Study on Urban Flood Control and Drainage in Beijing

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2381-2385
Author(s):  
Sen Guo Zhan ◽  
Bao Hui Men ◽  
Jia Jie Wu ◽  
Zheng Da Duan
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
City Government ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
The City ◽  
New Look

On 21 July 2012, a huge thunderstorm hit Beijing, prompting the city government to act immediately to deal with the emergency. Yet great losses were caused, exposing problems about urban flood control and drainage, and making people take a new look at them. It is not uncommon for a rainfall of such a degree to happen in Asia. Comparatively speaking, however, unlike in Beijing, fewer damages are caused in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines given the same situation. In this article, therefore, the problems arising after a heavy rainfall and their solutions will be discussed.

scholarly journals Community Satisfaction of the Urban Flood Control System Improvement Project (UFCSI)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sofyan
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
City Government ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Community Satisfaction ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Land Clearing ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study is to encourage ownership, responsibility and to develop stakeholders and policy makers for the river normalization program in the pre-construction, construction and post-construction stages. The use of the IPA method to measure community satisfaction in the quadrants on the Importance Performance Matrix map. The results of the study showed that the socialization from the Department of Water and Public Works, when the project was finished, was not in line with community expectations. Flood control projects that have been built, coordination with the contractor at the time of project implementation, socialization from the city government prior to project implementation, socialization from the city government when the project is finished, socialization from the river hall at the time before project implementation, socialization from the river hall at the time the project was completed, dissemination of information from the irrigation service prior to project implementation, and community involvement in project implementation. The process of land clearing, and the price agreement that has been reached. Improved land clearing, and price agreements that have been reached can be reconsidered because their impact on the benefits felt by the community is very small.

Transgender Narrative in Public Service Announcement

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Anna Puji Lestari ◽  
Yuliyanto Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
City Government ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Public Service Announcement ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Feminine Style ◽  
New City ◽  
The City

After changing its city branding several times, Semarang now has a new city branding, namely "Semarang Variety of Culture." However, the city branding reaped contra from academics and cultural figures because Semarang was considered not sufficient yet in terms of representing its cultural diversity. Responding to this, the Semarang City Government and the Semarang City Public Works Department created a public service advertisement on CCTV socialization for flood control in the city of Semarang with a transgender figure as the ad star. This research was qualitative research designed with Seymour Chatman's Narrative Analysis. The research found a commodification and objectification of transgender people who imitated the feminine style of women in the advertisement. In other words, the public service announcement of Semarang CCTV socialization lowered the femininity, which is synonymous with women.The public service advertisement also violated the moral codes adopted by the majority of the Indonesian people.

An Analysis on the Urban Flood Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 991-995
Author(s):  
Xiu Yong Yi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Engineering Measures ◽  
Diversion Channel ◽  
Engineering Measure ◽  
The City

The urban flood control should be regulated according to the topography, rivers and the regional economics of the city. The regulating reservoirs will be built or rebuilt in the mountain area upstream; the flood would be drawn downstream through the diversion channel. The flood in city would be reduced. The program would to control the rivers in urban area, reduce the elevation of rivers downstream by the non-engineering measure in order to decrease the effect of the backwater. In this paper, we suggested that the program of artificial damaged embankment and the flood compensation foundation as the main measures for flood control in urban area. The safety of the urban area will be ensured by both engineering measures and non-engineering measures from the flood of the rivers.

Design of a Knowledge Management Framework for the City Government of Sorsogon

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gremil Alessandro Naz
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
City Government ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
The Public ◽  
The City ◽  
Quality Policy ◽  
Nations Environment

<p>A previous study commissioned by the League of Cities of the Philippines and funded by the United Nations Environment Programme showed that Sorsogon, an emerging city in the Philippines, does not possess enough data to enact sound policies that balance economic growth and environmental sustainability. To help the city make quality policy decisions, the author designed a knowledge management framework that city leaders can use. The said framework was based on the classic works of Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) and Davenport and Prusak (1998), as well as publications of the Asian Productivity Organization on knowledge management in the public sector. The author also provided examples of specific strategies that Sorsogon City can use to operationalize the framework.</p>

Producing an urban hazardscape beyond the city

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1968-1985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Saguin
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Urban Political Ecology ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Metro Manila ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Urban Risk ◽  
The City ◽  
Laguna Lake

Urban socioecological risk, like other urban metabolic processes, embodies relations between the city and the non-city. In this paper, I trace the production of urban risk within and beyond the city through the lens of the hazardscape using the case of Metro Manila and Laguna Lake in the Philippines. Building on recent interventions in urban political ecology that seek to map the terrains of extending urban frontiers, I examine the processes that construct city and non-city spaces in urbanization through flood control. I synthesize narratives of the material-discursive production of risk mediated by infrastructure with histories of landscape and livelihood change in an urban socioecological frontier to make two related arguments. First, discursive constructions of city and non-city and the material flows that connect them shape the production of urban ecological risk, with material consequences for non-city vulnerabilities. Second, infrastructure plays an important mediating role in the production of hazardscapes. The intersection of flows of water, discursive urban imaginaries in state plans, and livelihoods in Metro Manila and Laguna Lake exemplifies metabolic relations that reveal the spatio-temporal connections of cities with landscapes that make their functioning possible.

