Engaging professionals in urban stormwater management: the case of China’s Sponge City

Xie, Xiaohuan; Qin, Shiyu; Gou, Zhonghua; Yi, Ming

doi:10.1080/09613218.2019.1704617

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“…This is in accordance with our results shown in Section 3.2; if the respondents had previous knowledge of the concept of sponge cities, they were more likely to be willing to pay for the maintenance of GI facilities. Thus, information campaigns or education programs regarding the sponge city concept for professionals and the public are of significance for increasing the WTP for GI facility implementation and maintenance [1,50,53,56]. However, as shown in Section 3.3, the amount respondents are willing to pay was not significantly influenced by their perceptions of the sponge city concept.…”

Section: The Influence Of Perceptions On the Sponge Cities Conceptmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…A study of the actual behaviors and attitudes of 71 relevant stakeholders towards water related GI in three Italian regions and one French region in the northwestern Mediterranean showed that the main limitation to water related GI adoption was due to an absence of knowledge of the GI solutions [5]. Similarly, Xie et al, (2020) found that the recognition of the sponge city concept as a sustainable way for stormwater management is important for achieving professional advocacy for the sponge cities' policies and their implementation [53]. This is in accordance with our results shown in Section 3.2; if the respondents had previous knowledge of the concept of sponge cities, they were more likely to be willing to pay for the maintenance of GI facilities.…”

Section: The Influence Of Perceptions On the Sponge Cities Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the influence of gender can vary from case to case. A survey of professionals involved in sponge city implementation in South China showed that female professionals were more supportive of the sponge city implementation than male professionals [53]. A study regarding households' WTP for maintaining and improving water supplies in Mexico City also reported that female respondents were, in general, more likely to respond positively [54].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Qiao

Randrup

2022

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Due to the increasingly devastating impact of pluvial flooding on human beings’ lives and properties in cities, the use of green infrastructure to manage stormwater onsite is becoming more popular worldwide. The maintenance of green infrastructure to ensure its function has become one of the most pressing tasks facing policy makers. However, there is limited research regarding the willingness to pay the stormwater fee as a form of maintenance funding. This study utilized contingent valuation data obtained from a survey of 1101 respondents living in six pilot sponge cities in China to estimate the willingness to pay for the green infrastructure maintenance. The findings indicated that two-thirds of all respondents were willing to pay, 17% would like to pay around 6–10 RMB/month (0.95–1.59 US dollars/month), and 17.8% would like to pay more than 20 RMB/month (3.2 US dollars/month). The educational level and age of the respondents were significant determinants of the probability of willingness to pay and the amount they would like to pay. Knowledge of the concept of sponge cities was another significant influencing factor for the willingness to pay, but it did not influence the amount of payment. The findings could help policy makers make better strategies regarding the maintenance of green infrastructure and its costs.

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Section: The Influence Of Perceptions On the Sponge Cities Conceptmentioning

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Section: The Influence Of Perceptions On the Sponge Cities Conceptmentioning

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Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Qiao

Randrup

2022

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“…Zhang, Wang, Hu, and He [51] identified that the urban water system is essential in constructing the sponge city and an overall program on the watershed and city scale. Xie et al [206] demonstrated the core issue of sponge city should correspond with comprehensive urban development, including urban planning, flood control, water resources protection, water pollution prevention, water ecological restoration, and multi-professional collaboration. Chan, Griffiths, Higgitt, Xu, Zhu, Tang, Xu, and Thorne [12] suggested that the next stage for the Sponge City concept is its overall application within a broader, National Planning policy.…”

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Regenerating Sponge City to Sponge Watershed through an Innovative Framework for Urban Water Resilience

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In recent years, cities universal are advocating ‘resilience’ in terms of water-related challenges. Accompanied by the development of sponge city construction, several emerging stormwater management practices are prevailing worldwide. This paper proposes a regenerative argument for sponge city construction from the urban scale towards the watershed scale by strengthening the urban water resilience and sustainability. An innovative framework is established to address urban water issues and human livability via 20 conventional and advanced indicators and the interrelations between the modules of water resilience, water resource, water treatment, water ecology, waterscape, and water management. Six representative cities from the sponge city construction pilot in South China have been selected, and the compatibility and divergence between their guidelines and the sponge watershed framework are revealed through pair analyses and parameter calculation. The diverse perspectives behind the scores have been discussed carefully, and the successful experiences of excellent cities are systematically summarized and promoted. The analyses and findings in this research have significant methodological implications for shifting the sponge city practice towards linking urban development with watershed ecological conservation. The proposed framework and strategies provide a reference for an integrated solution of watershed health and wellbeing in the next generation sponge city practice.

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“…GIS-based hydrological analysis tools are widely applicable to areas without hydrological data [3,20,26,27]. In summary, the evaluation of urban hydrogeological conditions focused on total runoff control, urban pipe network planning, and design or measures of sponge city construction [20,[28][29][30]. In addition, these studies were mainly applied in the construction technology of engineering geology or hydrogeology, without considering the vulnerability of urban waterlogging based on social and economic aspects [31].…”

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Integrating Sponge City Concept and Neural Network into Land Suitability Assessment: Evidence from a Satellite Town of Shenzhen Metropolitan Area

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Wang

Sha

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Land suitability assessment is fundamental in space control planning and land development because of its effects on land use and urban layout. Rainstorms and waterlogging have become one of the most common natural disasters in the coastal areas of China. As a result, the concept of an ecological sponge city was incorporated into the construction of cities in the future. Taking Shenzhen–Shantou special cooperation zone (SSCZ), we constructed a storm flooding model based on the SCS flow generation model and GIS to explore the spatial distribution characteristics of the flooding risk in a rainstorm of 100-year lasting 1 h. Combined with population and economic indicators, a radial basis function (RBF) network was utilized to evaluate the environmental risk, the vulnerability of disaster-bearing bodies, and the rain–flood resilience of sponge cities. The self-organizing feature mapping (SOFM) model was used for cluster analysis. Spatial differences were found in the construction suitability of the study area. A suitable construction area (73.59% of the entire area) was located downtown. The construction of the artificial spongy body in the highest vulnerable area (3.25%) needs to be strengthened. The control construction area (3.3%) is located along the banks of the river, with relatively high risk and low resilience of flood control engineering. Ecological construction (19.85%) serves as the sponge body of ecological buffer. The factors of waterlogging, ecology, population, and economy could be integrated comprehensively by applying neural network methods for urban planning and construction.

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Engaging professionals in urban stormwater management: the case of China’s Sponge City

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Willingness to Pay for the Maintenance of Green Infrastructure in Six Chinese Pilot Sponge Cities

Regenerating Sponge City to Sponge Watershed through an Innovative Framework for Urban Water Resilience

Integrating Sponge City Concept and Neural Network into Land Suitability Assessment: Evidence from a Satellite Town of Shenzhen Metropolitan Area

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