On August 31, the paper titled “Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Runoff Control in China”, co-authored by Professor Jia Haifeng and PhD student Yin Dingkun from the School of Environment, was included in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias of Environmental Science.
In recent years, China has been working on the protection of its urban water environment through ecological construction. To solve urban stormwater problems and pursue urban sustainable development, the focus is to build the Sponge City (SPC) which is an approach that considers many issues including water ecology, public safety, and environmental protection. As the key to the construction of SPC, green infrastructure (GI), if well-planned and arranged, can effectively store rainwater runoff, reduce runoff pollutant load, and relieve the drainage pressure of municipal pipe network. The paper reviews the development of GI in SPC by looking at its planning and construction, classification, monitoring and evaluation, and long-term operation and maintenance. The paper also emphasizes on the comprehensive construction of multi-objective stormwater drainage and flood mitigation systems and the combination of GI with traditional gray infrastructure, which provide implications and support for the development of SPC in China.
Different hydrological processes in(a) traditional city construction model and (b) SPC construction model
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