Selecting Multi-Functional Green Infrastructure to Enhance Resilience Against Urban Floods

2021 ◽  
pp. 429-441
Author(s):  
A. Alves ◽  
A. Sanchez ◽  
B. Gersonius ◽  
Z. Vojinovic
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Floods

scholarly journals Governance Assessment of the Flood’s Infrastructure Policy in San Pedro Cholula, Mexico: Potential for a Leapfrog to Water Sensitive

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 7144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Casiano Flores ◽  
Joep Crompvoets ◽  
Maria Eugenia Ibarraran Viniegra ◽  
Megan Farrelly
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Urban Floods ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
San Pedro

Climate change together with population growth and land-use change have increased the risk of urban floods. Urban floods cause severe damages to cities and their inhabitants, and they are expected to increase over time. Consequently, urban adaptation is required to shift from traditional infrastructure (grey) to multifunctional infrastructure (blue-green) for improved flood management. Until recently, studies on the role and adoption of blue-green infrastructure have centered around large cities in developed countries, including Melbourne and Rotterdam, among others. Meanwhile, middle-sized cities in developing countries have received less attention. According to the Urban Water Management Transition Framework (UWMTF), cities in developing countries can learn from the experiences of developed cities and leapfrog to more ‘water sensitive’ practices. Although leapfrogging is context-dependent, our understanding of factors that support leapfrogging remains embryonic. This paper contributes to the scholarly understanding of the governance factors that support and limit leapfrogging. By applying the Governance Assessment Tool through semi-structured interviews and reviewing secondary data, this research assessed the implementation of flood protection infrastructure in San Pedro Cholula, a middle size city of Mexico. This work found the most supportive quality for delivering multifunctional infrastructure, was the extent of the governance system. The governance support extent was rated as moderate-low considering the platform for change is limited to government actors, which has further reinforced traditional approaches to infrastructure. In addition, the necessary governance features of coherence, flexibility and intensity were assessed as constraining change, with flexibility being the least supportive governance factor and ultimately hindering social actors’ participation and innovation. While the contemporary governance arrangements of San Pedro Cholula are not yet conducive to promoting a leapfrog in the delivery of urban flood infrastructure, the analysis has pointed to three catalytic factors to underpin a leapfrogging situation: trans-disciplinary science; cross-sector partnerships; and, innovation experiments.

Smart Green Infrastructure in Tiger Range Countries

10.1596/27751 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan D. Quintero ◽  
Roberto Roca ◽  
Alexis Morgan ◽  
Aradhna Mathur ◽  
Xiaoxin Shi
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure

Industrial zones is the place where the green city originates

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1857-1880
Author(s):  
N.N. Krupina
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Efficient Operation ◽  
Fiscal Incentives ◽  
Industrial Zones

Subject. The article updates the scientific view of the environmental protection greening and the special land use regime as a special city planning means of passive sanitary protection of people from the adverse aerial and technological impact and the recovery of the environment we live in. Objectives. I identify the specifics of designing and efficient operation of environmental protection greening as an inseparable part of the urban ecosystem. The article justifies the technique for strategic positioning of respective infrastructure projects in order to ensure the protective effect. Methods. The study relies upon general methods of analysis, systematization of existing viewpoints and published findings, graphic and logic analysis, matrix-based tools to choose an administrative strategy. Results. I analyzed the air-holding capacity of economic activity in regions and the outcome of air quality monitoring as a risk factor for public health. The article pinpoints operational difficulties in the environmental protection greening facilities and strategic approaches to addressing the issues in order to improve the environmental security of industrial zones. I determine new aspects of public relations and groups of criteria to assess the effectiveness of green infrastructure projects. The article provides the rationale for fiscal incentives for investors and public-private partnership of stakeholders. Conclusions and Relevance. Considering national projects, such as Ecology, Demography, Convenient Urban Environment, I emphasize the relevance of recovering and rehabilitating obsolete environmental protection greening facilities situated in industrial zones of industrially developed cities. Green projects should indeed comply with a set of progressive results of fundamental studies carried in various scientific areas. There should be fiscal incentives in terms of taxes and depreciation on special assets as the basis for the private-municipal partnership in green assets management in order to enhance the environmental security of industrial zones.

Urban Greening and Human-Wildlife Relations in Philadelphia: From Animal Control to Multispecies Coexistence?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hunold
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Runoff ◽  
Urban Wildlife ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Animal Control

City-scale urban greening is expanding wildlife habitat in previously less hospitable urban areas. Does this transformation also prompt a reckoning with the longstanding idea that cities are places intended to satisfy primarily human needs? I pose this question in the context of one of North America's most ambitious green infrastructure programmes to manage urban runoff: Philadelphia's Green City, Clean Waters. Given that the city's green infrastructure plans have little to say about wildlife, I investigate how wild animals fit into urban greening professionals' conceptions of the urban. I argue that practitioners relate to urban wildlife via three distinctive frames: 1) animal control, 2) public health and 3) biodiversity, and explore the implications of each for peaceful human-wildlife coexistence in 'greened' cities.

Blueprint Columbus Green Infrastructure Workforce Development Training Program: Working Together, Working in Neighborhoods

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (13) ◽  
pp. 2618-2625
Author(s):  
Cynthia Jacobsen ◽  
Keena Smith ◽  
Debra Knapke ◽  
Ramona Swayne ◽  
John Hazlett
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Working Together

Blue Green Infrastructure and Flood Resiliency: A Copenhagen Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (8) ◽  
pp. 5188-5199
Author(s):  
Henrik Sønderup ◽  
Steve Roy
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure

The Anticipated Co-Benefits of Green Infrastructure: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s Co-Benefits Model, Findings and Conclusions

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (8) ◽  
pp. 3045-3050
Author(s):  
Lita Laven ◽  
Rachel Webb ◽  
Julie Stein ◽  
Samantha La Hee ◽  
Christopher Behr
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure
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