Journal articles: 'Green and blue infrastructure'

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Ile, Una, and Aija Ziemelniece. "Green-blue Infrastructure in Multi-storey Residential Area." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 603 (September 18, 2019): 022034. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/603/2/022034.

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Sønderup, Henrik, and Steve Roy. "Blue Green Infrastructure and Flood Resiliency: A Copenhagen Perspective." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2016, no. 8 (January 1, 2016): 5188–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864716819713736.

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Rozos, E., C. Makropoulos, and Č. Maksimović. "Rethinking urban areas: an example of an integrated blue-green approach." Water Supply 13, no. 6 (September 12, 2013): 1534–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2013.140.

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The provision of high quality urban water services, the assets of which are often conceptualised as ‘blue infrastructure’, is essential for public health and quality of life in the cities. On the other hand, parks, recreation grounds, gardens, green roofs and in general ‘green infrastructure’, provide a range of (urban) ecosystem services (including quality of life and aesthetics) and could also be thought of as inter alia contributors to the mitigation of floods, droughts, noise, air pollution and urban heat island (UHI) effects, improvement of biodiversity, amenity values and human health. Currently, these ‘blue’ and ‘green’ assets/infrastructure are planned to operate as two separate systems despite the obvious interactions between them (for example, low runoff coefficient of green areas resulting in reduction of stormwater flows, and irrigation of green areas by potable water in increasing pressure on water supply systems). This study explores the prospects of a more integrated ‘blue-green’ approach – tested at the scale of a household. Specifically, UWOT (the Urban Water Optioneering Tool) was extended and used to assess the potential benefits of a scheme that employed locally treated greywater along with harvested rainwater for irrigating a green roof. The results of the simulations indicated that the blue-green approach combined the benefits of both ‘green’ and ‘blue’ technologies/services and at the same time minimised the disadvantages of each when installed separately.

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O'Donnell, Emily, Colin Thorne, Sangaralingam Ahilan, Scott Arthur, Stephen Birkinshaw, David Butler, David Dawson, et al. "The blue-green path to urban flood resilience." Blue-Green Systems 2, no. 1 (December 2, 2019): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2019.199.

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Abstract Achieving urban flood resilience at local, regional and national levels requires a transformative change in planning, design and implementation of urban water systems. Flood risk, wastewater and stormwater management should be re-envisaged and transformed to: ensure satisfactory service delivery under flood, normal and drought conditions, and enhance and extend the useful lives of ageing grey assets by supplementing them with multi-functional Blue-Green infrastructure. The aim of the multidisciplinary Urban Flood Resilience (UFR) research project, which launched in 2016 and comprises academics from nine UK institutions, is to investigate how transformative change may be possible through a whole systems approach. UFR research outputs to date are summarised under three themes. Theme 1 investigates how Blue-Green and Grey (BG + G) systems can be co-optimised to offer maximum flood risk reduction, continuous service delivery and multiple co-benefits. Theme 2 investigates the resource capacity of urban stormwater and evaluates the potential for interoperability. Theme 3 focuses on the interfaces between planners, developers, engineers and beneficiary communities and investigates citizens’ interactions with BG + G infrastructure. Focussing on retrofit and new build case studies, UFR research demonstrates how urban flood resilience may be achieved through changes in planning practice and policy to enable widespread uptake of BG + G infrastructure.

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Ncube, Sikhululekile, and Scott Arthur. "Influence of Blue-Green and Grey Infrastructure Combinations on Natural and Human-Derived Capital in Urban Drainage Planning." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (February 27, 2021): 2571. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052571.

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The natural capital and ecosystem services concepts describe the multiple benefits people get from nature. Urbanisation has been identified as one of the key factors influencing the decline of natural capital globally. Urbanisation has also been associated with a recent increase in urban flooding incidents in most cities globally. While the understanding of blue-green infrastructure in urban drainage is well established, little is said about its influence on natural capital. This study utilises the Natural Capital Planning Tool, Benefits Evaluation of Sustainable Drainage Systems tool and expert stakeholder interviews to assess the influence of blue-green and grey infrastructure as adaptation pathways in urban drainage, on natural capital and ecosystem services, and to determine how these contribute to other forms of human-derived capital. Key findings show that blue-green options can enhance natural capital and ecosystem services such as amenity value while also contributing to social and human capital. Although the assessed blue-green options contribute to regulating ecosystem services such as floods regulation, their most significant contribution is in cultural ecosystem services, especially amenity value. It is concluded that incorporating blue-green infrastructure in urban drainage adaptive approaches can mitigate natural capital losses and contribute to other forms of capital crucial for human well-being.

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Stovin, Virginia, and Richard Ashley. "SuDS/BMPs/WSUD/SCMs: convergence to a blue-green infrastructure." Urban Water Journal 16, no. 6 (July 3, 2019): 403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1573062x.2019.1685229.

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Radinja, Matej, Nataša Atanasova, and Alma Zavodnik Lamovšek. "The water-management aspect of blue-green infrastructure in cities." Urbani izziv 32, no. 1 (2021): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2021-32-01-003.

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Din Dar, Mehraj U., Aamir Ishaq Shah, Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, Rohitashw Kumar, Donald Huisingh, and Rajbir Kaur. "Blue Green infrastructure as a tool for sustainable urban development." Journal of Cleaner Production 318 (October 2021): 128474. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128474.

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Andoh, Robert Y. G. "Blue Infrastructure: The Confluence between Green and Grey Infrastructure in Integrated Urban Water Management." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2012, no. 4 (January 1, 2012): 717–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864712811700057.

