Green Infrastructure: Current Debates for Policy, Practice and Implementation

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Ian C. Mell (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Green Infrastructure

Current Debates for Policy, Practice and Implementation

Ian C. Mell (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)

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Routledge
18 December 2019

Landscape art & architecture; Urban communities; The environment; Urban & municipal planning; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing. How we interact with, manage and value these spaces is important, as it helps us to ensure we live in attractive, functional and sustainable places. Green Infrastructure planning is the current ‘go-to’ approach in landscape planning that incorporates human-environmental interactions, understandings of ecology and how socio-cultural factors influence our use of parks, gardens and waterways.

This book explores several interpretations of Green Infrastructure bringing together case studies of policy, practice, ecological change and community understandings of landscape. Focusing on how planning policy shapes our interactions with the landscape, as individuals and communities, the book discusses what works and what needs to be improved. It examines how environmental management can promote more sustainable approaches to landscape protection ensuring that water resources and ecological communities are not harmed by development. It also asks what the economic and community values of Green Infrastructure are to illustrate how different social, ecological and political factors influence how our landscapes are managed.

The central message of the book focusses on the promotion of multi-functional nature within urban landscapes that helps people, the economy and the environment to meet the challenges of population, infrastructure and economic change. The chapters in this book were origianally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.

Edited by: Ian C. Mell (University of Liverpool United Kingdom University of Liverpool United Kingdom)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367892227
ISBN 10: 0367892227
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 18 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).