Policy in China – Problems and Approaches in the Taihu und Wuhan Regions (Liping Dai, Tianbao Qin)....Pages 353-368 German Water Protection Law with a Particular Focus on Waste Water Management (Wolfgang Köck)....Pages 369-390 Information, Participation and Public Control in Water Management & Water Infrastructure Development: the European and German Perspective (Silke R. Laskowski)....Pages 391-402 Front Matter ....Pages 403-403 Economic Policies of Water Pollution Control in the Taihu Lake Basin, China (Yuanchun Zhou, Jun Bi)....Pages 405-427 The Eco-Compensation Mechanism in Tai Lake Watershed (Liping Dai, Tianbao Qin)....Pages 429-443 Economic Requirements and Instruments for Sustainable Urban Water Management – Comparative Review (Erik Gawel, Norman Bedtke)....Pages 445-458 Full Cost Accounting of Urban Water-Use (Guo-jun Song, Wen-cheng Gao)....Pages 459-471 The Economics and Management of Flood Risk in Germany (Volker Meyer, Reimund Schwarze)....Pages 473-495 Back Matter ....Pages 497-499