Green Infrastructure
Mitigation options?
Green Infrastructure
Objectives & outcomes
• Define green infrastructure and place it in context
• Identify broad concepts and principles
• Understand how principles and concepts can be
translated into physical reality
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Green Infrastructure
1. Introduction
2. Concepts & principles
3. Case studies:
o Water supply
o Transport
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Definition(s), concepts
and principles
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Green Infrastructure is a strategically GI is a successfully tested tool for
planned and delivered network comprising providing ecological, economic
the broadest range of high quality green and social benefits through natural
spaces and other environmental features. It solutions. EU
should be designed and managed as a
multifunctional resource capable of
delivering those ecological services and Green infrastructure is a phrase used
quality of life benefits required by the to describe all green and blue spaces
communities it serves and needed to in and around our towns and cities.
underpin sustainability. Its design and The term allows us to refer to – and
management should also respect and consider the collective value of – all of
enhance the character and distinctiveness of these spaces at once.
an area with regard to habitats and Component elements of green
landscape types. Natural England infrastructure include parks, private
gardens, agricultural fields, hedges,
Green Infrastructure or blue-green trees, woodland, green roofs, green
infrastructure is a network providing walls, rivers and ponds. The term
the “ingredients” for solving urban covers all land containing these
and climatic challenges by building features, regardless of its ownership,
with nature Wikipedia condition or size. RTPI
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Green infrastructure:
Nature can be used to provide important services for communities by protecting
them against flooding or excessive heat, or helping to improve air, soil and water
quality. When nature is harnessed by people and used as an infrastructural system
it is called “green infrastructure”.
Green infrastructure occurs at all scales. It is most often associated with stormwater
management systems, which are smart and cost-effective. However, green
infrastructure is really a larger concept and is closely associated with many
other things. Green infrastructure also serves to provide an ecological framework
for social, economic and environmental health of the surroundings.
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Laws of motion
Every object persists in its state of rest or uniform motion in a
straight line unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed
upon it;
Force is equal to the change in momentum over time. For a
constant mass, force equals mass x acceleration;
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
Laws of thermodynamics
1st law – Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
2nd law – The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will
tend to increase over time,
3rd law – As temperature approaches absolute zero, the entropy
of a system approaches a constant minimum
0th law – If two thermodynamic systems are each in thermal
equilibrium with a third, then they are in thermal equilibrium with
each other
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TROPHIC LEVELS
ECOLOGICAL NICHE THEORY
SYSTEM NETWORKS
POPULATION DENSITY RATIO
FOOD WEBS
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PHYSICAL CYCLES
ELEMENTAL CYCLES
GREENHOUSE EFFECT SERAL SUCCESSION
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Case studies:
1: Water supply
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Case studies:
2: Highways
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