Water and Urban Development Paradigms: Towards an Integration of Engineering, Design and Management Approaches

✍ Scribed by Jan Feyen (editor), Kelly Shannon (editor), Matthew Neville (editor)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 714
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Communication across and integration of disciplines in the urban-water sector seems today more imperative than ever before. Water is a strategic and shrinking resource. It is probably the world's most valuable resource and clean water has even been touted as the 'next oil'. Control of water - from access to management -  has always been a highly politicised affair. The complexities that surround it are proving to be major challenges as the world continues to urbanise and human habits of mass consumption and pollution deplete natural resources and destroy natural eco-systems. Water issues are increasingly high on the international agenda – particularly in desert, tropical and sub-tropical regions.

Water and Urban Development Paradigms

includes the papers presented at the International Conference on Water and Urban Development Paradigms: Towards an Integration of Engineering, Design and Management Approaches (Leuven, Belgium, 15-19 September 2008), and intends to bridge the gap between the disciplines of water management, ecology and the approaches of engineering, urban design and spatial planning. The volume explores a number of themes, discussing the historical relationship between water systems and human settlements, and related management problems regarding urban floods, water use and water sanitation.

The aim of Water and Urban Development Paradigms is to contribute to the better integration of approaches currently considered in the separate disciplines of water management, water engineering, urban planning and design, and aquatic ecology - and lead to the emergence of new, more effective water and urban development paradigms. The book will be of special interest to scientists and professionals in the fields of architecture, urban planning, water resources engineering, water supply and sanitation, flood protection, among related fields; to public and non-governmental organizations active in urban planning and the water sector, and to university teachers and students in architecture, urbanism and planning, water and sanitation engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Preface
Conference
Introduction
Innovation in water management for the city of the future
Part one: Urbanity and hydrology
Keynote papers
Sustainable urban water management
Urban aquatics
Preserving the hydrology of urban Ghana through implementing integrated water resources management
Session papers
Water urbanism: Hydrological infrastructure as an urban frame in Vietnam
Living with water: The settlements of Vietnam Mekong Delta
A study of waterfront development – A case study of the Moganshan District, Shanghai
Quantifying changes in land use and surface water bodies in Wuhan, China
Design and management of urban artificial watercourses in Taiwan: The cases of Tainan Canal and Liugong Ditch
Incorporating rainwater-harvesting and retention basins design into urban development paradigms in Greater Bandung, Indonesia
Urban waterfront development patterns: Water as a structuring element of urbanity
Changing water consumption pattern of Beira Lake and its effects to the city image
Urban growth, loss of water bodies and flooding in Indian cities: The case of Hyderabad
How water flows in strategic spatial planning: The strategic role of water in Dutch regional planning projects
Exploring the relationship between water management technology and urban design in the Dutch polder cities
Ghent: Water as a structuring element of urbanity
Pelagic city: TheWynyard Point Park
Historic water-cycle infrastructure and its influence on urban form in London
Dualism and its effects on urban water infrastructure management: The case of Nairobi city
Deterioration of the environment and undefined type of structuring: Eastern Mediterranean coasts of Anatolia-Göksu Delta
Istanbul: Major transformations as a water city
The influence of water in shaping culture and modernisation of the Kathmandu Valley
Between leisure and productivity: A water management project for the central coast of Chile
Design strategies for urban water systems: A case study of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro
Water: on the power of forms and devices
Part two: Mitigating natural disasters
Keynote papers
Implications of global warming and urban land use change on flooding in Europe
Mitigating of water related natural disasters in developing countries
Mitigating urban flood disasters in India
Session papers
Future flood risks and comprehensive flood management
Urban flood protection chart
Real-time control of urban flooding
The impact of climate change on the hydrology in highly urbanised Belgian areas
2D modelling of sewer flooding in the urban environment
Intelligent decision support system based geo-information technology and spatial planning for sustainable water management in Flanders, Belgium
