Urban Water Management for Future Cities: Technical and Institutional Aspects from Chinese and German Perspective

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
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 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
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 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
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 Special Issues of Wastewater Management in China  (Max Dohmann)....Pages 235-246
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 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
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 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
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 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