In response to interdependent challenges, city planners are increasingly adopting “green
infrastructure”(GI). Reviewing 122 plans from 20 US cities, we identify what types of city …

Qualitative content analysis as a kind of systematic analysis of qualitative data in which the
latent values and meanings of the text are tried to be identified, described, and interpreted, is …

Abstract Cities across the Unites States have embraced green infrastructure (GI) in official
planning efforts. The plans conceptualize GI as providing multiple functions and benefits for …

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

Green infrastructure (GI) has become a panacea for cities working to enhance sustainability
and resilience. While the rationale for GI primarily focuses on its multifunctionality (eg …

Though urban areas represent a small fraction of global land cover, they have an outsized
impact on hydrological processes. Within these areas, the pathways that water follows are …

Green infrastructure is an increasingly popular urban sustainability strategy, widely
promoted for its ability to provide multiple benefits. We examined 120 planning documents …

Cities around the world are increasingly expanding their sustainability agendas and
adopting urban green and blue infrastructure planning as a strategy to become more …

Abstract Scholarship on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) primarily focuses on the potential for
NbS to deliver multiple benefits to humans and biodiversity from networked natural systems …

There is increasing advocacy from academics, international agenda-setting organisations,
and cities themselves for expert-and evidence driven approaches to multiple aspects of …