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Sowińska-Świerkosz, Barbara, Malwina Michalik-Śnieżek, and Alicja Bieske-Matejak. "Can Allotment Gardens (AGs) Be Considered an Example of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) Based on the Use of Historical Green Infrastructure?" Sustainability 13, no. 2 (January 15, 2021): 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020835.

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The term nature-based solutions (NBSs) is understood as a multidisciplinary umbrella concept that includes aspects such as green/blue infrastructure and urban gardens and forests. However, the important question here is what features of ecosystem-based approaches are essential for them to be considered nature-based? This study aims to answer this question by analysing the potential of allotment gardens (AGs) to be considered as NBSs. To do so, the possibilities and obstacles regarding a Polish case study were analysed based on the following six research questions: (1) How do AGs use blue and green infrastructure? (2) What problem(s) do AGs solve today? (3) What kind of benefits do AGs provide? (4) Do AGs possess implementation and management capabilities? (5) Can AGs be treated as economically efficient? (6) What are the advantages of AGs versus other possible solution(s)? With regards to obstacles, the study has identified: institutional barriers, irregular distribution of benefits, and deficiencies in economic efficiency. Nevertheless, AGs together with other historical urban green/blue infrastructure may be regarded as a kind of unsophisticated NBS, the effectiveness of which is limited. These solutions may be created as independent structures or (historical) green/blue infrastructure may be enlarged, fitted out, linked, and improved to implement NBS projects.

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Ashley, Richard, Berry Gersonius, Christopher Digman, Bruce Horton, Brian Smith, and Paul Shaffer. "Including uncertainty in valuing blue and green infrastructure for stormwater management." Ecosystem Services 33 (October 2018): 237–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.08.011.

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Andreucci, Maria Beatrice, Alessio Russo, and Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo. "Designing Urban Green Blue Infrastructure for Mental Health and Elderly Wellbeing." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 15, 2019): 6425. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226425.

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The main objective of this essay is to illustrate the state-of-the-art on ‘mental health-sensitive’ open space design in the built environment. Urban Green Blue Infrastructure can contribute to urbanites’ mental health and wellbeing as well as healthy aging, while providing co-benefits balancing the negative impacts of climate change, through the provision of integrated ecosystem services. There are a number of ways that exposure to and affiliation with Nature have shown to support mental health, but we are still missing the necessary evidence of the actual benefits achieved, as well as the key performance indicators and metrics to monitor and adapt our open space to the growing urban challenges. After introducing the key concepts of degenerative mental disorders as they are growing in the urban environment, and the emerging green blue infrastructure design approach, the authors present international case studies describing how evidence-based design and Nature-based Solutions have been found to be beneficial, especially to those diagnosed with mental disorders. Subsequently, in a comparative critical analysis, the authors look closer at a number of design solutions capable, at different scales, to support healthy aging through exposure to, and affiliation with, biodiversity.

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Ferreira, José C., Renato Monteiro, and Vasco R. Silva. "Planning a Green Infrastructure Network from Theory to Practice: The Case Study of Setúbal, Portugal." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (July 28, 2021): 8432. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158432.

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Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas that are designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. It incorporates green and blue spaces and other physical features in terrestrial and marine areas. Despite the increase of green infrastructure planning in several regions of the world, such as Europe and North America, there is still a complexity and diversity associated with the concept of green infrastructure that influences the variance in approaches of green infrastructure planning. This research proposed a multi-criteria method that was organized in four steps for designing a green infrastructure for the municipality of Setúbal (Portugal) that efficiently integrated the ecological and social components in the planning and policymaking processes, as well as green infrastructure planning principles. The results show a green infrastructure that comprised around 91% of the territory of the case study, organized into two systems: the fundamental green infrastructure, which was related to the areas whose ecological interests were more favorable, and the urban green infrastructure, which aimed to enhance and intensify ecological processes in built-up areas. This approach focused on the protection of ecological functions, the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage, and the prevention of risks at a local level; it also followed several green infrastructure planning principles, namely, connectivity, multifunctionality, diversity, integration, and applicability.

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Monteiro, Renato, José C. Ferreira, and Paula Antunes. "Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review." Land 9, no. 12 (December 16, 2020): 525. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9120525.

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Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achievement of sustainable, resilient, inclusive and competitive urban areas. Despite recent developments, there is still no consensus among researchers and practitioners regarding the concept of green infrastructure as well as its implementation approaches, which makes it often difficult for urban planners and other professionals in the field to develop a robust green infrastructure in some parts of the world. To address this issue, an integrative literature review was conducted to identify which green infrastructure planning principles should be acknowledged in spatial planning practices to promote sustainability and resilience. As a result of this literature review, the most common eight green infrastructure planning principles were selected—connectivity, multifunctionality, applicability, integration, diversity, multiscale, governance, and continuity. These principles intend to promote and simplify the development and use of green infrastructure by different academic and implementation organizations and provide a more defined model for sustainable landscape management in order to help practitioners and decision makers during the conceptualization and planning of green infrastructure.

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Csizmadia, D., K. Szilágyi, P. I. Balogh, and I. Säumel. "More than green: implementation of multifunctional blue-green infrastructure in residential areas of European cities." Acta Horticulturae, no. 1189 (December 2017): 553–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.2017.1189.110.

