Global Green Infrastructure

Author : Ian Mell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317520573

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Over the last decade research exploring green infrastructure planning has burgeoned. Transferable green infrastructure messages between locations though are less well established and there remains a visible gap between the conceptual understanding of green infrastructure and its application in practice. Drawing together evaluations of green infrastructure policy-making and practice from across the world Global Green Infrastructure illustrates where successful practices can be identified. Examples from major green infrastructure development areas in the UK, Europe and the USA highlight the variety of investment options that can deliver socio-economic benefits. There is also a growing awareness of the added value of landscape planning in the rapidly developing cities of India and China. Reflecting on ten international case studies Global Green Infrastructure highlights the ways that ecology and engineered solutions can deliver successful urban development. Based on in situ research with the growing community of green infrastructure researchers and practitioners Global Green Infrastructure looks at the contradictions, consensus, and expanding evidence base of successful investments. This book also presents an in-depth commentary on the contemporary approaches to investment in urban greening and green infrastructure, and draws on the lessons we have learnt from a decade of experimentation, delivery and reflection.

Author : Roberto La Rocca,Aldo Baietti,The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821395271

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Green Infrastructure Finance by Roberto La Rocca,Aldo Baietti,The World Bank Pdf

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Author : Carlo Secchi,Alessandro Gili
Publisher : Ledizioni
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788855265355

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The Global Quest for Sustainability by Carlo Secchi,Alessandro Gili Pdf

In the aftermath of the pandemic, global demand for infrastructure is booming. National plans around the world show that infrastructure is likely to provide the backbone for a resurgence in public expenditure, and to support growth in economies badly hit by the pandemic.As all the biggest powers and blocs (the EU, the US, China, and Japan) have recently announced their plans for climate or carbon neutrality, the room and need for green and sustainable infrastucture are greatly expanding. Decarbonisation and digitalisation will be underpinning this latest investment drive in infrastructure, with sustainability and ESG principles at its core. However, infrastructure expenditure will not come without risk: after the pandemic, the world will be left with the highest levels of public andprivate debt since World War II, and the sustainability of key investment decisions must be carefully evaluated.How to foster quality and sustainable infrastructure investment? What role for the private sector? What future for sustainable mobility? What kind of policies will countries adopt to reach carbon neutrality?

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264928787

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Green Finance and Investment Green Infrastructure in the Decade for Delivery Assessing Institutional Investment by OECD Pdf

Building green is not only imperative to achieve global climate and development commitments in this “decade for delivery”, but will also be critical to sustain socio-economic development during the COVID-19 recovery. Private investment in particular is needed to bridge the infrastructure investment gap, given institutional investors’ large pools of long-term capital.

Author : Alessandro Gili,Carlo Secchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8855265369

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Author : Ian C. Mell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351359283

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Green Infrastructure by Ian C. Mell Pdf

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing. How we interact with, manage and value these spaces is important, as it helps us to ensure we live in attractive, functional and sustainable places. Green Infrastructure planning is the current ‘go-to’ approach in landscape planning that incorporates human-environmental interactions, understandings of ecology and how socio-cultural factors influence our use of parks, gardens and waterways. This book explores several interpretations of Green Infrastructure bringing together case studies of policy, practice, ecological change and community understandings of landscape. Focusing on how planning policy shapes our interactions with the landscape, as individuals and communities, the book discusses what works and what needs to be improved. It examines how environmental management can promote more sustainable approaches to landscape protection ensuring that water resources and ecological communities are not harmed by development. It also asks what the economic and community values of Green Infrastructure are to illustrate how different social, ecological and political factors influence how our landscapes are managed. The central message of the book focusses on the promotion of multi-functional nature within urban landscapes that helps people, the economy and the environment to meet the challenges of population, infrastructure and economic change. The chapters in this book were origianally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.

Author : Aldo Baietti,Andrey Shlyakhtenko,Roberto La Rocca,Urvaksh D. Patel
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821394892

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Green Infrastructure Finance by Aldo Baietti,Andrey Shlyakhtenko,Roberto La Rocca,Urvaksh D. Patel Pdf

This report is a structured compendium of leading initiatives and activities put forward to accelerate private investment flows in green growth. It summarizes current investment challenges of green projects as well as proposed solutions, financing schemes and initiatives that have set the stage for scaling up green infrastructure investments.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292693909

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Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This report explores green bonds and other finance instruments for climate-resilient infrastructure to help meet the growing demand for green investments and achieve a low carbon economy in Indonesia. The Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) consulted with experts in partnership with ADB, the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility, and PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur under Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance in preparing this updated report, following previous editions published in 2018 and 2019. It as part of a series of reports for various countries developed by CBI to promote green financing among various stakeholders and development partners in the public and private sectors, including project owners and developers, institutional investors, asset managers, financial institutions, government bodies, and international organizations.

Author : ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT.,OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264404430

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Green Infrastructure in the Decade for Delivery by ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT.,OECD Pdf

Building green is not only imperative to achieve global climate and development commitments in this "decade for delivery", but will also be critical to sustain socio-economic development during the COVID-19 recovery. Private investment in particular is needed to bridge the infrastructure investment gap, given institutional investors' large pools of long-term capital. After several years of efforts to upscale institutional investment in infrastructure, where does the level of investment stand today? This report provides a first-of-its-kind empirical assessment of investment in infrastructure by institutional investors domiciled in OECD and G20 countries, presenting a snapshot from February 2020. Based on a new detailed view of investment channels, financial instruments, sectoral allocations, regional preferences and trends, the report provides guidance on policy levers and priorities to scale-up institutional investment in green infrastructure.

