Overview
- Explores the need for alternatives to grey, “build-bigger-pipes” water management strategies
- Considers the role of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources in an increasingly urbanised world
- Illustrates how different cities have implemented green and blue infrastructure policies
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Book Title: Blue and Green Cities
Book Subtitle: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
Authors: Robert C. Brears
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41393-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41392-6Published: 04 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41395-7Due: 04 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41393-3Published: 03 October 2023
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XII, 255
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Environment, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Geography, general