Urban Planning and Water-related Disaster Management

Offers a comprehensive understanding of water-related urban problems

Offers detailed information on spatial planning and integrated urban water management

Provides innovative solutions to water-related disasters in urban areas

Offers a comprehensive understanding of water-related urban problems Offers detailed information on spatial planning and integrated urban water management Provides innovative solutions to water-related disasters in urban areas

Autorentext
Guangwei Huang moved from Shanghai to Tokyo for complete his higher education and obtained a PhD from the University of Tokyo. Passionate about water, he has studied various aspects, from fluid dynamics to water quality modeling and to integrated watershed science and management. A particular research focus in recent years has been flood risk and water quality deterioration in relation to different stages of urban development. A firm believer in the old Chinese saying: the person who manages water well can rule the world, he aims to provide innovative solutions to various water-related problems via cross-disciplinary initiatives. He was an associate professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Frontier Sciences; a professor for the Joint Educational Program between International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan. Currently, he is a professor at the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies and director of the Institute for Studies of the Global Environment, Sophia University, Japan.Dr. Zhenjiang Shen currently is director of Joint International Lab SPSD between Fuzhou university and Kanazawa university, his research interests include policy-making support systems for planning and design. Dr. Shen is serving as vice director, Urban Big data Commission, Chinese Society of Urban Studies. He also served as commissioner of Information Technology Education of Architectural Institute of Japan, and was a member of Scientific Committee of City Planning Institute of Japan. He works as a joint member of Fudan University and PhD Instructor in Tsinghua University. Dr.Shen has published over 200 papers and published 5 books already with Springer, who is editor-in-chief of IRSPSD International indexed in SCOPUS and ESCI, and is General Director of International Community on Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development.

Zusammenfassung

Offers a comprehensive understanding of water-related urban problems

Offers detailed information on spatial planning and integrated urban water management

Provides innovative solutions to water-related disasters in urban areas

Inhalt

1. Overview of Urban Planning and Water-related Disaster Management.- Part I. Water-Related Disaster and Urbanization.- 2. Floods and Culture.- 3. Urban Storm Flooding Management in Beijing.- 4. A Revisit to Impact of Urbanization on Flooding.- Part II. Monitoring and Simulation of Water-related Disaster.- 5. Evaluation and Application of the Latest Satellite-Based Precipitation Products with a Distributed Hydrological Model in the Lower Mekong River Basin.- 6. Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Urban Rainfall Extremes for Achieving Sustainable Urban Water Development in Hanoi, Vietnam.- Part III. Integrating Urban Planning with Water-related Disaster Management.- 7. Improvement Practice and Planning Assessment of Tsunami Evacuation Plan at Community Level-Case Studies of Municipalities with Coastline in Chubu Region.- 8. Integrated Criteria for Flood Disaster Mitigation in Indonesian Urban Masterplan; Housing and Settlement Suitability Case in Palu Urban Masterplan.- 9. Design Parameters of Residential Building for Improving Performance of RHS: Evidence from Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. <p