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Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

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Project • CRRP2020-03MY-He

Urban water management and flood risk reduction: A platform to share integrated sustainable practices in Asian coastal countries

This project aims to develop a platform for urban flood risk mitigation as well as water quality improvement in Asian coastal cities. Special attention will be paid to the impacts of climate change and urbanization on water allocation and water quality levels in soil, river water and coastal water by using the latest CMIP6 Socio-economic climate change scenarios centred on SSPs (Shared Socio-economic Pathways). The platform will be developed and set up based on existing projects and models. It includes (1) a flood model, to assess how climate and human activities will impact hydrological processes and surface water levels, (2) a river water quality model, to assess how river flow changes combined with human activities will impact surface water quality and nutrient levels especially during flood events, (3) a coupled model to be used as a management tool for flood and water quality management in flood. These three models will form the basis for a new integrated platform to assess flood, water allocation, water quality, nutrients, and to explore new scenarios for improved water allocation and water quality. Furthermore, it will address multifaceted challenges of excessive runoff, water scarcity as well as water pollution due to climate change and human activities by providing urban-system based adaptation measures to strengthen resilience of the study sites that can be extended to traditional urban water management systems to cope with climate change and urban development.

Project publications

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Individual and combined toxicity of microplastics and diuron differs between freshwater and marine diatoms

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Spatially Non-Stationary Relationships between Changing Environment and Water Yield Services in Watersheds of China’s Climate Transition Zones

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

A quantitative analysis of research trends in flood hazard assessment

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Urban Flood-Related Remote Sensing: Research Trends, Gaps and Opportunities

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Interactions between shrub encroachment and water infiltration on the hillslope of a typical steppe

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Comparative Assessment of Sponge City Constructing in Public Awareness, Xi’an, China

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Individual and combined toxicity of microplastics and diuron differs between freshwater and marine diatoms

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Separation membranes with long-term stability and high flux prepared through intramembrane dopamine-based nanoparticle assembly

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Quantifying streamflow predictive uncertainty for the optimization of short-term cascade hydropower stations operations

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Evaluation of agriculture non-point pollution load and its characteristics in all districts and counties of Guangdong

Peer-reviewed publication • 2022

Influence of co-existing anions and cations on phosphate sequestration onto goethite

Peer-reviewed publication • 2021

Multi-component runoff simulation in arid area based on BP neural network