Historical assessment of Chinese and Japanese flood management policies and implications for managing future floods
Pingping Luo,Pingping Luo,Pingping Luo,Bin He,Kaoru Takara,Yin E. Xiong,Daniel Nover,Weili Duan,Kensuke Fukushi +8 more
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In this article, the authors present insights taken from an historical overview of Japanese and Chinese flood management policies in order to guide future flood risk management policy to better manage increasingly frequent extreme events and climate change.About:
This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2015-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 87 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Flood myth & Natural disaster.read more
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Floods and associated socioeconomic damages in China over the last century
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a spatiotemporal evaluation of the changes in floods and associated socioeconomic damage in China over the last century, which revealed that 5-10-year flood were the main problem in flood disasters in China in recent decades.
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Assessment of stormwater runoff management practices and governance under climate change and urbanization: An analysis of Bangkok, Hanoi and Tokyo
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an assessment of stormwater runoff management practices to achieve urban water security, which can be achieved through optimal collection, infiltration and storage of storm water.
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Historical assessment and future sustainability challenges of Egyptian water resources management
Pingping Luo,Yutong Sun,Shuangtao Wang,Simeng Wang,Jiqiang Lyu,Meimei Zhou,Ken’ichi Nakagami,Kaoru Takara,Daniel Nover +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive overview of water management policies in Egypt to identify current trends and conditions, as well as the challenges and implications for sustainable water governance and management.
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Water quality trend assessment in Jakarta: A rapidly growing Asian megacity
Pingping Luo,Shuxin Kang,Apip,Meimei Zhou,Jiqiang Lyu,Siti Aisyah,Mishra Binaya,Ram Krishna Regmi,Daniel Nover +8 more
TL;DR: Although Jakarta’s water quality has shown some improvement, it remains heavily impaired and the average value of BOD is low in upper stream stations compared to middle and lower stream stations, and TSS trends show increasing trends.
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Urban and river flooding: Comparison of flood risk management approaches in the UK and China and an assessment of future knowledge needs
Matteo Rubinato,Matteo Rubinato,Andrew Nichols,Y. Peng,Jianming Zhang,Craig Lashford,Yanpeng Cai,Penghzi Lin,Simon Tait +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the current flooding challenges that are affecting the UK and China and the actions that each country is undertaking to tackle these problems, focusing on learning from previous flooding events and which management methodologies are commonly used to reduce flood risk.
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