Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements
Gebundenes Buch

Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements

Implications for Developing Countries Under Climate Change

Herausgegeben: Joshi, P. K.; Rao, K. S.; Bhadouria, Rahul; Tripathi, Sachchidanand; Singh, Rishikesh
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Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is now recognized as beneficial in terms of maintaining water flows and thermal comfort in urban areas. A framework of ecosystem services for urban settlements may be instrumental in bio-physical benefits as well as social and psychological benefits that will be assisting in adaptation and mitigating adverse effects of changing climate. Cities in developing countries, where the land cover is undergoing rapid transition, are characterized primarily by urban characteristics at the expense of natural ecosystems. The book aims to provide a state of the art of Urban ...