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Urban Water Management for Future Cities

Technical and Institutional Aspects from Chinese and German Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Stephan Köster

    1. Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany

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  2. Moritz Reese

    1. Department of Environmental and Planning Law, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

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  3. Jian'e Zuo

    1. Dep of Env Science and Engr, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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  • Offers a platform to understanding China featured urban water management challenges
  • Provides lessons and inspiring experiences for other fast-developing countries, via comprehensively analyzing China urban water issues
  • Raises awareness in interdisciplinary/cross-boundary/international cooperation on handling the complex urban water management challenges

Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 12)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Innovative Technologies and Implementation: Urban Planning and Urban Water Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Urban Stormwater Management and Sponge City Concept in China

      • Wu Che, Wei Zhang
      Pages 3-11

    3. Maintenance and Safety of Sponge City Infrastructure

      • Stephan Köster
      Pages 13-55

    4. Future-oriented Strategic Planning of Wastewater Treatment Plants

      • Nina Manig, Maike Beier, Karl-Heinz Rosenwinkel
      Pages 57-68

  3. Innovative Technologies and Implementation: Drinking Water Supply

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Urban Drinking Water Challenges and Solutions: Energy Nexus

      • Kate Smith, Ying Liu, Shuming Liu
      Pages 71-89

    3. Fostering Water Treatment in Eutrophic Areas: Innovative Water Quality Monitoring, and Technologies Mitigating Taste & Odor Problems Demonstrated at Tai Hu

      • Stephan Küppers, Tim aus der Beek, Wenhai Chu, Bingzhi Dong, Anna Dahlhaus, Henner Hollert et al.
      Pages 91-110

  4. Innovative Technologies and Implementation: Urban Drainage and Rainwater Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Preventive and Customized Maintenance of Underground Water Infrastructure

      • Fangfang Zhao, Regina Haußmann, Johannes Pinnekamp
      Pages 113-133

    3. Implementing Real Time Control Systems to Minimize Emissions from the Sewer System

      • Michael Pabst
      Pages 135-156

    4. Wetland Ecological Restoration Using Near-Natural Method

      • Chun Ye, Chun-Hua Li
      Pages 157-172

    5. Urban Flood Prevention

      • Marc Illgen, Holger Ackermann
      Pages 173-193

    6. Urban Pipe Assessment Method and Its Application in Two Chinese Cities

      • Jian’e Zuo, Xiangyang Ye, Xiaoqing Hu, Zhonghan Yu
      Pages 195-231

  5. Innovative Technologies and Implementation: Wastewater Disposal

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Special Issues of Wastewater Management in China

      • Max Dohmann
      Pages 235-246

  6. Urban Water Governance: Overarching and Methodological Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. Urban Water Governance in Europe and in China: Key Challenges, Benchmarks and Approaches

      • Moritz Reese
      Pages 249-282

    3. 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

    4. Cross-boundary Evolution of Urban Planning and Urban Drainage Towards the Water Sensitive “Sponge City”

      • Meiyue Zhou, Stephan Köster, Jian’e Zuo, Wu Che, Xianping Wang
      Pages 303-329
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management, Leibniz University Hannover, Hanover, Germany

    Stephan Köster

  • Department of Environmental and Planning Law, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany

    Moritz Reese

  • Dep of Env Science and Engr, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Jian'e Zuo

About the editors

Stephan Köster, Prof. Dr. ing., is head of the Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management at Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany). He has held the Chair of Urban Water Management since April 2016. Köster studied Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. Following his studies, he worked for several years in an engineering company, primarily in projects of international cooperation for sustainable development. He returned to RWTH Aachen University in 2000 and received his doctorate in 2004. In the year 2011 Köster joined the Hamburg University of Technology as professor, after seven years as head engineer of the Institute of Sanitary Engineering of RWTH Aachen University.

Moritz Reese, Dr. iur., is senior researcher at the Department for Enviornmental & Planning Law of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany. He is also Co-Speaker of the Governance Division of the Center for Advanced Water Research (CAWR), chairman of the European Environmental Law Forum  (EELF), editor in chief of the Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law (JEEPL), member of the editorial board of the German Journal for Environmental Law (Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht) and German rapporteur to the European Water Law Network. Since joining the Helmholtz Centre in 2008, Dr. Reese has focussed on research and consultancy in the fields of water governance, urban development and climate adaptation.

Jiane Zuo, Ph.D, is a professor and former vice-dean of the School of Environment at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on anaerobic biotechnology for organic wastewater and solid waste treatment and biogas recovery. Another important field of research is rain water collection and pollution control including sewer system evaluation and maintenance. Dr. Zuo got his bachelor degree from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1991, got his master degree and Ph D degree from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1996. He became a teacher at Tsinghua in 1995. In 2004 he was appointed full professor at the Tsinghua University. For years, he has been leading many research projects, including the Mega Water Project in Tongzhou, which serves the demonstration implementation of the Sponge-City concept in Beijing.


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