Partners
Guangzhou, C40 Cities
Description: city profile and case studies
https://www.c40.org/cities/guangzhou
暨南大学环境与气候研究院
Description: Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University
珠江水利委员会珠江水利科学研究院
Description: Pearl River Water Conservancy Research Institute
Resources
Academic articles
Meng, M, Dabrowski, M.M, Chan, Faith, Stead, D, Galderisi, Aiana, & Colucci, Angela. (2018). Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk: Development of the Sponge City Program in Guangzhou. In Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities. Elsevier.
Description: local implementation challenges of the national Sponge City program
https://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:tudelft.nl:uuid:765092a7-2ecd-452f-b842-e03afc908886
Liu, T.; Ren, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Feng, B.; Lin, H.; Xiao, J.; Zeng, W.; Li, X.; Li, Z.; Rutherford, S.; Xu, Y.; Lin, S.; Nasca, P.C.; Du, Y.; Wang, J.; Huang, C.; Jia, P.; Ma, W. 2019. Modification Effects of Population Expansion, Ageing, and Adaptation on Heat-Related Mortality Risks Under Different Climate Change Scenarios in Guangzhou, China. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 16, 376.
Description: quantitative study of population and aging under different climate scenarios
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/3/376#cite
Zhu, Zhanqiang, Ren, Jie, & Liu, Xuan. (2019). Green infrastructure provision for environmental justice: Application of the equity index in Guangzhou, China. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 46, 126443.
Description: builds an integrated equity index map and compares to the Sponge City program
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126443
Liu, J. (2020). Narrating the impacts of climate change for urban health governance in Guangzhou, China. Cities & Health, 1-16.
Description: qualitative case study of climate change and health policies
https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2019.1701945
Lin, Weibin, Sun, Yimin, Nijhuis, Steffen, & Wang, Zhaoli. (2020). Scenario-based flood risk assessment for urbanizing deltas using future land-use simulation (FLUS): Guangzhou Metropolitan Area as a case study. The Science of the Total Environment, 739, 139899.
Description: land-use models for coastal flood risk assessment