Lessons Learned from Tokai Heavy Rainfall

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akihiro Tominaga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Drainage Basins ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Many ◽  
Heavy Damage

In September 2000, heavy rainfall in the Tokai district flooded Nagoya and its surroundings, wreaking heavy damage. This flood showed typical aspects of urban flood disaster. The damage expanded in a wide range and paralyzed city operations. This revealed the many problems of complex flood control systems in urbanized drainage basins and evacuation and rescue systems. The cases of the Shinkawa and Tenpaku Rivers are discussed below as typical urban flood problems.

Comprehensive flood control involving citizens in a Japanese watershed

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sampei Yamashita ◽  
Yukihiro Shimatani ◽  
Ryoichi Watanabe ◽  
Toshiyuki Moriyama ◽  
Tomoko Minagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Flood Disaster ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
The City

In July 2009, the city of Fukuoka, Japan experienced a flood disaster along the Hii River, which runs through densely populated, concrete-covered areas of the city. The drainage system was overwhelmed and the river overflowed due to heavy rainfall and rapid runoff. The event led citizens in its watershed to plan and implement comprehensive flood control. The plan aims not only to mitigate floods but also to revitalize the river environment and populated communities in urban areas. This study reports the activities led by the citizens. They organized and carried out civic forums, workshops, and fieldwork to share views as to how the flood disaster was caused, how floods in the watershed should be controlled, and how the river environment should be rehabilitated. This study illuminates how people, including the flood victims and municipal engineers, can change drastically and communicate effectively in the course of discussing and implementing the comprehensive flood control measures.

scholarly journals Social and Economic Impact of the Colon Night Market to Small Scale Vendors

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoniette M.  Almaden ◽  
Julie Ann Veloso
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
City Government ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Method Analysis

Colon is the oldest street in the Philippines.  It used to be the center of trade and commerce decades ago. The study aimed to determine the vendor demographics and the positive and adverse effects of the city government-organized Colon Night Market Program on the night market vendors in Cebu City, Philippines. Impact Value Chain and Social Return on Investment Method Analysis were used. Two survey questionnaires were prepared: one administered to the vendors that benefited the night market program, and another set was conducted to the customers. The results were validated by in-depth interviews. The study discovered that Muslim-Filipino vendors constituted the group of vendors with the highest proportion while the homegrown Cebuanos constituted the least number. The affirmative effects of the program were identified: better income and improved quality of life for the individuals, creation of more jobs, an offering of better deals and lower price, and the building of camaraderie among vendors. There were also a few negative issues identified. It was also discovered that there is $6.44 dollars for every one dollar invested by the government. It is recommended that the program is operated year-round to achieve a higher return on investment.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Urban Flood Control Project –Case Study at Bendung Watershed in Palembang City, Indonesia–

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rian Dinata
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Small Rivers ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Main River ◽  
Flood Damages ◽  
Cost And Benefit Analysis ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

Abstract:  Palembang City locates on a lowland where the altitude is between 12 and 30m above sea level. There are many small rivers that flow into a main river, Musi river. Due to the topographical configuration and a seasonal heavy rainfall, those rivers had been overflowed and the city had an inundation disaster. Bendung watershed is one of the nineteen watersheds in Palembang City, and the watershed also experiences the inundation disaster frequently due to the flood caused by a poor river maintenance and drainage system.The local government of Palembang City has applied some flood control projects such as a normalization project to reduce the flood damages. These measures checked the river flow over the dike, but some areas still suffered from the flood damages due to their topography. Based on the current situation, this study evaluates the efficiency of the existing normalization project in this watershed to find a solution that reduces the flood in those areas. Furthermore, this study investigates the feasibility of infiltration-well system to overcome the flood in those areas. The feasibility study includes the cost and benefit analysis to realize the infiltration-well system for easing the inundation problem.Abstrak: Kota Palembang terletak di dataran rendah dengan ketinggian antara 12 sampai 30m di atas permukaan laut. Karena konfigurasi topografi dan curah hujan musiman yang tinggi, sebagian Kota Palembang sangat rentan terhadap genangan dan bencana banjir . DAS Bendung merupakan salah satu dari sembilan belas DAS yang ada di Kota Palembang, dan DAS tersebut juga sering mengalami bencana genangan akibat banjir yang disebabkan oleh sistem drainase yang buruk.Pemerintah Daerah Kota Palembang telah menerapkan beberapa proyek pengendalian banjir seperti proyek normalisasi sungai. Proyek ini cukup sukses mencegah air sungai bendung meluap melewati tanggul sungai tersebut, tetapi beberapa lokasi yang jauh dari sungai bendung masih mengalami genangan karena topografinya. Berdasarkan kondisi ini, studi ini mengevaluasi efisiensi proyek normalisasi di DAS ini untuk mencari solusi yang dapat mengurangi banjir di wilayah tersebut. Selanjutnya studi ini mengkaji kelayakan sistem sumur resapan untuk mengatasi banjir di wilayah tersebut. Studi kelayakan lain meliputi analisis biaya dan manfaat sistem sumur resapan untuk mengatasi masalah genangan. 

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