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Making green infrastructure healthier infrastructure

Infection Ecology & Epidemiology, 2015
Increasing urban green and blue structure is often pointed out to be critical for sustainable development and climate change adaptation, which has led to the rapid expansion of greening activities in cities throughout the world. This process is likely to have a direct impact on the citizens' quality of life and public health.
Mare Lõhmus, John Balbus
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An Exploratory Case-Study Approach to Understand Multifunctionality in Urban Green Infrastructure Planning in a South African Context

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intend to encourage liveable urban environments by 2030 with a main focus on strategies to achieve environmental and human well-being.
Burne Van Zyl, Louis G. Lategan, Elizelle J. Cilliers, Elizelle J. Cilliers, Sarel S. Cilliers   +4 more
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Understanding Urban Green Spaces Typology’s Contribution to Comprehensive Green Infrastructure Planning: A Study of Canberra, the National Capital of Australia

Land, 2023
The urban densification agenda for the Australian Capital Territory announced in 2012 as well as the climate-related impacts (such as flood and rising temperature) have made the role of green infrastructure in this city more critical than at any other ...
Maria Ignatieva, Fahimeh Mofrad
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Changes and Characteristics of Green Infrastructure Network Based on Spatio-Temporal Priority

Land, 2022
With advancements in urbanization, natural lands are constantly being encroached upon by artificial impervious surfaces, leading to serious ecosystem damage.
Xifan Chen, Lihua Xu, Rusong Zhu, Qiwei Ma, Yijun Shi, Zhangwei Lu   +5 more
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Setting the Standard for Green Infrastructure: The Need for, and Features of, a Benchmark in England [PDF]

, 2018
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Green infrastructure is an essential component of health and sustainable places. The quality of green infrastructure often represents a missed opportunity
Smith, Nick, Burgess, Sarah, Calvert, Tom, Sinnett, Danielle, Jerome, Gemma, King, Louise   +5 more
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Combining gray and green infrastructure to improve coastal resilience: lessons learnt from hybrid flood defenses [PDF]

, 2021
Shoreline erosion and storm tide inundation increasingly threaten coastal populations, infrastructure and economies. Hard infrastructure, known as gray infrastructure (e.g.
Waryszak, Paweł, Macreadie, Peter I., Kelvin, Jaya, Whitt, Ashley A., Gavoille, Alice   +4 more
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A comprehensive study of the city's green infrastructure. The case of Yekaterinburg

Архитектон, 2023
The subject of the study is green city infrastructure. The content of the concept ‘green infrastructure’ is expounded, and the reasons why the term ‘green infrastructure’ is now mostly used.
Gushchin Alexander N., Divakova Marina N., Musaev Timur I.   +2 more
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Contributions of green infrastructure to enhancing urban resilience [PDF]

, 2018
© 2018, The Author(s). After briefly reviewing key resilience engineering perspectives and summarising some green infrastructure (GI) tools, we present the contributions that GI can make to enhancing urban resilience and maintaining critical system ...
Hart, Aimee, Laura De Vito, Staddon, Chad, Zuniga-Teran, Adriana, Giles Booth, Gerlak, Andrea K., Yolandi Schoeman, Ward, Sarah, Sarah Ward, Schoeman, Yolandi, Andrea K. Gerlak, De Vito, Laura, Aimee Hart, Booth, Giles, Chad Staddon, Adriana Zuniga-Teran   +15 more
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Green Infrastructure

Jurnal Perpajakan dan Keuangan Publik
This chapter explores Green Infrastructure (GI) as a pivotal approach in sustainable urban development, integrating natural and engineered systems to create resilient and livable cities. It examines how GI enhances ecosystem services, mitigates climate change impacts, and supports biodiversity while contributing to human well-being.
Manjari Sharma, Sharad Gupta, T. Mahesh Kumar   +2 more
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“Green infrastructure” of urbanized territories [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Currently, there is a process of spatial concentration of the population and the spread of urban lifestyle, which inevitably leads to the expansion of the boundaries of cities and their sphere of influence, an increase in the diversity of activities.
Maksimenko Ljubov, Dudinova Olga, Korobova Olga   +2 more
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