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Abdullah, Jamalunlaili, Raziah Ahmad, and Muhammad Hafiz Zainal. "The Blue-Green Urban Living Labs of Kuala Lumpur." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 5, no. 13 (March 24, 2020): 359–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2072.

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The extraordinary societal challenges demand cities to be innovative and adaptable to the needs of urban citizens. In the Malaysian context, the Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) has not been well incorporated into the ULLs. This paper seeks to address this gap by exploring the potential of the Blue-Green Urban Living Labs (BGULLs) at the Sungai Bunus catchment area. Using Google Form, survey questionnaire is conducted among professionals and the public. Findings of this unprecedented study suggest the BGULLs offer beyond beautification works, and it is voicing the virtual idea of the BGULLs into a real setting that reflects the public-private-citizen partnerships.Keywords: Urban living labs; Blue-Green Infrastructure; Innovation; societal challengeseISSN: 2398-4287 © 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2072

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Ahmed, Sanjana, Mahbubur Meenar, and Ashraful Alam. "Designing a Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) Network: Toward Water-Sensitive Urban Growth Planning in Dhaka, Bangladesh." Land 8, no. 9 (September 16, 2019): 138. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8090138.

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In a warming world, urban environmental stresses are exacerbated by population-increase-induced development of grey infrastructure that usually leaves minimal scope for blue (and green) elements and processes, potentially resulting in mismanagement of stormwater and flooding issues. This paper explores how urban growth planning in the megacity of Dhaka, Bangladesh can be guided by a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) network that combines blue, green, and grey elements together to provide a multifunctional urban form. We take a three-step approach: First, we analyze the existing spatial morphology to understand potential locations of development and challenges, as well as the types of solutions necessary for water management in different typologies of urban densities. Next, we analyze existing and potential blue and green network locations. Finally, we propose the structural framework for a BGI network at both macro and micro scales. The proposed network takes different forms at different scales and locations and offers different types of flood control and stormwater management options. These can provide directions on Dhaka’s future urban consolidation and expansion with a balance of man-made and natural elements and enable environmental, social, spatial, financial, and governance benefits. The paper concludes with some practical implications and challenges for implementing BGI in Dhaka.

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Wescoat Jr., James L., and Smita Rawoot. "Blue-green urban infrastructure in Boston and Bombay (Mumbai): a macro-historical geographic comparison." ZARCH, no. 15 (January 27, 2021): 36–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154857.

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This study offers a macro-historical geographic comparison of blue-green urban infrastructure in the coastal cities of Boston, USA and Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. After introducing the aims and methods of comparative historical geography, we focus on the insights that these two cases offer. Their stories begin with ancient coastal fishing settlements, followed by early processes of urbanization and fortification in the 17th century. By the late-18th century Anglo-American merchants in Boston were trading with Parsi merchants in Bombay, at a time when Bostonians had little more to sell than ice in exchange for India’s fine textiles. From the early-19th century onwards, the two maritime cities undertook surprisingly parallel processes of land reclamation and water development. Boston commissioned blue-green infrastructure proposals at the urban scale, from Frederick Law Olmsted’s Back Bay Fens to Charles Eliot’s Metropolitan Park District Plan—innovations that offer more than a century of lessons in environmental performance and resilience. The two cities developed parallel “Esplanade,” “Back Bay,” and “Reclamation” projects. None of these projects anticipated the magnitude of 20th century land, water, and infrastructure change. Both cities have begun to address the increasing risks of urban flooding, sea level rise, and population displacement, but they need bolder metropolitan visions of blue-green urban infrastructure to address emerging climate change and water hazards.

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Savytska, O. S., T. S. Rumilec, and V. V. Kurian. "ARCHITECTURAL URBAN PLANNING AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC PREREQUISITES FOR THE FORMATION OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE." Regional problems of architecture and urban planning, no. 14 (December 29, 2020): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.31650/2707-403x-2020-14-31-40.

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In the article the relevance of this research is due to overcoming the complex of social, environmental and economic problems in urban planning related to environmental improvement, improvement, greening of cities and settlements. Being one of the main elements of urban planning, "green spaces" form a favorable ecological environment. They also help to combat the effect of "thermal islands" by participating in the process of evaporation of moisture; reduce storm water runoff; improve air quality by absorbing atmospheric pollution. Improvement of cities is one of the priority tasks of forming a comfortable urban environment. It includes: improvement of the ecological situation in cities (related to the improvement of the landscaping system, which means scientifically grounded spatial arrangement of all components of urban landscaping according to urban areas) soil, climatic and other factors in order to achieve optimal ecological, sanitary and sanitary and sanitary effects. In the foreign practice of urban planning use the concept of "green infrastructure" ("Green infrastructure") or blue-green infrastructure ("Blue - green infrastructure"), which focuses on the environmental importance of the territory. Which considers the whole spectrum of landscape changes and serves as a basis for the formation and development of a favorable state in cities. The main reason for the interest in green infrastructure in the world is the desire to make the city a more conducive place to live, as well as to climate change. Reducing the negative impact on the environment is the key to the socio-economic development of the country. The purpose of this work is to develop recommendations for the design of green infrastructure. Analysis of existing experience in designing and implementing green infrastructure in an urbanized environment, identifying trends in the further development of their architectural and urban planning structure. The object of the study is the green infrastructure of major cities in the world, including its architectural and urban planning and spatial solutions in the city structure. The article presents typical landscaping schemes and their classification, as well as methods of using green spaces to improve the environmental, social and aesthetic status of cities.

