Meng Meng

South China University of Technology | SCUT ·  Department of Architecture

Numerous scholars have warned that many cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) are threatened by severe flood risk, which is often underestimated. Considering this, we provide a scenario-based Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) approach to analyse the roles of adaptation strategies on the environment in response to climate change and flooding r...

China and Europe have the common problem of mitigating flood risk, a problem partly created from poor management of the urban transition now compounded by the effects of climate change on sea level and extreme weather events. Adaptation to these effects requires extensive cooperation between administrative jurisdictions and policy sectors to streng...

Floods caused by extreme weather events and climate change have increased in occurrence and severity all over the world, resulting in devastation and disruption of activities. Researchers and policy practitioners have increasingly paid attention to the role of critical infrastructure (CI) in disaster risk reduction, flood resilience and climate cha...

Researchers and policymakers have long called for a collaborative governance process for climate adaptation and flood resilience. However, this is usually challenging when urban planning is supposed to be integrated with water management. Using the Chinese city of Guangzhou as a case study, this study explores the long-term disadvantaged conditions...

Since the reform and opening up， urbanization and urban renewal in China have developed rapidly． This paper proposes an organic regeneration scheme to help the Liuyun Community, located at the new urban axis of Guangzhou, to realize diverse social integration． In particular, the scheme creates a series of innovations in the urban design process to...

The need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental-technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof facad...

Given the greater risk of flooding in cities due to climate change, spatial planning systems are increasingly expected to contribute to flood resilience. However, incorporating expanded adaption measures in conventional planning practices remains a major challenge due to institutional barriers. Based on the theories of historical institutionalism i...

Blue Line planning is one significant approach for spatial planning to deal with water affairs, for instance, ecological improvement, water resources protection and flooding. However, mismatches in multi-level governance, separations between horizontal sectors and blur regulations across policy institutions lead to institutional divergence in water...

The cities of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) have been experiencing an unprecedented urban expansion for the past four decades, leading to emergence of one of the most populous and dynamic urban regions. However, these rapidly expanding cities located in a low-lying delta area also face increasing flood risk due to a combination of anthropogenic and n...

With global warming, rising sea levels, and more frequent extreme rainfall events, the need for flood climate adaptation planning has become more urgent. At present, there are relatively few planning studies from the perspective of rainstorm climate adaptation in China. In this study, the Sentinel-1 Multi-Temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) was...

The notion of the integration between water management and spatial planning is increasingly prevalent in governing climate adaptation. As a pioneer, the Netherlands has made a great effort to support this idea. This paper first introduces the evolution of organizational structures of the Dutch government since the 1990s. In this process, the extern...

The research was inspired by the increasing impact of extreme weather events and changing climate patterns on flood-prone regions and cities, and the consequent human and economic costs. Despite global efforts for flood resilience and climate adaptation involving climate analysts, economists, social scientists, politicians, hydrological engineers,...

The research was inspired by the increasing impact of extreme weather events and changing climate patterns on flood-prone regions and cities, and the consequent human and economic costs. Despite global efforts for flood resilience and climate adaptation involving climate analysts, economists, social scientists, politicians, hydrological engineers,...

The need to respond to increasing flood risk, climate change, and rapid urban development has shaped innovative policies and practices of spatial planning in many countries over recent decades. As an instrumental-technical intervention, planning is mainly used to improve the physical environment (through concepts such as regulating waterproof facad...

The paper examines the development of different spatial plans to address flood resilience in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, one of the most vulnerable cities to flooding and climate change. The analysis focuses on the differences in planning procedures and planning mandates (determined by different plans in authority) before and after the launch of...

Integration of flood risk in spatial planning is increasingly seen as a way to enhance cities' resilience to the growing flood hazards, albeit its operationalisation remains challenging. This study aims to explain the reasons for this difficulty through the case study of Guangzhou, a Chinese delta city that is highly vulnerable to coastal, fluvial...

Many Chinese cities are increasingly exposed to the impacts of climate change, particularly to flooding. The national Sponge City program was set up to address this challenge. This chapter examines how municipal interventions in spatial planning have been formulated in response to this national program . The case of Guangzhou is examined, a mega-ci...

Based on the framework of governance adapted from the work of Patsy Healey and drawing on the case of Guangzhou, which is regarded as the most vulnerable city in China to flooding and waterlogging, this paper adds to the literature on urban climate change adaptation. It does so by shedding light on the history of the city's struggle against the wat...