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Designing green and blue infrastructure to support healthy urban living
2016
Designing green and blue infrastructure to support healthy urban living Netherlands 1. This list is based on the amount (m 2) of green space per household in the built up areas. However, the municipality is working very hard to improve the amount of green spaces, as is shown by an increase of 24% in the area of green per household from 2009 to 2014. Five knowledge institutes based in Utrecht (TNO, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment RIVM, University Utrecht, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI and Deltares), cooperate to support the development towards a larger and denser but healthy city in the joint Knowledge Center for Healthy Urban Living 2. Municipality Utrecht is candidate for the European Green Capital Award. 93 Designing green and blue infrastructure to support healthy urban living Literature
Blue-Green Infrastructure for Jakarta’s Sustainable Planning and Resilience
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
The concept of a sustainable city that has been described in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires all cities in the world to implement it to solve climate problems that if not handled are increasing every year. The impact of climate change, which is a global problem, can affect lives, such as hydrometeorological disasters especially floods. Flood problems can be overcome with the Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) development approach, one of which is green open space with a retention pond as an effort to achieve the SDGs in the Sustainable City component. Based on this statement, this study will identify in determining the location of BGI development in this case green open space with retention ponds to support the concept of sustainable planning and resilience in one of the metropolitan cities in Indonesia, Jakarta, which is the most populous city that has high rainfall and has minimal open space. The construction of the BGI is carried out as an effort to reduce the impa...
New Eco-Cities, New Open Spaces: the Future of Green and Blue Infrastructures
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This paper analyses how some key eco-city models have proposed the creation of networks of green and blue spaces and discusses how these strategies can be relevant for new greenfield cities in 2050. New urban settlements being planned from scratch, such as Dongtan and in China and Masdar in Abu Dhabi, are hoping to become models of sustainable urbanism for the future. In its first part, the paper discusses the emergence of the eco-city ideal and the conditions we expect to face in 2050. Secondly, it investigates how some of the newly created cities organize their green and blue infrastructures, and how they envisage their role in contemporary life and in the future urban environment. Finally, building on this analysis and focusing on the environmental, social and economic challenges that are expected in 2050, the paper discusses its findings and presents a vision for the role that the networks of green and blue spaces can play in future cities. To conclude, this work aims to inform ...
Review of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Some Selected Countries
American Journal of Environmental Sciences
Blue-Green Infrastructures (BGI) integrate solutions implemented to enhance water management and landscape values for more climateresilient and livable cities. It has created an opportunity to renew the natural structure of water balance in cities and rural through the increase in rainwater retention and enlargement of permeable areas. The objective of this review is to assess the blue-green infrastructures of selected countries (Ethiopia, Japan, and the USA). BGI is a driver for biodiversity and provides groundwater storage, stability for water systems, improvement in water quality, water purification, and water-related network service. It also has several benefits for enhancing inland connections and protecting marine ecological systems on a global scale. They minimize the effects of climate change, enhance water management techniques, provide important design tools for sustainable regions, increase the resilience and flexibility of infrastructure and provide an area for social and recreational activities. Currently, the selected countries have been given due attention to BGI using different methods. To ensure the efficient use of subsurface water, Japan and the USA are increasing the groundwater from the current level of thorough protection and expanding the availability of green space, green roofs, permeable paving, and other structural measures. Moreover, Ethiopia has been restored on a massive scale planting trees and wise use of forests. Japan's eco-building in Fukuoka and Nagoya Strategy for Biodiversity, the USA in Seattle cities are working on water management and urban development plans, Ethiopian's East Haarge and Tigray are some the wellknown BGI. In all countries, the implementation and transformation of BGI have occurred under systematic conditions. The best practices of BGI in Ethiopia, Japan, and the USA will benefit the people of the world if it is implemented in a good manner.
Asia’s Greening Challenge: Is the Green building becoming a barrier to sustainable development?
Keynote Speaker at Sustainable Buildings 2013 “Sustainable Buildings, Infrastructures and Communities in Emerging Economies" (25 -27 November), Quezon City, Manila, Philippines . ABSTRACT: Green is not, by definition, the same as sustainable. Green is a relative measure, an argument to do less harm. To be sustainable is to live within the carrying capacity of our planet, to do no harm. Much of Asia has embraced the Green building, using sustainable interchangeably with Green. In its present form the Green building in Asia is in urgent need of scrutiny. At the heart of the problem underlying Green is a fragmentation of thinking – good ideas co-existing with bad ones – that leads to conflicting, sometimes meaningless, outcomes. This is what permits a building to be declared Green if it has an energy-efficient cooling system even though it is wrapped in a glass envelope that increases its cooling load measurably. It is what allows a building to be unexceptional in its day-to-day performance yet continue to be regarded Green because it was certified such on the drawing board. Something in industry mindsets enables the acceptance of these outcomes. As Asia embraces the Green building this trend is increasingly troubling. This paper examines the gap between Green and sustainable, arguing for hard questions and new descriptors that will move the discourse forward.
2017
2017 Fall Conference and Storm Water Expo CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT local waterways. The construction of the artificial wetland to process wastewater cost the city USD 26 million less than a conventional treatment system and saves USD 1.6 million annually in operational costs, while water discharged from the wetlands surpasses the quality of water from the city's wastewater treatment plant (PSNewswire 2013). As is the case in forest restoration, it is also important to consider unintended consequences as part of planning for artificial wetlands (e.g. one concern can be proliferation of invasive species in the nutrientrich habitats (Tanner et al. 2006)). Another important concern, particularly in the tropics, but also elsewhere in the world, is the creation of new habitats for mosquitos and thereby vector-borne disease risks (Medlock and Vaux 2011). Constructing Wetlands Water management benefits Co-benefits ¬ Water supply regulation (incl. drought mitigation) ¬ Flood mitigation ¬ Water purification and biological control ¬ Water temperature control ¬ Biodiversity benefits (incl. pollination) ¬ Recreational, aesthetic value ¬ Reduced water treatment costs ¬ Livelihood income possibilities ¬ Climate change adaptation and mitigation (carbon storage and sequestration)