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Urban Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Development: A Review
Sustainability, 2021 Urban green infrastructure (UGI) can alleviate many of the problems that the growing urban population is facing. This study performed a literature review about UGI and sustainable development (SD) using the Web of Science (WoS) and the software VOSviewer.
Elie Hanna, F. Comín
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Synergistic allocation of urban stormwater infrastructure is critical to flood risk prevention and control under extreme rainfall events. This study focuses on the interaction regularity of green, gray, and blue infrastructure in the process of runoff ...
Chen Zhang +6 more
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Urban Ecosystems, 2022 Accelerated urbanization and population growth lead to the fragmentation of urban green space and loss of biodiversity. There are few studies on the integration of structural and functional connectivity to solve this problem.
Yang Liu, Tingting Huang, Xi Zheng
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 The quality, quantity and accessibility of urban greenspaces and green infrastructure offer multiple benefits for city dwellers, the environment and urban sustainability.
Stavros Afionis +3 more
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The effectiveness of urban green infrastructure in reducing surface urban heat island
Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2021 In the era of the devastating impacts of climate change, many cities around the world make strenuous efforts to find suitable and sustainable adaptation strategies to address the climatic dangers.
M. F. Abdulateef, H. Al-Alwan
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Environmental justice implications of siting criteria in urban green infrastructure planning
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 2021 Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to enhance sustainability and resilience. While the rationale for GI primarily focuses on its multifunctionality (e.g.
F. Hoover +3 more
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Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020 Urban green infrastructure provides ecosystem services that are essential to human wellbeing. A dearth of national-scale assessments in the Global South has precluded the ability to explore how political regimes, such as the forced racial segregation in ...
Z. Venter +4 more
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Financing Green Urban Infrastructure [PDF]
OECD Regional Development Working Papers, 2012 This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and
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Land, 2022 The perception of linkages between ecosystem services (ES) and the urban green infrastructure (UGI) is evaluated, and their impact on human well-being (WB) is defined.
Mojca Nastran +3 more
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Land, 2022 Spatial and urban planning are directed towards achieving territorial cohesion as one of the sustainable development goals. Considering the hybrid concept of green infrastructure, this paper aims to provide an “ecological model” of achieving territorial ...
Luka Bajić +4 more
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