Green Infrastructure: Current Debates for Policy, Practice and Implementation

ISBN-13: 9780367892227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 112 str.

Ian C. Mell

Opis

This book explores how ecological, policy, financial and socio-cultural understandings of Green Infrastructure influence our understanding of its value and the long-term support of its management. It was originally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.

Spis treści

1. Green infrastructure: reflections on past, present and future praxis Ian C. Mell 2. The emergence of green infrastructure as promoting the centralisation of a landscape perspective in spatial planning—the case of Ireland Mick Lennon, Mark Scott, Marcus Collier and Karen Foley  3. Urban green infrastructure and urban forests: a case study of the Metropolitan Area of Milan Giovanni Sanesi, Giuseppe Colangelo, Raffaele Lafortezza, Enrico Calvo and Clive Davies 4. Can we face the challenge: how to implement a theoretical concept of green infrastructure into planning practice? Warsaw case study Barbara Szulczewska, Renata Giedych and Gabriela Maksymiuk 5. Siting green stormwater infrastructure in a neighbourhood to maximise secondary benefits: lessons learned from a pilot project Danielle Dagenais, Isabelle Thomas and Sylvain Paquette 6. Italian stone pine forests under Rome’s siege: learning from the past to protect their future Lorenza Gasparella, Antonio Tomao, Mariagrazia Agrimi, Piermaria Corona, Luigi Portoghesi and Anna Barbati  7. Defining community-scale green infrastructure Gemma Jerome 8. Common economic oversights in green infrastructure valuation Alexander Whitehouse 8. Conclusion: What next for Green Infrastructure? Ian Mell

O autorze

Ian Mell is a Lecturer in Environmental & Landscape Planning (University of Manchester). He researches human-environmental interactions exploring social, economic and ecological valuation of Green Infrastructure in the UK, EU, USA, and Asia. Ian is the author of Global Green Infrastructure: Lessons for successful policy-making, investment and management (2016, Routledge).