Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: the Blue-Green Advantage - A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Opportunities Event

本次研讨会是继英国和美国学者之间非常成功的合作之后进行的，该合作得到了EPSRC研究联盟关于“在蓝绿色城市中提供和评估多种洪水风险效益”的“人人享有清洁水”赠款的支持。该活动由诺丁汉大学主办，来自宁波市的科学家、工程师和规划师与来自英国、中国和美国的顶尖学者齐聚一堂。会议的目的是促进知识和经验的交流，探讨使用综合排水系统的优势、最佳做法和绿色基础设施，以提供可持续的城市供水、洪水风险和环境管理。宁波市正在使用新方法来创造理想的城市环境，例如，创建一个3.3公里的城市生态走廊（http://www.asla.org/2013awards/253.html）。美国团队最近完成了俄勒冈州波特兰和华盛顿州温哥华的水和环境治理的比较研究（http://www.fsl.orst.edu/eco-p/ultra/），而英国团队代表的研究联盟目前正在评估蓝绿城市的多重效益（http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/index.aspx）.A Blue-Green City)，旨在通过将水管理和绿色基础设施结合在一起，重建一个以自然为导向的水循环，同时为城市的舒适性做出贡献。这是通过结合和保护城市景观的水文和生态价值，同时提供弹性和适应性措施来应对洪水事件来实现的。创新的蓝绿水管理方法旨在通过连贯和综合的策略来满足城市排水和规划的需求，并重视蓝绿资产之间的联系和互动。在宁波研讨会期间，中、英、美团队将交流专业技术知识，分享关于城市水文学、水力学、地貌学、生态学、林业和社区观念的想法，以建立和评估将绿色基础设施与传统管道排水相结合的效益。然而，在蓝绿设计中，有远见的领导和社区参与至关重要，这将是整个活动的中心主题。

This workshop follows on from the highly successful collaboration between UK and US academics supported by the award of a Clean Water for All grant to the EPSRC Research Consortium on 'Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood-risk Benefits in Blue-Green Cities'. The event is hosted by the University of Nottingham and brings together scientists, engineers and planners from the City of Ningbo with leading academics from the UK, China and USA. The aim is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience on the advantages of using integrated drainage systems, best practices and green infrastructure to provide sustainable urban water, flood risk and environmental management. The City of Ningbo is using new approaches to creating an ideal urban environment through, for example, creating a 3.3 km urban eco-corridor (http://www.asla.org/2013awards/253.html). The US team recently completed a comparative study of water and environmental governance in Portland Oregon and Vancouver, Washington (http://www.fsl.orst.edu/eco-p/ultra/), while the UK team represent the research consortium currently evaluating the multiple benefits of Blue-Green Cities (http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/index.aspx).A Blue-Green City aims to recreate a naturally-oriented water cycle while contributing to the amenity of the city by bringing water management and green infrastructure together. This is achieved by combining and protecting the hydrological and ecological values of the urban landscape while providing resilient and adaptive measures to deal with flood events. The innovative Blue-Green approach to water management in the city aims to satisfy the demands of urban drainage and planning via coherent and integrated strategies, and places value on the connection and interaction between blue and green assets. During the Ningbo Workshop, the Chinese, British and American teams will exchange specialist technical knowledge and share ideas on urban hydrology, hydraulics, geomorphology, ecology, forestry and community perceptions to establish and evaluate the benefits using green infrastructure in conjunction with conventional piped drainage. However, Visionary Leadership and Community Engagement in Blue-Green Design are vital, and these will be central themes throughout the Event.