Overview
- Explores the need for alternatives to grey, “build-bigger-pipes” water management strategies
- Considers the role of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources in an increasingly urbanised world
- Illustrates how different cities have implemented green and blue infrastructure policies
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This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally relied on grey infrastructural solutions to mitigate risks with numerous economic and environmental consequences. Brears explores the role urban water managers have in implementing blue-green infrastructure to reduce ecological damage and mitigate risk. The case studies in this book illustrate how cities, of differing climates, lifestyles and income-levels, have implemented policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water, wastewater and stormwater sustainably to reduce environmental degradation and enhance resilience to climate change. This new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably will be of interest to those working on water conservation and policy.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert C. Brears is the founder of Mitidaption, Mark and Focus, and is Director on the International Board of the Indo Global Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture. He is the author of Urban Water Security (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blue and Green Cities
Book Subtitle: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
Authors: Robert C. Brears
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59258-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95918-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59258-3Published: 07 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 318
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Hydrology/Water Resources, Urban Studies/Sociology, Environmental Geography, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings