[HTML][HTML] Urban pluvial flooding and stormwater management: A contemporary review of China's challenges and “sponge cities” strategy

Y Jiang, C Zevenbergen, Y Ma - Environmental science & policy, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, urban pluvial flooding caused by extreme rainfall has increasingly occurred
across China. This paper reviews the challenges faced by China in addressing urban pluvial …

Transformative environmental governance

BC Chaffin, AS Garmestani… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the
capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological …

Learning through evaluation–A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

C Luederitz, N Schäpke, A Wiek, DJ Lang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2017 - Elsevier
Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected
challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to …

Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective

P Olsson, V Galaz, WJ Boonstra - Ecology and society, 2014 - JSTOR
Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead
to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger …

Taking the “waste” out of “wastewater” for human water security and ecosystem sustainability

SB Grant, JD Saphores, DL Feldman, AJ Hamilton… - science, 2012 - science.org
Humans create vast quantities of wastewater through inefficiencies and poor management
of water systems. The wasting of water poses sustainability challenges, depletes energy …

Towards sustainable urban water management: A critical reassessment

DR Marlow, M Moglia, S Cook, DJ Beale - Water research, 2013 - Elsevier
Within the literature, concerns have been raised that centralised urban water systems are
maladapted to challenges associated with climate change, population growth and other …

A research agenda for the future of urban water management: exploring the potential of nongrid, small-grid, and hybrid solutions

S Hoffmann, U Feldmann, PM Bach… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent developments in high-and middle-income countries have exhibited a shift from
conventional urban water systems to alternative solutions that are more diverse in source …

[HTML][HTML] Water Sensitive Cities Index: A diagnostic tool to assess water sensitivity and guide management actions

BC Rogers, G Dunn, K Hammer, W Novalia… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Cities are wrestling with the practical challenges of transitioning urban water services to
become water sensitive; capable of enhancing liveability, sustainability, resilience and …

Sustainable and resilient urban water systems: The role of decentralization and planning

NG Leigh, H Lee - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Urban water systems face multiple challenges related to future uncertainty and pressures to
provide more sustainable and resilient modes of service delivery. Transitioning away from …

[图书][B] Cities and climate change

H Bulkeley - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is
also a critical issue for the world's cities. Now home to over half the world's population, urban …