A trans-disciplinary approach to confronting climate trends and extreme weather in urban areas
Disaster mitigation lessons from “build back better” following the 26 December 2004 Tsunamis
Coastal reformulations and hydrologic management in Sri Lanka after the December 2004 Tsunami: A landscape urbanism methodology
Disaster management in Bangladesh: Experiences from the Tsunami warning in Cox’s Bazar District – September 12, 2007
Virtual nature systems for management of urban disasters
Managing urban water disasters in Gujarat: Risk assessment and risk reduction
Flash floods due to glacier lake outburst floods in the mountainous regions of Nepal: A case study of Kawache Glacier Lake outburst flood
Selection of flood frequency model in Niger Basin using maximum likelihood method
Part three: Urban water management
Keynote papers
Estimation of urban design storms in consideration of GCM-based climate change scenarios
Slum networking – A paradigm shift to transcend poverty with water, environmental sanitation and hidden resources
The Dutch Delta: Looking for a new fusion of urbanism and hydraulic engineering
Risks and integrated management of the urban water cycle in megacities of the developing world: Mexico City
Session papers
Real-time Decision Support System for sewer systems based on hydro-dynamic models and precipitation radar
Improving hydrological model parameterisation in urbanised catchments: Remote sensing derived impervious surface cover maps
Optimal operation of urban water supply systems: A multi-objective approach using the PROMETHEE method
The cause and implications of urban river pollution: Mitigative measures and benthic macroinvertebrates as river monitoring tool
Ypacarai watershed management planning in the Asuncion Metropolitan Region
Variability of urban water supply and demand
Quenching Chennai’s insatiable thirst: A study of the city’s water demands and solutions
Sustainable development and wastewater in peri-urban wetlands: A case study on East KolkataWetland
Assessment of groundwater artificial recharge from water storage structures in a rural region of west Iran
Hydrological changes in the mediterranean zone: Impacts of environmental modifications and rural development in the Merguellil catchment
Vulnerability mapping in South African karst terrains
The spatial organisation of decentralised wastewater and stormwater management in urban landscape areas
Investigating the relation of a sustainable vernacular technique to settlement pattern
Single family wastewater treatment systems: A guide to select the most suited system
Potential of roof rainwater harvesting for water supply in Jordan
Potential of roof-top rainwater harvesting techniques in urban areas: A case study from India
Determining factors influencing sewer structural deterioration: Leuven (Belgium) case study
Pollution prevention in Philadelphia: Dealing with illicit/defective laterals
Urban water management at UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme
New directions in urban water management
Part four: Rethinking water governance
Keynote papers
Rethinking water governance
Development and regulatory challenges in water services to the urban poor: Examples from Uganda and Tanzania
Rethinking water governance: Towards a new multidimensional approach for mega-cities in developing countries
Session papers
Building more effective partnerships for innovation in urban water management
Can water governance operate in an institutional vacuum?
Bridging science and policy for effective implementation of EU groundwater legislation
Evaluating the need, benefits and challenges of implementing shared water governance in an urban context: Comparing Calgary, Canada and Mexico City, Mexico
Cap-Haïtien: If ever there was an urban water challenge.
Use of the STELLA model for evaluating prospective urban water-use scenarios in Baja, California, Mexico
Assessing the value of water in urban slums: A hedonic price analysis for four cities, Chile
Pricing water and sewerage services in Metro Manila with the contingent valuation method
Inequality and access to water in the city of Cochabamba
Privatisation and universal access to water: Examining the recent phase of water governance in Nigeria
Learning from non-governmental organizations (NGOs): Community participation in water facilities provision in the Ho District of Ghana
Ensuring access to urban water for slum dwellers: An institutional synthesis of low income cities in Bangladesh
A Review of a water supply system in Dhaka city
Inter-basin transfer of Nepal’s water resources for sustainable benefits
Virtual water trade as a solution for water scarcity in Egypt
Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey: An integrated water resources-based project
Real estate investment in high-risk coastal zones
Impacts of trans-border water woes in South Asian riparian countries – assessment and analysis
Water governance, CPR’s and public participation – Challenges to water policies in Portugal
The Latin American water tribunal and the need for public spaces for social participation in water governance
Author index
Back cover