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Urban Governance of and for Urban Green and Blue Infrastructure
2021To capture the many complexities, we adopt a broad approach to urban governance, encompassing the diverse combinations of formal, informal and/or customary/traditional institutions and practices in urban areas of the Global South. The broad arguments are illustrated with appropriate examples and boxed case studies to illustrate important dimensions of ...
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Urban waterways as green infrastructure
2018Green infrastructure can be considered as all-natural, semi-natural and artificial networks of multifunctional ecological systems within, around and between urban areas, at all spatial scales. In this chapter, the authors cover how different components of green infrastructure (GI) project management relate to environmental justice (EJ) issues.
Richard Smardon, April Karen Baptiste
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Life cycle implications of urban green infrastructure
Environmental Pollution, 2011Low Impact Development (LID) is part of a new paradigm in urban water management that aims to decentralize water storage and movement functions within urban watersheds. LID strategies can restore ecosystem functions and reduce runoff loadings to municipal water pollution control facilities (WPCF).
Sabrina, Spatari +2 more
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Green Urban Infrastructure: Assessment Challenges
Economics and Management, 2020The presented study addresses the problem of forming and assessing green urban infrastructure, focusing on the elements of green infrastructure in the largest cities of the Russian Federation.Aim. The study aims to analyze approaches to identifying key elements of green infrastructure and methodological approaches to its assessment.Tasks.
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Towards Sustainable Urban Green Infrastructures
2022This chapter serves as a summary of what we have covered in the last four parts of the book in 16 chapters. We could not have put together a more comprehensive volume, providing practitioners, policymakers, and researchers a set of guidelines, best practices, and innovative ideas for the future of green infrastructure practice (i.e., design and ...
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Green infrastructure and urban wellbeing
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022Wenjie Wu, Ye Liu, Zhonghua Gou
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Green Infrastructure Planning in Urban Sweden
Planning Practice and Research, 2002(2002). Green Infrastructure Planning in Urban Sweden. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 373-385.
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Green infrastructure integration in the urban periphery
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, 2017The paper considers the peculiarities of the territorial growth of the St Petersburg periphery and the problems of nature conservation as part of the ecological framework of the city. The author's attention is concentrated on the search for such an alternative solution of urban development, which would ensure the gradual formation of the natural ...
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Singapore’s Green Infrastructure and Biophilic Urbanism
2019Fragmentation of native habitats, regimentation of watercourses and waterbodies, and the rejection of the colonial green belt accounted for the lack of environmental sustainability of the park system. Improvements of urban ecology were achieved through the development of a network of park connectors made of greenways and waterbodies restored with ...
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