1 Relevance and strategic framework ......................... 13
2 Challenges and demands .................................... 19
2.1 Water Resources ........................................... 20
2.1.1 Safeguarding surface and drinking water quality .... 21
2.1.2 Safeguarding and managing groundwater resources .... 23
2.1.3 Coastal Aquifer Systems ............................ 24
2.2 Land use, soil and biodiversity ........................... 25
2.2.1 Agriculture ........................................ 25
2.2.2 Land management under climate change ............... 25
2.2.3 Soil erosion ....................................... 26
2.2.4 Biodiversity ....................................... 27
2.3 Renewable Energy Resources ................................ 27
2.3.1 Geoenergy .......................................... 28
2.3.2 Bioenergy .......................................... 29
2.4 Wastewater Management and Treatment ....................... 30
2.5 Municipal Solid Waste Management .......................... 33
2.6 Air Pollution ............................................. 33
2.7 Information science for environmental management .......... 35
2.8 Environmental governance, law and management .............. 36
3 Past and ongoing activities ............................... 41
3.1 Water resources ........................................... 42
3.1.1 Safeguarding drinking water quality/supply ......... 42
3.1.2 Safeguarding groundwater resources ................. 43
3.2 Land use, soil and biodiversity ........................... 43
3.2.1 Influence of 2000 years of rice cultivation on
the greenhouse gas CO2 ............................. 43
3.2.2 The role of tree and shrub diversity for
production, erosion control, element cycling, and
species conservation in Chinese subtropical
forest ecosystems (BEF-China) ...................... 44
3.3 Energy resources .......................................... 46
3.4 Wastewater management and treatment ....................... 47
3.5 Environmental information science ......................... 48
3.6 Outreach and community activities ......................... 49
4 Major interests for future cooperation .................... 51
4.1 Water resources ........................................... 53
4.1.2 Safeguarding and managing groundwater resources .... 56
4.1.3 Urban flooding mitigation .......................... 59
4.2 Land use, soil and biodiversity ........................... 62
4.3 Renewable energy resources ................................ 67
4.3.1 Geothermal energy .................................. 67
4.3.2 Energy from biomass ................................ 67
4.4 Waste water management (treatment and recycling) .......... 69
4.4.1 Decentralized concepts and technologies ............ 69
4.4.2 Monitoring concepts ................................ 70
4.4.3 Innovative waste water treatment technologies ...... 71
4.4.4 Drinking water quality - disinfection .............. 72
4.4.5 Recycling (wastewater in a circular economy) ....... 73
4.5 Municipal solid waste management .......................... 76
4.6 Air pollution and urban climate ........................... 78
4.7 Environmental information science ......................... 80
4.8 Environ, management and governance, urbanization .......... 81
4.8.1 Water governance ................................... 81
4.8.2 Urbanization and land-use .......................... 82
5 Appendices ................................................ 85
5.1 Contributions and acknowledgements ........................ 85
5.2 Cooperation matrices ...................................... 86
5.2.1 Water resources .................................... 86
5.2.2 Land use, soil and biodiversity .................... 87
5.2.3 Renewable energy resources ......................... 88
5.2.4 Waste water management ............................. 88
5.2.5 Municipal solid waste management ................... 90
5.2.6 Air pollution and urban climate .................... 90
5.2.7 Environmental information science .................. 90
5.2.8 Environmental management, governance, and
urbanization ....................................... 91
5.3 Events .................................................... 92
5.4 Projects .................................................. 95
5.5 Personnel exchange (long-term) ............................ 96
5.6 Partners .................................................. 97
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