Integrating river restoration goals with urban planning practices: the case of Kebena river, Addis Ababa

Asnake, Kalkidan; Worku, Hailu; Argaw, Mekuria

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07446

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“…River-sensitive urban planning is a panacea for most of the critical challenges faced by rivers and the most efficient way to restore the citizen-river connect. Asnake et al (2021) argue that integrating river restoration initiatives into legislation, proclamations, urban planning practices, and other working documents is crucial for the long-term success of river restoration operations.…”

Section: Significance Of Master Plans For Urban Rivers In Indiamentioning

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Healthy Urban Rivers as a Panacea to Pandemic-Related Stress: How to Manage Urban Rivers

Shinde¹,

Kumar²,

Joshi³

et al. 2022

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During the lockdown imposed due to the first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, there were several media reports of citizens flouting the lockdown rules in the United States. Upon closer investigation it was found that the rules were flouted mostly so that people could spend time outdoors in natural environments. This exemplifies the role of the natural environment as a panacea to the mental stress created by pandemics. River ecosystems are perhaps the greatest natural feature of any city. Efficient management of urban rivers, therefore, is strongly correlated to crisis management during pandemics like COVID-19.

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Section: Significance Of Master Plans For Urban Rivers In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Healthy Urban Rivers as a Panacea to Pandemic-Related Stress: How to Manage Urban Rivers

Shinde¹,

Kumar²,

Joshi³

et al. 2022

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“…Morphometric analysis provides very consistent information quantitatively to assess and understand the hydrological behavior of rocks and their hydraulic characteristics (Huggett et al, 2018). (Asnake et al, 2021). This study could be an important source of information in understanding the hydrological nature of the Akaki watershed to consider in the watershed development plan project.…”

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Catchment Morphometric Characterization of the Akaki River in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

Sisay

2022

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Morphometry is the measurement and analysis of a catchment in the form of fingerprint characteristics. Morphometric studies play an important role in the areas of soil and water conservation, flood control, pollutant and waste management and socio – environmental protection. In this study, morphometrical data analysis indices are gained from high-resolution (12.5 m X 12.5 m) digital elevation model dataset for the of the Akaki watershed. The techniques performed using spreadsheet, R-programming, and ArcGIS tools. Results designate the Akaki watershed as dendritic drainage with elongated channels and irregular spreading streams ramifications. The big Akaki is the longest distance routing river among tributaries in the watershed. The Akaki watershed is expressed by 25% of steep sloppy coverages of Entoto, Yeka, and Sebeta mountainous areas. The implication on the morphometry of the catchment is to higher lag time of flow to reach its outlet. But the flood risk in the downstream areas can be due to the urban and peri – urban land uses with high pavement structures. In terms of the topographic wetness index (TWI), the higher elevation and river abatements areas have low moisture-holding capacities due to the hypsometrical characteristics of the landforms. High rainfall with lower evaporation rate recordings implies that the watershed has good groundwater recharge with good aquifer characteristics. This study could be a primary source of information for future development projects of watershed management, urban planning, riverside rehabilitation, flood controls and stormwater management practices in the Akaki watershed.

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“…In the context of rapid urbanisation with a national average rate of over 65%, mainly driven by the economic oriented urban expansion [1], the urban disease issues are increasingly prevalent in China. Under such an impetus for reform, various schemes of new-type urbanisation were introduced with the fundamental aim of converting the pattern of urbanisation in China 'from quantity-based expansion to the quality-based upgrade' [2]. For example, since 2014, the NNUP practice was initiated ever since 2014 as a central strategy guiding urbanisations.…”

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New-type urbanisation and regional spatial structures—A case study

2024

HBEM

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This paper mainly used a qualitative approach, including the case studies and comparative study, to investigate the evolutions of the regional spatial structures that will appear in the context of new-type urbanisation practices in China (National New-type Urbanisation Plan, NNUP), based on the investigation of two well-known municipalities, Chongqing and Shenzhen. The term ‘regional spatial structures’, in this paper, refer to the higher-level urban systematic spatial structures, in other words, the structures of city system. A city system generally has various forms of sub-settlements appeared within it. In this essay, the regional spatial structure of the city system was studied in details in which emphasis is put upon the planning of the city system, (which includes the formation of developmental units, like the districts, city clusters and developmental corridors), the formation of management methods and the inter-associations between the different units of settlements. Moreover, the regional spatial structures also constitute of the local income and market structures. With the above concepts, the paper demonstrates the current situations of NNUP in Chongqing and Shenzhen in terms of the management as well as the spatial developmental framework, and their respective effects on the regional spatial structures in the locality, and in turn draw a final conclusion, through making discussions towards the similarities and differences in their NNUP practices, that both cities are emphasising on the urbanisation practices towards the counties, while still having differences in terms of the extent to which the harmonised city system has been formed. Therefore, in the general NNUP context, efforts should continue to be made for the revitalisations of potential settlements, especially those with the strategic locations proximate to the municipal- or urban cluster-level central areas.

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Integrating river restoration goals with urban planning practices: the case of Kebena river, Addis Ababa

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

Healthy Urban Rivers as a Panacea to Pandemic-Related Stress: How to Manage Urban Rivers

Healthy Urban Rivers as a Panacea to Pandemic-Related Stress: How to Manage Urban Rivers

Catchment Morphometric Characterization of the Akaki River in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

New-type urbanisation and regional spatial structures—A case study

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