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Mulligan, Joe, Vera Bukachi, Jack Campbell Clause, Rosie Jewell, Franklin Kirimi, and Chelina Odbert. "Hybrid infrastructures, hybrid governance: New evidence from Nairobi (Kenya) on green-blue-grey infrastructure in informal settlements." Anthropocene 29 (March 2020): 100227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100227.

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Andersson, Erik, Johannes Langemeyer, Sara Borgström, Timon McPhearson, Dagmar Haase, Jakub Kronenberg, David N. Barton, et al. "Enabling Green and Blue Infrastructure to Improve Contributions to Human Well-Being and Equity in Urban Systems." BioScience 69, no. 7 (June 26, 2019): 566–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz058.

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AbstractThe circumstances under which different ecosystem service benefits can be realized differ. The benefits tend to be coproduced and to be enabled by multiple interacting social, ecological, and technological factors, which is particularly evident in cities. As many cities are undergoing rapid change, these factors need to be better understood and accounted for, especially for those most in need of benefits. We propose a framework of three systemic filters that affect the flow of ecosystem service benefits: the interactions among green, blue, and built infrastructures; the regulatory power and governance of institutions; and people's individual and shared perceptions and values. We argue that more fully connecting green and blue infrastructure to its urban systems context and highlighting dynamic interactions among the three filters are key to understanding how and why ecosystem services have variable distribution, continuing inequities in who benefits, and the long-term resilience of the flows of benefits.

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Krivtsov, V., S. Arthur, J. Buckman, A. Kraiphet, T. Needham, Wanying Gu, Prasujya Gogoi, and C. Thorne. "Characterisation of suspended and sedimented particulate matter in blue-green infrastructure ponds." Blue-Green Systems 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 214–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/bgs.2020.102.

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Abstract Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) ponds have an important function of alleviating flood risk and provide water quality improvements among other multiple benefits. Characterisation of bottom sediments and suspended particulate matter (SPM) is understudied, but is indispensable for assessing the ponds' functioning because of their role in biogeochemical cycling and pollutant adsorption. Here we report on the analysis of particle sizes and chemistry from multiple locations. The results have shown that SPM in these ponds includes particles of both biological and abiotic origin, and the in situ produced organic matter constitutes a major part of SPM. The relevance of biological processes is often overlooked, but a combination of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observations and chemical analysis highlights its primary importance for characterisation of the particulate matter. A considerable proportion of both suspended and sedimented particulates is smaller than 100 microns. There is normally a large fraction of small silt-sized particles, and often a considerable proportion of very fine particles (clay-size). Although for some spectra unimodal distribution has been observed, in many cases the revealed particle size distribution (PSD) was bimodal, and in some instances more than two modes were revealed. A complex PSD would be expected to result from a combination of simple unimodal distributions. Hence the multimodality observed may have reflected contributions from different sources, both abiotic and biological. Furthermore, many smaller particles appear to be interconnected by detrital matter. Among chemical elements routinely detected within the SPM in significant concentrations were Si, Al, Ca, Mg, Fe, K, Mn, P, Cl and S. In a number of cases, however, there were less expected elements such as Ti, Y, Mo, Cr and even Au; these may have reflected the effect of car park and road runoff and/or industrial pollution. Most of these elements (except Mo and Au) and up to 30 others were also routinely detected in sediment samples. Such pollutants as Co, Cu, Ni, Zn and As were detected in bottom sediments of all ponds. There were a number of correlations between pollutants in sediments and the particle's median diameter. However, aggregation leads to large low density flocks and masks correlation of chemicals with SPM particle size. Statistical associations among the elements aided the understanding of their sources and pathways, as well as the underlying biological and abiotic processes. Specifically, our analysis implicated contributions from such sources as allochthonous and autochthonous detritus, roadside and industrial pollution, biologically induced precipitation, and discarded electronics. Elevated levels of rare earth elements (REE) and other trace elements open a possibility of their recovery from the sediments, which should be considered among the multiple benefits of BGI.

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Williams, J. B., R. Jose, C. Moobela, D. J. Hutchinson, R. Wise, and M. Gaterell. "Residents’ perceptions of sustainable drainage systems as highly functional blue green infrastructure." Landscape and Urban Planning 190 (October 2019): 103610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103610.

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Edwards, P. E. T., A. E. Sutton-Grier, and G. E. Coyle. "Investing in nature: Restoring coastal habitat blue infrastructure and green job creation." Marine Policy 38 (March 2013): 65–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.05.020.

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O’Donnell, E. C., J. E. Lamond, and C. R. Thorne. "Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure: a Newcastle case study." Urban Water Journal 14, no. 9 (February 7, 2017): 964–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1573062x.2017.1279190.

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Drosou, Nafsika, Robby Soetanto, Ferry Hermawan, Ksenia Chmutina, Lee Bosher, and Jati Utomo Dwi Hatmoko. "Key Factors Influencing Wider Adoption of Blue–Green Infrastructure in Developing Cities." Water 11, no. 6 (June 13, 2019): 1234. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11061234.

