Nature-inspired stormwater management practice: The ecological wisdom underlying the Tuanchen drainage system in Beijing, China and its contemporary relevance

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 155, Issue , 2016, Pages 11-20

  Zhang, Lixiao ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Voinov, Alexey ^b   Gao, Sulan ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological wisdom; Hydrological modeling; Stella; Tuancheng; Urban stormwater

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HYDROLOGY; INFILTRATION; SOIL MOISTURE; STORMS;

ECOLOGICAL WISDOM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; STELLA; TUANCHENG; URBAN STORMWATER;

DRAINAGE;

DESIGN; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RAINSTORM; RUNOFF; SOIL WATER; URBAN PLANNING; WATER BUDGET; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RETENTION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84979653150     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.06.015     Document Type: Article

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