Author : Keerththana Kumareswaran,Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031370816

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Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience by Keerththana Kumareswaran,Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe Pdf

This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smart city development, urban climate change nexus, green buildings and rating systems, economic assessment, and quantification of green infrastructure. The impending climate crisis, as well as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted the importance of green infrastructure in and around cities, prompting a call for more functional and sustainable urban planning and design. A number of recent studies have shown that green infrastructure provides a wide range of ecosystem functions and services critical to human well-being and urban sustainability, which is especially important during climatic and health crises. In this book, the authors emphasize the importance of existing green infrastructure in coping with climate change-induced stresses, such as increasing climate variability and extreme temperature and precipitation events, as well as contributing to urban dwellers' physical and mental health. Green infrastructure, in both cases, plays a significant role in providing urban areas with resilience capacity, which is critical to urban sustainability. The authors also emphasize the importance of expanding and improving green infrastructure, particularly in vulnerable areas, through integrative and participatory processes. Appropriate integration of green-gray infrastructure and development of climate resilient cities is the core theme of this publication. Further, it emphasizes sustainable development which has become an imperative requirement to the world to move fore and climate change-built environment nexus, the most critical global crisis. Though several books were published globally on the green infrastructure and urban resilience individually, books are rarely published combining both disciplines. This book identifies and addresses the gap through comprehensively discussing on both interlinked areas which is essential for the sustainable urban development. Further, it explores on urban climate resilience, urban sprawl, urbanization, resilience drivers, essentials of city resilience, policy implications, challenges, and future perspectives. This book is a useful fundamental guide in practical applications of green infrastructure in built environment in sustainability context. Further, it enlightens on the significance of transforming the conventional building construction trend to sustainable urban planning designs and building development, exploring on the strategic pathway on building urban climate resilience while signifying the importance of healthy built environment through discussing on the nexus between climate change and built environment.

Author : Karen Firehock,R. Andrew Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1589484924

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Green Infrastructure by Karen Firehock,R. Andrew Walker Pdf

Author : Christopher Coutts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317298571

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Green Infrastructure and Public Health by Christopher Coutts Pdf

There is a growing body of knowledge revealing a sweeping array of connections between public health and green infrastructure – but not until now have the links between them been brought together in one comprehensive book. Green Infrastructure and Public Health provides an overview of current research and theories of the ecological relationships and mechanisms by which the environment influences human health and health behaviour. Covering a broad spectrum of contemporary understanding, Coutts outlines: public health models that explicitly promote the importance of the environment to health ways in which the quality of the landscape is tied to health challenges of maintaining viable landscapes amidst a rapidly changing global environment This book presents the case for fundamental human dependence on the natural environment and creates a bridge between contemporary science on the structure and form of a healthy landscape and the myriad ways that a healthy landscape supports healthy human beings. It presents ideal reading for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and health studies.

Author : Robert C. Brears
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031413933

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Blue and Green Cities by Robert C. Brears Pdf

A completely revised and updated new edition of this successful book focused on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. Since the first edition published, nature-based solutions in general and blue-green infrastructure, in particular, have become a more recognised solution to various societal challenges, including mitigating climatic extremes in cities while restoring the natural environment and enhancing biodiversity. This new edition provides updated research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of BGI in managing water resources sustainably. In particular, the book contains case studies that illustrate how cities of differing climates, lifestyles and income levels have implemented policy innovations that promote the application of BGI in managing water, wastewater and stormwater sustainably to enhance resilience to climate change and reduce environmental degradation. The seven case studies are leading cities that have implemented various fiscal and non-fiscal policy tools to encourage the implementation of BGI on both public and private property to reduce stormwater runoff volumes, enhance the health of waterways, enhance resilience to climate change and meet regulatory requirements.

Author : Shalini Dhyani,Mrittika Basu,Harini Santhanam,Rajarshi Dasgupta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811671289

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Blue-Green Infrastructure Across Asian Countries by Shalini Dhyani,Mrittika Basu,Harini Santhanam,Rajarshi Dasgupta Pdf

This edited book discusses Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) from conception to implementation in building resilience and urban sustainability. The book emphasizes on infrastructures, institutions, and perceptions as three main pillars of implementing and managing successful BGI, with a special focus on Asia. The book highlights concepts as well as field-based experiences from different parts of Asia by experts, with a special focus on advances and opportunities in advancing BGI, challenges and constraints, followed by case studies on BGI mainstreaming. It addresses sustainable water management, multiscale environmental design, environmental risk assessment, and finally understanding policy implications and concerns for BGI mainstreaming in growing urban sprawls of the region. There has been growing global momentum and recognition of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) as a multifunctional Nature-based Solution (NbS) with multiple co-benefits. There is strong evidence from many urban centres of Europe, USA, China, and South Africa demonstrating that mainstreaming BGI can help in addressing growing vulnerability of urban areas by ensuring safety, resilience, and sustainability for urban residents in the warming world. This book is a timely contribution for researchers, students, scholars, urban planners, consultants, and policy makers in the fields of environment, resilience, urban planning, climate adaptation, and sustainability science.

Author : Christopher Coutts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317298564

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Green Infrastructure and Public Health by Christopher Coutts Pdf

There is a growing body of knowledge revealing a sweeping array of connections between public health and green infrastructure – but not until now have the links between them been brought together in one comprehensive book. Green Infrastructure and Public Health provides an overview of current research and theories of the ecological relationships and mechanisms by which the environment influences human health and health behaviour. Covering a broad spectrum of contemporary understanding, Coutts outlines: public health models that explicitly promote the importance of the environment to health ways in which the quality of the landscape is tied to health challenges of maintaining viable landscapes amidst a rapidly changing global environment This book presents the case for fundamental human dependence on the natural environment and creates a bridge between contemporary science on the structure and form of a healthy landscape and the myriad ways that a healthy landscape supports healthy human beings. It presents ideal reading for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, urban design, planning, and health studies.