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Numerous fast-growing coastal cities in the Global South are exposed to coastal, fluvial and pluvial floods, as a consequence of decades-long rapid urbanisation and weak enforcement of planning regulations. Integrating Blue–Green Infrastructure (BGI) concepts into the development of the urban landscape has the potential to increase flood resilience and offer broader environmental benefits. BGI is an innovative approach that combines water management and green infrastructure to maintain natural water cycles and enhance environmental and urban renewal. This paper identifies socio-economic, cultural and political challenges influencing BGI adoption in Semarang city in Indonesia. Data was collected from residents of three communities through interviews (n=30), questionnaires (n=180) and focus groups with policymakers and community representatives. The combined quantitative and qualitative data provide an understanding of the specific socio-economic, cultural and political issues at play and reveal flood experience as well as perceptions of community members regarding flood management. Challenges are presented from the point of view of residents and local policymakers and are based on a framework for facilitating local BGI adoption, setting the principles of “inclusive”, “appropriate” and “proactive” as pre-conditions for enhancing community resilience to flooding.

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Sörensen, J., and T. Emilsson. "Evaluating Flood Risk Reduction by Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure Using Insurance Data." Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 145, no. 2 (February 2019): 04018099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001037.

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Dai, Xin, Lunche Wang, Minghui Tao, Chunbo Huang, Jia Sun, and Shaoqiang Wang. "Assessing the ecological balance between supply and demand of blue-green infrastructure." Journal of Environmental Management 288 (June 2021): 112454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112454.

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O’Donnell, Emily, Noelwah Netusil, Faith Chan, Nanco Dolman, and Simon Gosling. "International Perceptions of Urban Blue-Green Infrastructure: A Comparison across Four Cities." Water 13, no. 4 (February 20, 2021): 544. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13040544.

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Blue-Green infrastructure (BGI) is recognised internationally as an approach for managing urban water challenges while enhancing society and the environment through the provision of multiple co-benefits. This research employed an online survey to investigate the perceptions of BGI held by professional stakeholders in four cities with established BGI programs: Newcastle (UK), Ningbo (China), Portland (Oregon USA), and Rotterdam (The Netherlands) (64 respondents). The results show that challenges associated with having too much water (e.g., pluvial and fluvial flood risk, water quality deterioration) are driving urban water management agendas. Perceptions of governance drivers for BGI implementation, BGI leaders, and strategies for improving BGI uptake, are markedly different in the four cities reflecting the varied local, regional and national responsibilities for BGI implementation. In addition to managing urban water, BGI is universally valued for its positive impact on residents’ quality of life; however, a transformative change in policy and practice towards truly multifunctional infrastructure is needed to optimise the delivery of multiple BGI benefits to address each city’s priorities and strategic objectives. Changes needed to improve BGI uptake, e.g., increasing the awareness of policy-makers to multifunctional BGI, has international relevance for other cities on their journeys to sustainable blue-green futures.

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Sörensen, J., A. S. Persson, and J. Alkan Olsson. "A data management framework for strategic urban planning using blue-green infrastructure." Journal of Environmental Management 299 (December 2021): 113658. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113658.

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Rizzo, Biancamaria. "Policy-Making in Metropolitan Areas: The Aniene River as a Green Infrastructure between Roma and Tivoli." International Studies. Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal 19, no. 1 (September 15, 2017): 29–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ipcj-2017-0003.

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The European policies acknowledge greenways and “Green Infrastructure” as strategically planned and delivered networks comprising the broadest range of green spaces and other environmental features. The Aniene River, linking the eastern suburbs of Rome to the City of Tivoli, has been envisaged in a multi-level approach as a Green-Blue Infrastructure able to hinder land use fragmentation and provide new continuity to remainders of open space. In turn, landscape is taken into account as a biodiversity reservoir, the scenery of outstanding cultural heritage and the relevant backdrop of ordinary life.

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Mottaghi, Misagh, Mattias Kärrholm, and Catharina Sternudd. "Blue-Green Solutions and Everyday Ethicalities: Affordances and Matters of Concern in Augustenborg, Malmö." Urban Planning 5, no. 4 (November 12, 2020): 132–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i4.3286.

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This article aims to understand how the introduction of blue-green solutions affects ethical concerns and expectations of an urban environment. Blue-green solutions are complementary technical solutions, introduced into urban water management, in order to deal with the impact of urbanisation and climate change. These kinds of solutions establish new affordances that have an impact on everyday life in the urban environment. This article describes how blue-green solutions become part of urban settings and how they influence the inhabitant’s perceptions, desires and matters of care concerning these settings. The article examines the interplay between blue-green technologies and the social, material and cultural context in the Augustenborg district in Malmö, Sweden. The study is based on the analysis of free-text answers to a questionnaire aimed to collect information about the interaction between blue-green solutions and everyday life in public spaces. By exploring the inhabitants’ point of view, the article then seeks to recognise the meanings and thoughts entangled with place concerning different types of blue-green solutions. We summarise the main concerns raised by the inhabitants and discuss how the implementation of blue-green solutions relates to the transformation of everyday ethicalities and matters of concern relating to the neighbourhood. We conclude that blue-green infrastructure seems to come with a new kind of sensitivity, as well as with an intensification of concerns, in an existing urban environment. This has important social repercussions, which also makes it important to study the social role and implications of blue-green technologies further.

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Zhou, Conghui, and Yun Wu. "A Planning Support Tool for Layout Integral Optimization of Urban Blue–Green Infrastructure." Sustainability 12, no. 4 (February 21, 2020): 1613. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12041613.

