Traditional engineering approaches alone (gray infrastructure) are not able to meet all the
challenges of sustainability posed by growing urban population and consumption. Urban …

Urban nature is critical to addressing sustainability challenges. Three concepts capture the
core of this field: Urban Ecosystem Services (UES, benefits humans derived from urban …

This article reviews the current status of research on urban green and blue infrastructure
(GBI) in developing countries. We critically analyzed a total of 283 papers addressing urban …

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is a concept that has received wide attention in academia
recently and is increasingly applied in practice (eg Ahern 2007, Mell, 2016, Pauleit et al …

It is likely that half of the urban areas that will exist in 2050 have not yet been designed and
built. This provides tremendous opportunities for enhancing urban sustainability, and using …

Urban green infrastructure (GI) has been promoted as an approach to respond to major
urban environmental and social challenges such as reducing the ecological footprint …

Urbanization processes spur the need for urban green infrastructure (GI) to support the well-
being of urban dwellers and underpin a sustainable planning strategy. It is a challenge for …

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) can alleviate many of the problems that the growing urban
population is facing. This study performed a literature review about UGI and sustainable …

Abstract Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) consists of natural and semi-natural systems
implemented to mitigate climate change impacts in urban areas, including elevated air …

. Urban green and blue space interventions may bring about unintended consequences,
involving trade-offs between the different land uses, and indeed, between the needs of …