Urban Water Management for Future Cities

Stephan Köster, Prof. Dr. ing., is head of the Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management at Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany). He has held the Chair of Urban Water Management since April 2016. Köster studied Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University. Following his studies, he worked for several years in an engineering company, primarily in projects of international cooperation for sustainable development. He returned to RWTH Aachen University in 2000 and received his doctorate in 2004. In the year 2011 Köster joined the Hamburg University of Technology as professor, after seven years as head engineer of the Institute of Sanitary Engineering of RWTH Aachen University.Moritz Reese, Dr. iur., is senior researcher at the Department for Enviornmental & Planning Law of the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany. He is also Co-Speaker of the Governance Division of the Center for Advanced Water Research (CAWR), chairman of the European Environmental Law Forum  (EELF), editor in chief of the Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law (JEEPL), member of the editorial board of the German Journal for Environmental Law (Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht) and German rapporteur to the European Water Law Network. Since joining the Helmholtz Centre in 2008, Dr. Reese has focussed on research and consultancy in the fields of water governance, urban development and climate adaptation. Jiane Zuo, Ph.D, is a professor and former vice-dean of the School of Environment at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on anaerobic biotechnology for organic wastewater and solid waste treatment and biogas recovery. Another important field of research is rain water collection and pollution control including sewer system evaluation and maintenance. Dr. Zuo got his bachelor degree from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1991, got his master degree and Ph D degree from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University in 1996. He became a teacher at Tsinghua in 1995. In 2004 he was appointed full professor at the Tsinghua University. For years, he has been leading many research projects, including the Mega Water Project in Tongzhou, which serves the demonstration implementation of the Sponge-City concept in Beijing.

• 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).