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Green Blue Infrastructure methodologies and design proposals

open access: yes, 2022
The Green Blue Infrastructure is a multifunctional and flexible approach based on various layers, composing an organic network. This design methodology has the potential to recompose together fragments of the contemporary city, generating positive ...

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Urban green infrastructure in Nigeria: A review

open access: yesScientific African, 2021
Urban green infrastructure is critical to sustainable cities and society, especially in rapidly urbanising developing countries. This paper provides a review of studies on urban greening in Nigeria.
Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun   +3 more
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Planning Green Infrastructure as a Source of Urban and Regional Resilience – Towards Institutional Challenges [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2015
Green infrastructure programmes and strategies are regarded as planning opportunities to promote sustainable and resilient urban development. However, the discourse about green infrastructure policy and its effectiveness has pointed to the limited ...
Paulina SCHIAPPACASSE, Bernhard MÜLLER
doaj   +1 more source

Green Infrastructure and Urban Vacancies: Land Cover and Natural Environment as Predictors of Vacant Land in Austin, Texas

open access: yesLand, 2023
Urban vacancies have been a concern for neighborhood distress and economic decline and have gained more recent attention as potential green infrastructure is known to benefit communities in diverse ways.
Young-Jae Kim   +3 more
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Performance assessment for the integrated green-gray-blue infrastructure under extreme rainfall scenarios

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Lack of Cross-Sector and Cross-Level Policy Coherence and Consistency Limits Urban Green Infrastructure Implementation in Malawi

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Changes of Urban Greenspace Coverage and Exposure in China

open access: yes, 2022
Urban greenspace, as an essential component of green infrastructure, is particularly important in the urban environment that maintains the function and sustainability of urbanities.
Yimeng Song   +5 more
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Utilization patterns of urban green infrastructure in southern Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2018
Urban green infrastructure provides multi-functional socio-economic and environmental benefits and promotes physical, relaxation, and the social activities of the urban residents.
M.B. Molla   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disaster Risks and Resilience of Urban Bangladesh: Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure

open access: yes, 2022
Bangladesh is ranked as the fifth most disaster-prone country in the world. It is also the eighth most populous in the world, where the annual rate of urbanization is around 3%, which is one of the highest in South Asia.
Reazul Ahsan   +7 more
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Green infrastructure to enhance urban sustainability

open access: yesInternational journal of health sciences, 2022
Green infrastructure is one of the main design strategies that must be developed within the urban plans of any city, its essential role in achieving the principles of sustainability and enhance its social, economic and environmental pillars. It contributes to increasing the quality of life within urban cities, areas and vitality, as well as making it ...
Donya Hameed Ali Alanbari   +2 more
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