@article{8f0046a064724cd3aee0339a0a28ea2f,
title = "Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China: Ningbo as a “Blue-Green City” in the “Sponge City” campaign",
abstract = "Modern urban flood and water management emphasises holistic strategies that reduce flood risk while providing cobenefits to urban economies, societies, and environments. The “Blue-Green City” concept provides a viable framework for putting this into practice. Ningbo, is a coastal city with high flood risk, whose history as a Chinese “water town” demonstrates that approaches to water management implicit to the “Blue-Green” concept were practiced in ancient times, and lessons can be learned from these applications. Furthermore, recent launch of the “Sponge City” campaign by China's National Government demonstrates the political will to implement sustainable flood and water management in ways consistent with the “Blue-Green” ideals. Selection of Ningbo for a pilot project presents the opportunity to integrate new “Sponge city” approaches with ancient “Blue-Green” principles, within the contexts of both new urban development and retrofit. Reinventing traditional approaches to urban water management and governance offers the possibility of maintaining flood risk at acceptable levels without constraining urban growth in China and other countries experiencing rapid urban development.",
keywords = "Blue-Green Cities, integrated flood risk management, integrated water management, Sponge Cities, sustainable drainage systems, water-sensitive urban design",
author = "Tang, {Y. T.} and Chan, {F. K.S.} and O'Donnell, {E. C.} and J. Griffiths and L. Lau and Higgitt, {D. L.} and Thorne, {C. R.}",
note = "Funding Information: UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Grant/Award Numbers: EP/ K013661/1, EP/P004180/1, EP/N008103/1; Environment Agency and Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland); Sandpit Fund offered by UNNC Funding Information: The research reported in this paper was performed as part of an interdisciplinary project undertaken by the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) and the UK Blue-Green Cities (B-GC) Research Consortium http:// www.bluegreencities.ac.uk, as part of the “Clean Water for All” initiative. The investigation into ancient Ningbo water management was supported by a grant from the Sandpit Fund offered by UNNC. The B-GC Research Consortium was funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant EP/K013661/1, with additional contributions from the Environment Agency and Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland). Discussions during a Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Symposium supported by the EPSRC grant EP/N008103/1 and held at UNNC between June 15–18, 2015 further contributed to this paper. This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant numbers EP/K01366/1; EP/N008103/1 and EP/P004180/1]. Quantitative analyses of land-use transitions were based on GIS work performed by Ms Kexin Ye as part of her studies under the BSc Environmental Science (2+2) programme in the Department of Geographical Sciences at UNNC. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Authors. Journal of Flood Risk Management published by Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1111/jfr3.12451",
language = "English",
volume = "11",
journal = "Journal of Flood Risk Management",
issn = "1753-318X",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc",
number = "4",
}