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Urban blue infrastructure (UBI) and urban green infrastructure (UGI) can be seen as an integrated system in which services and spatial layouts complement each other. However, given its complexity, it is difficult to integrate and optimize the layout of urban blue and green infrastructure (UBGI) in the built environment. This study develops a planning support tool for the layout integral optimization (PSTLIO) of UBGI. Using Hekou City in China as a case study, service demands and the supply of suitable land for UBGI development are assessed and mapped on geographic information system (GIS). The potential areas for UBGI development are delineated after mapping assessments of service demand and land supply and suitability. Following discussions on the exact means for PSTLIO to support the layout optimization of UBGI, a PSTLIO-based solution is developed to structure the UBGI link network and hub system, define the functions and service patterns of single UBGI components, and provide guidance for determining the scale of UBGI components. The results show that PSTLIO is able to provide a quantifiable base for decision-making in UBGI layout optimization.

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Well, Friederike, and Ferdinand Ludwig. "Development of an Integrated Design Strategy for Blue-Green Architecture." Sustainability 13, no. 14 (July 16, 2021): 7944. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13147944.

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Blue-green architecture entails buildings that contribute to improving the urban climate through the synergetic combination of water management and vegetation. They are part of an urban blue-green infrastructure network that combines ecosystem services in a multifunctional way. Projects implemented in an interdisciplinary manner create synergies with regard to the combination of water-related and vegetation-related objectives. However, applicable design strategies for this approach are currently lacking in practice. This paper investigates the approach of a blue-green architectural project in Stuttgart (the so called “Impulse Project”) and derives insights for an integrated design strategy. The analysis and transfer of the research is carried out by using the research by design methodology. For this purpose, the interdisciplinary design process is divided into three phases (pre-design, design, post-design) and described in detail. Reflection on the documented design reveals the knowledge gained and enables the transfer of the findings to future projects by means of the integrated design strategy for blue-green architecture.

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Fung, Charmaine K. W., and C. Y. Jim. "Influence of blue infrastructure on lawn thermal microclimate in a subtropical green space." Sustainable Cities and Society 52 (January 2020): 101858. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2019.101858.

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Valente de Macedo, Laura Silvia, Marc Eric Barda Picavet, José Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, and Wan-Yu Shih. "Urban green and blue infrastructure: A critical analysis of research on developing countries." Journal of Cleaner Production 313 (September 2021): 127898. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127898.

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Kopp, Jan, Jindřich Frajer, Michal Lehnert, Michal Kohout, and Jiří Ježek. "Integrating Concepts of Blue-green Infrastructure to Support Multidisciplinary Planning of Sustainable Cities." Problemy Ekorozwoju 16, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/pe.2021.2.14.

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Currently, there is a tendency to apply nature-based landscape components as an important element in decentralised stormwater management, an essential part of sustainable urban development. The term blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is now used for many planning solutions of sustainable cities. Using thematic analysis of 27 studies and documents between 20062019, we identified 6 types of approaches to BGI. We then reclassified the six observed approaches into three basic categories of conceptual approaches to BGI. We distinguished four basic guidelines for the development of science and practice, aimed at promoting of an integrated concept of BGI to support multidisciplinary planning of sustainable cities. Based on the benefits of BGI presented in studies and documents, we show the importance of BGI from the perspective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Marques, Bruno, Jacqueline McIntosh, and Victoria Chanse. "Improving Community Health and Wellbeing Through Multi-Functional Green Infrastructure in Cities Undergoing Densification." Acta Horticulturae et Regiotecturae 23, no. 2 (November 18, 2020): 101–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ahr-2020-0020.

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AbstractEvidence shows that maintaining a relationship with nature is essential for human health and wellbeing. This is of great importance when migration to urban areas is increasing globally and the need for nature as well as green and blue spaces as a source of recreation and relaxation is highly regarded for the health and wellbeing of local communities. Sustainable urban development and alternative design solutions to address urban compactness and densification are becoming increasingly important tools to counteract the adverse effects of urban sprawl. In the context of the highly compact bicultural capital city of Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand, this paper examines the effects of urban densification and compact city development in urban green spaces. It explores how architecture and landscape architecture can transform urban environments into desirable places to live and capitalise on the potentials of interstitial spaces, outdated zoning and changing land-use. To achieve that, it looks at green and blue infrastructure design solutions and opportunities that foster sustainable intensification and by offering new views for health and wellbeing that improve the social, cultural and environmental health of the city.

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Atchison, Jennifer. "Green and Blue Infrastructure in Darwin; Carbon Economies and the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Valuing Urban Mangroves in Australia." Urban Science 3, no. 3 (July 31, 2019): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci3030086.

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Darwin’s mangrove ecosystems, some of the most extensive and biodiverse in the world, are part of the urban fabric in the tropical north of Australia but they are also clearly at risk from the current scale and pace of development. Climate motivated market-based responses, the so-called ‘new-carbon economies’, are one prominent approach to thinking differently about the value of living infrastructure and how it might provide for and improve liveability. In the Australian context, there are recent efforts to promote mangrove ecosystems as blue infrastructure, specifically as blue carbon, but also little recognition or valuation of them as green or urban infrastructure. Drawing on observational and qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews, this study examines how key stakeholders in Darwin frame and understand mangroves in relation to the urban, and how they are anticipating and responding to governance efforts to frame mangroves and pay for their carbon sequestration and storage services as blue carbon. The push for large infrastructure development and an expanding urban footprint, present serious challenges for mangrove protection, and the study evidences both denial and complacency in this regard. However, although the concept of blue carbon is already taking effect in some circles, it was not viewed as straightforward or as appropriate by all study participants and may very well work in practice to exclude groups within the community. Both clear governance problems, as well as unrecognized and vernacular community connections to mangroves in Darwin, indicate that there are ongoing conceptual and empirical challenges to be considered in recognizing and valuing mangroves as part of urban life.

