Governance of the Sponge City Programme in China with Wuhan as a case study

Dai, Liping; Rijswick, Marleen van; Driessen, Peter; Keessen, Andrea

doi:10.1080/07900627.2017.1373637

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“…After experiencing severe flooding in 2012, with damage that amounted to $1.6 billion USD, the Central Government of China launched the Sponge City Pilot Programme (Jiang, Zevenbergen, and Fu 2017;Staddon et al 2017). This initiative is supported by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Rural-Urban Development, and the Ministry of Water Resources (Dai et al 2018;Li et al 2017).…”

Section: Challenge #2: Regulatory Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions

Zúñiga-Terán

Staddon

Vito

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Green infrastructure (GI) has been identified as a promising approach to help cities adapt to climate change through the provision of multiple ecosystem services. However, GI contributions to urban resilience will not be realized until it is more fully mainstreamed in the built environment and design professions. Here, we interrogate five key challenges for the effective implementation of GI: (1) design standards; (2) regulatory pathways; (3) socioeconomic considerations; (4) financeability; and (5) innovation. Methods include a literature review, case studies, and interviews with resilience managers. We propose a people-centred and context-dependent approach to advance effective implementation of GI in urban planning. We highlight two underlying currents that run across all of the challenges-(1) the role of political will as a precondition for tackling all challenges holistically; and (2) the role of stakeholder engagement in achieving public support, harnessing funding, and maintaining and monitoring GI in the long term. Highlights: The effective implementation of GI is context-specific and should adhere to the basic principles of appropriate technology. Continuous community engagement is needed to ensure the inclusivity and multi-functionality of GI. Challenges to successful GI are intersectional and therefore cannot be addressed singly in isolation.

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Section: Challenge #2: Regulatory Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions

Zúñiga-Terán

Staddon

Vito

et al. 2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

125

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“…One of the key underlying concepts of Dutch water management is the Three-Step Approach, which entails the capturing, storing and draining of water -similar to the function of a sponge (Dai, van Rijswick, Driessen, & Keessen, 2017). It means that precipitation should be held as long as possible in the catchment area where it falls.…”

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Rainproof cities in the Netherlands: approaches in Dutch water governance to climate-adaptive urban planning

Dai

Wörner

Rijswick

2017

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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b utrecht centre for Water, oceans and sustainability law, faculty of law, economics and Governance, utrecht university, the netherlands; c utrecht university school of law, the netherlands ABSTRACT Due to increasingly frequent incidents of pluvial flooding of public spaces and private properties, climate-adaptive building and urban water management are gaining momentum in Dutch water governance. This study assesses the Dutch approach to urban water management by looking at the governance approaches of three of the largest Dutch municipalities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. By analyzing the municipalities' governance approaches in a holistic way, paying attention to knowledge, organization and implementation, the research provides good practices in terms of different aspects of resilience as well as lessons regarding setting performance indicators in service levels, clarifying responsibility division, applying binding rules instead of soft policies, and more.

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“…Many researchers also observed the considerable knowledge gaps in the cost of sustaining a sponge city, and in the quantitative evaluation of sponge city technologies and programs. By using Wuhan city as a case study, Dai et al [14] recommended that the government should slow down the sponge city construction to catch up with stakeholders' perception.…”

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Development of a Heterogeneity Analysis Framework for Collaborative Sponge City Management

Dong

Huang

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Rapid urbanization, inappropriate urban planning and the changing climate in many countries have resulted in flooding, water shortage and water pollution around the world. Although the sponge city concept has been applied in both macro-scales and micro-scales to address those challenges, research on the heterogeneity of different cities for sponge city construction and the collaborative management between cities is insufficient. Therefore, this paper proposes a multivariate cluster analysis framework and conducts an empirical study using 96 Chinese cities. By considering the local infrastructure, economic development, water resource distribution, water quality and precipitation characteristics in each city, and integrating the principal component analysis and a self-organizing feature mapping network, this paper shows the potential of regional and interregional sponge city collaborative management. This will provide an opportunity for developing a new sponge city management mechanism and will promote the establishment of multi-functional departments for urban flood control and water quality improvement.

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Governance of the Sponge City Programme in China with Wuhan as a case study

Cited by 79 publications

References 13 publications

Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions

Challenges of mainstreaming green infrastructure in built environment professions

Rainproof cities in the Netherlands: approaches in Dutch water governance to climate-adaptive urban planning

Development of a Heterogeneity Analysis Framework for Collaborative Sponge City Management

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