Green infrastructure
THE VALUE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR URBAN CLIMATE ADAPTATION
... In Portland, storm-water runoff conveys a variety of contaminants from properties and roadways into local sewers where it combines with raw sewage producing sewer overflows into local streams and rivers. In 1991, to ...
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Investing in Growth: Understanding the Value of Green Infrastructure
... Most green infrastructure cannot be easily ...improving green infrastructure leads to ongoing community resilience and ...affecting green infrastructure are undertaken, even if ...
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National benchmark for green infrastructure: A feasibility study
... The KTP began in August 2015, partly in response to a green infrastructure workshop that had been held at the start of 2014. The event was well attended by developers, with the UK’s most significant ...
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Optimization of green infrastructure practices for industrial areas
... of green space available on the earth surface is ...stormwater, Green Infrastructure (GI) practices have been introduced which is currently becoming one of the most promising strategies of nonpoint ...
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Project Report: Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Coastal Communities
... Green infrastructure is an approach to water resource management that incorporates vegetation, soils, and natural processes into the built environment to manage stormwater, mitigate the impacts of climate ...
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Building Green Infrastructure Across University Campuses: A Research
... States Green Building Council (USGBC) establishes one such efficiency standard through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification ...LEED® green building certification and ...
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Urban green infrastructure and competitiveness of cities in India
... Urban green infrastructure is a planning and design strategy which improves urban green space systems to be multifunctional green and blue networks (Shi, 2008; Tzoulas et ...of green ...
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Green Infrastructure Economic Framework: Summary Report
... Green infrastructure describes the green spaces and water systems which intersperse, connect and provide vital life support for humans and other species within our urban ...environments. Green ...
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Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services – Is the Devil in the Detail?
... This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Annals of Botany following peer review. The version of record [Ross W. F. Cameron and Tijana Blanuša Green ...
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Green infrastructure in settlements and cities of the future – two case studies; green roof and treatment wetland
... urban infrastructure, leading to the application of green infrastructure, innovative green tech- nologies or combination of technologies for integrated management of water, food and energy ...
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Using green infrastructure to improve urban air quality (GI4AQ)
... of green infrastructure (GI) is seen as a win– win solution to urban air pollution, reducing ground-level concentrations without imposing restrictions on traffic and other polluting ...
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Is it Good to be Green?: An Assessment of County Green Infrastructure Planning in Colorado, Florida, and Maryland
... of green spaces or sensitive environmental areas cannot address regional variation or differences in local ...priorities. Green infrastructure planning includes all strategies, policies, and analyses ...
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Assessing the Economic Value of Green Infrastructure: Literature Review
... of infrastructure systems and urban built environments (McDaniels et ...the infrastructure of the developed world will need to be replaced or rebuilt, and even more infrastructure will be needed to ...
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GIS-Based Ecosystem Service Analysis of Green Infrastructure
... a green infrastructure, and federal agencies have started collaborating to help the community invest in green roof, roadside rain gardens and increased tree ...the green ...
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Planning of Green Infrastructure for an Urban Area – A Case of Visakhapatnam
... Managing storm water runoff to protect the lower areas and to provide irrigation for drought susceptible areas of green infrastructure to sustain their cooling function for the city. Provision of corridors ...
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To green or not to green! That is the question. Does green infrastructure provide significant thermoregulation in a maritime temperate climate?
... urban green infrastructure (UGI) is now ...of green interventions are discussed ...of green façades to cool a wall system and the second illustrates the cooling influence conferred by roadside ...
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Investing in Growth: Understanding the Value of Green Infrastructure Workshop Report
... valuing green infrastructure. They also illustrated the potential of green infrastructure to provide important economic and social benefits for ...of green infrastructure ...
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Green infrastructure and green infrastructure planning : a review of concepts and practices with particular reference to Berlin, Germany
... view green infrastructure planning as ‘more complex, in both subject matter and process, than conventional open space planning—and potentially more effective in enhancing liveability for human communities ...
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The Implementation of Green Infrastructure: Relating a General Concept to Context and Site
... Abstract: In the quest for more sustainable urban landscape development, the concept of ‘green infrastructure’ (GI) has become central in policy documents and as a multifunctional general planning tool. GI ...
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Green Municipal Bonds and the Financing of Green Infrastructure in the United States
... issuing green muni bonds with longer tenors, larger issuances, more taxable bond offerings, and aggregation of multiple energy projects into a single ...context, green bonds can be seen to have an important ...
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