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
planned and delivered network comprising
the broadest range of high quality green
spaces and other environmental features. It
should be designed and managed as a
multifunctional resource capable of
delivering those ecological services and
quality of life benefits required by the
communities it serves and needed to
underpin sustainability. Its design and
management should also respect and
enhance the character and distinctiveness of
an area with regard to habitats and
landscape types. Natural England
Green Infrastructure or blue-green
infrastructure is a network providing
the “ingredients” for solving urban
and climatic challenges by building
with nature Wikipedia
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GI is a successfully tested tool for
providing ecological, economic
and social benefits through natural
solutions. EU
Green infrastructure is a phrase used
to describe all green and blue spaces
in and around our towns and cities.
The term allows us to refer to – and
consider the collective value of – all of
these spaces at once.
Component elements of green
infrastructure include parks, private
gardens, agricultural fields, hedges,
trees, woodland, green roofs, green
walls, rivers and ponds. The term
covers all land containing these
features, regardless of its ownership,
condition or size. RTPI
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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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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