Urban Water Management for Future Cities

Preface.- PART I: Innovative Technologies and Implementation.- Chapter 1. Urban Stormwater Management and Sponge City Concept in China (Wu CHE).- Chapter 2. Maintenance and Safety of Sponge City Infrastructure (Stephan Koester).- Chapter 3. Future-oriented Strategic Planning of Wastewater Treatment Plants (Nina Manig, Maike Beier, Karl-Heinz Rosenwinkel).- Chapter 4. Urban Drinking Water Challenges and Solutions: Energy Nexus (Shuming LIU).- Chapter 5. Fostering Water Treatment in Eutrophic Areas: Innovative Water Quality Monitoring, and Technologies Minigating Taste & Odor Problems Demonstrated at Tai Hu (Christian Moldaenke, Stephan Küppers, Christian Staaks, Edmund Riehle, Tim aus der Beek, Andreas Tiehm).- Chapter 6. Preventive and Customized Maintenance of Underground Water Infrastructure (Regina Haussmann, Fangfang ZHAO, Johannes Pinnekamp).- Chapter 7. Implementing Real Time Control Systems to Minimize Emissions from the Sewer System (Michael Pabst).- Chapter 8. Wetland Ecological Restoration Using Near-Natural Method (Chun YE).- Chapter 9. Urban Flood Prevetion (Marc Illgen).- Chapter 10. Urban Pipe Assessment Method and Its Application in Two Chinese Cities (Jina’e Zuo).- Chapter 11. Special issues of Wastewater Management in China (Max Dohmann).- PART II: Urban Water Governance.- Chapter 12. Urban Water Governance in Europa and in China: Key Challenges, Benchmarks and Approaches (Moritz Reese).- Chapter 13. Sustainable Water Resource Management in China – Reflections from a Comparative Governance Perspective (Martin Grambow, Markus Disse, Ke Chen,Hannah Patalong & Hans-Dietrich Uhl).- Chapter 14. Cross-boundary Evolution of Urban Planning and Urban Drainage Towards the Water Sensitive “Sponge City” (Meiyue Zhou. Stephan Koester, Jiane Zuo, Wu Che, Xianping Wang).- Chapter 15. China’s National Governance Framework for Urban Water Resource Management (Zhongmei Lv & Mingqing You).- Chapter 16. Regional Water Policy in China – Problems and Approaches in theTaihu und Wuhan Regions (Liping Dai & Tianbao Qin).- Chapter 17. German Water Protection Law with a Particular Focus on Waste Water Management (Wolfgang Köck).- Chapter 18. Information, Participation and Public Control in Water Management & Water Infrastructure Development: the European Perspective (Silke R. Laskowski).- Chapter 19. Economic Policies of Water Pollution Control and in the Taihu Lake Basin, China (Zhou Yunchun & Jun Bi).- Chapter 20. The Eco-Compensation Mechanism in Tai Lake Watershed (Liping Dai & Tianbao Qin).- Chapter 21. Economic Requirements and Instruments for Sustainable Urban Water Management – Comparative Review (Erik Gawel & Norman Bedtke).- Chapter 22. Full Cost Accounting of Urban Water-Use (Guo-jun Song & Wen-cheng Gao).- Chapter 23. The Economics and Management of Flood Risk in Germany (Volker Meyer & Reimund Schwarze).