Enhancing sustainable infrastructure with the aid of the Green Infrastructure Toolkit

To address changing climate patterns, cities in the US are expanding sustainable transportation options and implementing green infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure projects help communities adapt, decrease CO2 emissions, promote community health, and provide economic benefits. These projects can also have unintended consequences, increasing gentrification and displacement of vulnerable communities through increased property values (i.e., green gentrification). The City of Madison maintains an extensive system of bike trails and continues to expand community access, with three projects recently completed or in development. We recommend that the City of Madison alter policy to use tax-increment financing or community land trusts as a preventative measure to mitigate green gentrification of nearby areas for all current and future bike path construction projects.

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Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities: Brazil 2019

10.18235/0002638 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Kristiane Davidson ◽

Nabilla Gunawan ◽

Julia Ambrosano ◽

Leisa Souza

Keyword(s):

Green Infrastructure ◽

Infrastructure Investment ◽

Low Carbon ◽

Sustainable Infrastructure ◽

Green Finance ◽

Key Sectors ◽

Investment Opportunities ◽

Sustainable Finance ◽

Green Investment ◽

Funding Gap

Green investment opportunities can help to close the country's infrastructure funding gap and also meet its climate commitments. The Green Infrastructure Investment Opportunities - Brazil 2019 was developed to facilitate the engagement between project owners and developers, and investors. The report analyses the development of the sustainable finance market in Brazil, and the investment opportunities in green infrastructure across four key sectors: low carbon transport, renewable energy, sustainable water management, and sustainable waste management for energy generation. Moreover, it also lists alternatives for unlocking the country's potential in sustainable infrastructure investment as well as identifying a range of actual projects that are in the pipeline for development and which could potentially access green finance.

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Green Infrastructure Entities- A Study of Indian and International Cities

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1104643/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vishwa Munir Shah ◽

Shweta Suhane ◽

Devanshi Gajjar

Keyword(s):

Green Infrastructure ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Sustainable Infrastructure ◽

Environmental Practices ◽

Case Examples ◽

The World ◽

Political Boundaries ◽

The Impact ◽

Indian Cities

Abstract Cities are places for humans and countless other species. With increasing city limits, urbanization has meddled with the life of several organisms; creating an unhealthy balance. A green city is planned by scrutiny of the impact of development on the environment and mankind. This not only assures a better future but also connects people to nature. This paper highlights approaches towards the creation of liveable cities, segregated into three categories – Greens, Water, and Sustainability. Further divisions of these categories are done based on green infrastructure techniques prevalent across the globe today. The purpose is to refurbish the underdeveloped regions into smart cities through sustainable infrastructure; which will provide a good quality of life, better environmental impact, etc. The paper aims to analyze and compare case examples for each parameter through the medium of national (Indian) and international case studies. The comparison stresses the fact that India, as a developing nation, can implement these methods in its cities. The paper also deduces that there are cases where Indian cities can be an inspiration to the world. Degeneration of nature knows no political boundaries. Thus, every country has a legitimate stake in environmental practices and must pledge to create greener cities.

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Economic valuation of urban green infrastructure. Principles and evidence

ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ◽

10.3280/efe2018-002004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 63-84

Author(s):

Maria Beatrice Andreucci

Keyword(s):

Green Infrastructure ◽

Economic Valuation ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Infrastructure

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Smart Green Infrastructure in Tiger Range Countries

10.1596/27751 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Juan D. Quintero ◽

Roberto Roca ◽

Alexis Morgan ◽

Aradhna Mathur ◽

Xiaoxin Shi

Keyword(s):

Green Infrastructure

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Industrial zones is the place where the green city originates

National Interests Priorities and Security ◽

10.24891/ni.16.10.1857 ◽

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.

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

Environmental Values ◽

10.3197/096327119x15678473650901 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 67-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

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.

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