Blue-Green Infrastructure Across Asian Countries: Improving Urban Resilience and Sustainability

This edited book discusses Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) from conception to implementation in building resilience and urban sustainability, with a special focus on Asia. It emphasizes the importance of infrastructures, institutions, and perceptions in implementing and managing successful BGI, and highlights concepts and field-based experiences from experts in the region. The book addresses sustainable water management, multiscale environmental design, environmental risk assessment, and policy implications for BGI mainstreaming in growing urban sprawls. It is a timely contribution to the fields of environment, resilience, urban planning, climate adaptation, and sustainability science.

Format: Hardback
Length: 518 pages
Publication date: 25 March 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This edited book delves into the realm of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI), exploring its conception to implementation in building resilience and urban sustainability. It emphasizes the importance of infrastructures, institutions, and perceptions as the three central pillars in successfully implementing and managing BGI, with a special focus on Asia. The book showcases concepts and field-based experiences from various Asian regions, featuring insights from experts on advancements and opportunities in advancing BGI, as well as the challenges and constraints faced. It also includes case studies on BGI mainstreaming, addressing sustainable water management, multiscale environmental design, environmental risk assessment, and understanding policy implications and concerns for BGI's integration in the region's rapidly expanding urban sprawls.

The global recognition of BGI as a multifunctional Nature-based Solution (NbS) with numerous co-benefits has been gaining momentum. Extensive evidence from urban centers in Europe, the United States, China, and South Africa demonstrates that mainstreaming BGI can effectively address the growing vulnerability of urban areas by ensuring safety, resilience, and sustainability for urban residents in a warming world. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, scholars, urban planners, consultants, and policy makers in the fields of environment, resilience, urban planning, climate adaptation, and sustainability science.

Weight: 969g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811671272
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022