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Zischg, Jonatan, Mariana L. R. Goncalves, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, Günther Leonhardt, Maria Viklander, Arjan van Timmeren, Wolfgang Rauch, and Robert Sitzenfrei. "Info-Gap robustness pathway method for transitioning of urban drainage systems under deep uncertainties." Water Science and Technology 76, no. 5 (May 30, 2017): 1272–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2017.320.

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In the urban water cycle, there are different ways of handling stormwater runoff. Traditional systems mainly rely on underground piped, sometimes named ‘gray’ infrastructure. New and so-called ‘green/blue’ ambitions aim for treating and conveying the runoff at the surface. Such concepts are mainly based on ground infiltration and temporal storage. In this work a methodology to create and compare different planning alternatives for stormwater handling on their pathways to a desired system state is presented. Investigations are made to assess the system performance and robustness when facing the deeply uncertain spatial and temporal developments in the future urban fabric, including impacts caused by climate change, urbanization and other disruptive events, like shifts in the network layout and interactions of ‘gray’ and ‘green/blue’ structures. With the Info-Gap robustness pathway method, three planning alternatives are evaluated to identify critical performance levels at different stages over time. This novel methodology is applied to a real case study problem where a city relocation process takes place during the upcoming decades. In this case study it is shown that hybrid systems including green infrastructures are more robust with respect to future uncertainties, compared to traditional network design.

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Wang, Hefei, and Zongping Pei. "Urban Green Corridors Analysis for a Rapid Urbanization City Exemplified in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu." Forests 11, no. 12 (December 21, 2020): 1374. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f11121374.

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The undergoing trend and development towards urbanization and the consequences of socio-ecological and climate change are increasing the pressure on cities worldwide. The planning of urban green and blue spaces is essential for sustainable urban development, especially for the conservation of urban ecosystems in fast-growing cities. In this context, the spatial-explicit and ecological connectivity analyses of urban green infrastructure are helpful tools for planning and the evaluation of spatial patterns and their changes for the sustainability of urban development. The aim of this study is to understand the influence of urban expansion on the urban green corridors. In this paper, we present an analysis of ecological networks for green infrastructure planning at the city level, making the most out of morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) techniques and social-ecological analysis methods. The findings reveal the changes of spatial patterns of urban green and blue areas in Gaoyou city and disclose its ecological corridors and connectivity from 1990 to 2012. The urban green corridors analysis method proposed here can be used in other cities and allow for the production of spatially detailed urban ecological connectivity assessment and monitoring. Recommendations to enhance and conserve green corridors and ecological networks such as reserving networks in the east of the example city have been concluded. The conclusion obtained using our spatial analysis method can be used in other municipalities to serve as spatial-explicit tools for urban green spaces and land use planning.

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Lamond, Jessica, and Glyn Everett. "Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship." Landscape and Urban Planning 191 (November 2019): 103639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103639.

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Ido, Sella, and Perkol-Finkel Shimrit. "Blue is the new green – Ecological enhancement of concrete based coastal and marine infrastructure." Ecological Engineering 84 (November 2015): 260–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.09.016.

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Suleiman, Lina. "Blue green infrastructure, from niche to mainstream: Challenges and opportunities for planning in Stockholm." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 166 (May 2021): 120528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120528.

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Pradilla, Gonzalo, Georg Lamberty, and Johannes Hamhaber. "Hydromorphological and socio-cultural assessment of urban rivers to promote nature-based solutions in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic." Ambio 50, no. 8 (June 1, 2021): 1414–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01565-3.

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AbstractIn Latin America and the Caribbean, river restoration projects are increasing, but many lack strategic planning and monitoring. We tested the applicability of a rapid visual social–ecological stream assessment method for restoration planning, complemented by a citizen survey on perceptions and uses of blue and green infrastructure. We applied the method at three urban streams in Jarabacoa (Dominican Republic) to identify and prioritize preferred areas for nature-based solutions. The method provides spatially explicit information for strategic river restoration planning, and its efficiency makes it suitable for use in data-poor contexts. It identifies well-preserved, moderately altered, and critically impaired areas regarding their hydromorphological and socio-cultural conditions, as well as demands on green and blue infrastructure. The transferability of the method can be improved by defining reference states for assessing the hydromorphology of tropical rivers, refining socio-cultural parameters to better address river services and widespread urban challenges, and balancing trade-offs between ecological and social restoration goals.

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Doost Mohammadian, Hamid, and Fatemeh Rezaie. "i-Sustainability Plus Theory as an Innovative Path towards Sustainable World Founded on Blue-Green Ubiquitous Cities (Case Studies: Denmark and South Korea)." Inventions 5, no. 2 (March 30, 2020): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/inventions5020014.

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Nowadays, the new concept of urban living is required as a path to struggle with urbanization challenges in order to maintain the world and make cities better settings for living through creating high quality of life and liveability. To achieve such areas, developing sustainability, urban planning based on Information Technology, Information Communication Technology infrastructure, and innovative management play important roles. So, authors try to find out new concepts of urban life concerned with these indicators through sustainability, innovation, ubiquitous, and smartness to create a sustainable and modern world through smart cities. Based on authors’ researches, Blue-Green infrastructure based on environmentally friendly, green strategies, sustainable water management, and ubiquitous services focusing on digitalization and high technologies are required to make a modern world. Fundamentally, innovation management in technology, business and marketing has important roles in designing such areas by keeping up with growing demands and low resources of energies. In this research, i-Sustainability Plus is introduced as a theory to create Blue-Green Ubiquitous cities as modern sustainable and liveable urban areas. Such areas could make the world a better place for living through sustainable development and improving quality of human life.

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Đorđević, Tomislav. "Reducing urban heat islands and improving the thermal comfort of residents: A nature-based solution." Arhitektura i urbanizam, no. 52 (2021): 65–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/a-u0-27685.

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The benefits of urban blue-green infrastructures are well known: they intercept airborne three-atom particles, thus reducing pollution levels; and they provide shade and cooling by means of evapotranspiration. The focus of this paper is to demonstrate methods such as remote sensing and multi-spectral analysis, which can be a very useful addition to the quantification of blue-green infrastructures for cooling and shading, especially in the highly complex geometry of city blocks. The basic aim of this research is to attempt to reduce urban heat islands and in this way to indirectly increase the comfort of living. A cause/ effect relationship between the envelope of built up structures and the solar radiation distribution on the environment was established by means of multi-spectral analysis, and an estimation was made concerning the lack of vegetation on a specific parcel/block (an important tool for urban planners). This state-of-the-art methodology was applied to the optimized prediction concept of vegetation resources. Now it is possible to create a model that will incorporate this newly-added urban vegetation into urban plans, depending on the evaporation potential that will affect the microclimate of the urban area. Such natural cooling can be measured and adapted and hence aimed at a potential decrease in temperature in areas with UHI emissions. As a case study, part of a seacoast urban block (Abu Dhabi UE,) was analysed with and without a street treeline and green façades and roofs. It was concluded that green infrastructure reduced the land surface temperature by up to 4.5˚C.

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Dushkova, Diana, Maria Ignatieva, Michael Hughes, Anastasia Konstantinova, Viacheslav Vasenev, and Elvira Dovletyarova. "Human Dimensions of Urban Blue and Green Infrastructure during a Pandemic. Case Study of Moscow (Russia) and Perth (Australia)." Sustainability 13, no. 8 (April 8, 2021): 4148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13084148.

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Significant challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that features of a modern, sustainable and resilient city should not only relate to fulfilling economic and social urban strategies, but also to functional urban design, in particular, related to urban blue and green infrastructure (BGI). Using results from a web-based questionnaire survey conducted May–July 2020 in Moscow (Russia) and Perth (Australia), this paper provides insights regarding citizens’ needs for and values of urban BGI as well as their changes during and after the COVID-19 restrictions. Survey data collected during the lockdown period have captured information about people’s ability to access green and blue spaces within urban BGI, inequalities in access, feelings, and values as well as needs and perceived pathways of future development of urban natural environment. In both cities, lockdowns limited access of people to green spaces which affected their mental and physical health. Survey results revealed that the quality, functionality, and location of open green spaces illustrated a disparity in distribution, meaning that in many cases several communities from particular neighborhoods suffered from limited access to BGI. Furthermore, in addition to analyzing perceptions and values of urban nature during the COVID-19 pandemic, some suggestions for improvement of urban BGI based on the survey responses are provided.

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Pochodyła, Ewelina, Katarzyna Glińska-Lewczuk, and Agnieszka Jaszczak. "Blue-green infrastructure as a new trend and an effective tool for water management in urban areas." Landscape Online 92 (September 27, 2021): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3097/lo.202192.

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Blue-green infrastructures (BGI) integrate solutions implemented to enhance water management and landscape values for more climateresilient and livable cities. BGI have created an opportunity to renew the natural structure of water balance in cities through the increase in rainwater retention and enlargement of permeable areas. The review of the literature on BGI development and solutions showed that the most popular BGI elements in terms of urban water quantity and quality were rain gardens, green roofs, vertical greening systems, and permeable pavements. Their structure and effectiveness were presented and reviewed. Despite the consensus between researchers that BGI benefit urban hydrology, differences in runoff decreased (2%-100%) lowering the peak flows (7%-70%) and infiltration (to 60%) or evapotranspiration (19%-84%) were reported. Due to an individual technical structure, each BGI element plays a specific role and there is no universal BGI solution against water-related problems. We inferred that the most effective ones were individually adapted solutions, which prevent from a stressor. The greater variety of solutions in a given area, the more benefits for the urban environment. Our analyses showed that a holistic and co-creative approach to create blue-green networks should be considered in modern water management plans.

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Versini, Pierre-Antoine, Filip Stanic, Auguste Gires, Daniel Schertzer, and Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia. "Measurements of the water balance components of a large green roof in the greater Paris area." Earth System Science Data 12, no. 2 (May 6, 2020): 1025–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1025-2020.

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Abstract. The Blue Green Wave of Champs-sur-Marne (France) represents the largest green roof (1 ha) of the greater Paris area. The Hydrology, Meteorology and Complexity lab of École des Ponts ParisTech has chosen to convert this architectural building into a full-scale monitoring site devoted to studying the performance of green infrastructures in storm-water management. For this purpose, the relevant components of the water balance during a rainfall event have been monitored: rainfall, water content in the substrate, and the discharge flowing out of the infrastructure. Data provided by adapted measurement sensors were collected during 78 d between February and May 2018. The related raw data and a Python program transforming them into hydrological quantities and providing some preliminary elements of analysis have been made available. These measurements are useful to better understand the hydrological processes (infiltration and retention) conducting green roof performance and their spatial variability due to substrate heterogeneity. The data set is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3687775 (Versini et al., 2019b).

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