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Comments and recommendations on Sponge City — China's solutions to prevent flooding risks [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Background: /Objective: Flooding risk is a global issue, and various approaches have been established to prevent flooding risk around the world. China is one of the heavily flood-affected countries and has been implementing the Sponge City program since ...
Chen Zeng, Emmanuel Mensah Aboagye, Huijun Li, Shirui Che   +3 more
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A core framework of “mountain management–water management–moist city” for sponge city special planning: The case of northwestern China [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Sponge city special planning represents a basis for sponge city construction in China. It has a leading role in problem-oriented, effect-centered comprehensive, and coordinated construction. In accordance with the Interim Provisions on the Formulation of
Ran Wu, Ye Yang, Junchao He, Jiang Zhu
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Revisiting China’s Sponge City Planning Approach: Lessons From a Case Study on Qinhuai District, Nanjing

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2021
Integrating sustainable urban water management into the urban planning process is essential for developing water-resilient cities. To this end, the central government of the People’s Republic of China initiated the “Sponge City” programme.
Shiyang Chen, Shiyang Chen, Frans H. M. van de Ven, Frans H. M. van de Ven, Chris Zevenbergen, Chris Zevenbergen, Simon Verbeeck, Qinghua Ye, Qinghua Ye, Weijun Zhang, Liang Wei   +10 more
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Sponge city construction and population health [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThis paper focuses on the construction of sponge cities and their effects on population health. Sponge cities in China both solve stormwater problems and are a systemic transformation in the urban construction paradigm, addressing related ...
Yue Li
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SCC-UEFAS, an Urban-Ecological-Feature Based Assessment System for Sponge City Construction [PDF]

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2022
Ji-Wei Pang, Zi-Tong Zhao, Shun-Wen Bai
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Understanding the effects of digital elevation model resolution and building treatment for urban flood modelling

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2022
Study region: A mountain city in the coastal region of Southeast China. Study focus: This study elucidated the effect of digital elevation model (DEM) resolution on flood simulation errors and inundation depth distributions through building treatment ...
Weiwei Jiang, Jingshan Yu, Qianyang Wang, Qimeng Yue   +3 more
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Spatiotemporal Variation of Evapotranspiration on Different Land Use/Cover in the Inner Mongolia Reach of the Yellow River Basin

Remote Sensing, 2022
The accurate estimation of global evapotranspiration (ET) is essential to understanding the water cycle and land–atmosphere feedbacks in the Earth system.
Xiaojing Zhang, Guoqiang Wang, Baolin Xue, Yuntao Wang, Libo Wang   +4 more
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Coupling coordination analysis of resources, economy, and ecology in the Yellow River Basin

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The development of the Yellow River Basin (YRB) has been constrained by resource utilization, ecological conservation, and economic growth. The aim of this study was to establish a theoretical framework for characterizing the relationships among ...
Guanhang Sui, Huixiao Wang, Siyang Cai, Wendi Cui   +3 more
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An Entropic Approach to Estimating the Instability Criterion of People in Floodwaters

Entropy, 2021
People are always susceptible to a loss of stability in urban floodwaters that leads to serious casualties. Thus, the safety criterion for the instability of people in floodwaters must be determined.
Zhongfan Zhu, Yongpeng Zhang, Lufeng Gou, Bo Pang   +3 more
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A collaborated framework to improve hydrologic ecosystem services management with sparse data in a semi-arid basin

Hydrology Research, 2021
Applying various models to assess hydrologic ecosystem services (HESs) management has the potential to encourage efficient water resources allocation. However, can a single model designed on these principles be practical to carry out hydrologic ecosystem
Yifan Wu, Yang Xu, Guodong Yin, Xuan Zhang, Chong Li, Liyu Wu, Xiao Wang, Qiuhong Hu, Fanghua Hao   +8 more
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