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Building water-wise cities is a pressing need nowadays in both developed and developing countries. This is mainly due to the limitation of the available water resources and aging infrastructure to meet the needs of adapting to social and environmental changes and for urban liveability. This is the first book to provide comprehensive insights into theoretical, systematic, and engineering aspects of water-wise cities with a broad coverage of global issues. The book aims to (1) provide a theoretical framework of water-wise cities and associated sustainable water systems including key concepts and principles, (2) provide a brand-new thinking on the design and management of sustainable urban water systems of various scales towards a paradigm shift under the resource and environmental constraints, and (3) provide a technological perspective with successful case studies of technology selection, integration, and optimization on the “fit-for-purpose” basis.
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Preface
Part I: Water Management Concepts and Principles
Chapter 1 - Pathways towards sustainable and resilient urban water systems
Guangtao Fu and David Butler
Chapter 2 - Water-wise cities and sustainable water systems: Current problems and challenges
Xiaochang C. Wang and Li Luo
Chapter 3 - Chinese version of water-wise cities: Sponge City initiative
Nanqi Ren, Xiuheng Wang and Shunwen Bai
Chapter 4 - US version of water-wise cities: Low impact development
Peter T. Weiss, John S. Gulliver and Ali Ebrahimian
Chapter 5 - Australian case of water sensitive city and its adaptation in China
Kefeng Zhang, Miao Wang, Xiuyu Li and Jiukun Hu
Part II: New Paradigm of Systems Thinking and Technology Advances
Chapter 6 - Water cycle management for building water-wise cities
Xiaochang C. Wang and Li Luo
Chapter 7 - Resilient infrastructures for reducing urban flooding risks
Maria Pregnolato, Dawei Han, Anna Lo Jacomo, Raffaele De Risi, Jitendra Agarwal and Jing Huang
Chapter 8 - Building resilience in water supply infrastructure in the face of future uncertainties: Insight from Cape Town
Upeshika Heenetigala, Leon Kapetas and Richard Fenner
Chapter 9 - Advances in experimental modelling of urban flooding
M. Rubinato, C. Lashford and M. Goerke
Chapter 10 - Integrated modelling and control of urban wastewater systems
Fanlin Meng and Ramesh Saagi
Part III: Practices of Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems
Chapter 11 - Practices of ‘Sponge City Construction’ in China
Nanqi Ren, Xiuheng Wang, Jiazhuo Wang, Qionghua Zhang and Xiaochang C. Wang
Chapter 12 - LID-BMPs for urban runoff pollutant source control
Mingyi Jia and Haifeng Jia
Chapter 13 - Water quality improvement for upgrading urban landscapes
Qiang He, Caihong Liu, Ziwei Chen, Riuxing Huang and Xiaoliu Huangfu
Chapter 14 - Constructed wetlands for urban water ecological improvement
Mawuli Dzakpasu, Yucong Zheng and Xiaochang C. Wang
Chapter 15 - Boscastle case of flash flood modelling and hazards reduction
Ioanna Stamataki
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