We had engaging presentations on what Glasgow itself is doing to address urban drainage, planning and green space issues by increasing green infrastructure; green infrastructure from a biodiversity point of view, looking at water voles and amphibians; and how a range of green infrastructure interventions can easily be included into new developments or re-developments from BREEAM and Scottish Wildlife Trust. The conference also provided opportunities for several Master and PhD projects to be presented, giving delegates an insight into current research and early outcomes. Copies of the presentations are available to download here:. Richard Ashley: Synchronicity: Multiple benefits of Green Infrastructure David Hay: M etropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership Fraser Maxwell: GI audits and delivering GI in our towns and cities Maggie Keegan: A Natural Capital Standard for G I Dr Bent Braskerud: Raingardens in Norway - the works in introduce SuDs into routine business Tony Barrett: Lessons on ...

When it comes to stormwater management, green infrastructure can be explained as a number of approaches to managing wet weather impacts in a more resilient approach that manages more rain where it lands. This approach benefits the environment and community, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Examples of green infrastructure include, but are not limited to, plant or soil systems, permeable pavement or other permeable surfaces, rainwater harvest and reuse with rain barrels or rain gardens. Green infrastructure is different than gray infrastructure, which is also included in the Citys current infrastructure. Gray infrastructure is the more traditional piped system which traditionally meant to move water directly from one location to another location. Green infrastructure reduces and treats stormwater at its source while delivering environmental, social and economic benefits.. Pilot Program Impact on Residents ...

The Green Infrastructure Center Inc. (GIC) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today released a New York edition of a green infrastructure planning guide that will help communities protect and restore vital green infrastructure that can help mitigate flooding, while at the same time performing critical life sustaining functions like cleaning the air and water. Based on GICs six years of field testing and a case study conducted in Ulster County, New York, the guide shows communities how to map their most significant natural resources and make plans to conserve or restore them.

Equipa constituída por dois docentes, investigadores do Centro de Investigação em Agronomia, Alimentos, Ambiente e Paisagem (LEAF) e três bolseiros de investigação do Laboratório de Patologia Vegetal Veríssimo de Almeida do Instituto Superior de Agronomia participam no ENCONTRO COST FP 1204 - Green Infrastructure: Nature based solutions for sustainable and resilient cities, de 4 a 7 de abril em Orvieto, Itália, apresentando duas comunicações orais, uma em Ordenamento do Território, e duas comunicações em painel na área da Arboricultura Urbana:. - When Inonotus rickii meets Celtis australis: a constraint on the use of hackberry trees in Lisbon (Autores: Maia, F., Valada, T., Ferreira, B., Caetano, M.F., Ramos, A.P.). - The nature-base solutions and green infrastructure at landscape scale searching for territorial resilience. Application to Portugal (Autores: Pena, S. B.; Magalhães, M.R.; Abreu, M.M.). - Trees of Public Interest in Portugal: obstacle or advantage to modern ...

Eventbrite - Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) presents Making Green Infrastructure Main Stream: Exploring the Drainage Act as a tool to support wide-scale implementation of green infrastructure - Thursday, 13 July 2017 at Holiday Inn, Guelph, Ontario. Find event and ticket information.

Users socio-economic characteristics can influence the visit and utilization pattern of urban green infrastructure. Assessing the influence of socio-economic characteristics of people on the utilization of UGI is an important instrument to show gaps for city/town planners, developers and decision makers. This paper investigates the effect of socio-economic characteristics of people on a monthly visit of green infrastructure in Southern Ethiopia. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and key informant interview, a total of 400 urban communities were interviewed in the entire study area. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics, multiple regression models and chi-square test. The majority (54%) of respondents in Hawassa city visit two to three times per month, in Bodity town 22% of respondents visited UGI two to three times per month. Whereas, 30% of respondent in Wolayita Sodo visit UGI once a month. In general, 28.75% and 23.75% of respondents visited green ...

Green infrastructure (GI) has been regarded as an effective intervention for urban runoff reduction. Despite the growing interest in GI, the technical knowledge that is needed to demonstrate their advantages, cost, and performance in reducing runoff and pollutants is still under research. The present paper describes a framework that aims to obtain the optimal configuration of GI (i.e., the optimal number of units distributed within the catchment) for urban runoff reduction. The research includes an assessment of the performance of GI measures dealing with pollution load, peak runoff, and flood volume reduction. The methodological framework developed includes: (1) data input, (2) GI selection and placement, (3) hydraulic and water quality modelling, and (4) assessing optimal GI measures. The framework was applied in a highly urbanized catchment in Cali, Colombia. The results suggest that if the type of GI measure and its number of units are taken into account within the optimisation process, it is

The ESA Urban Ecosystem Ecology Section offers student travel awards for student members of the section to attend the ESA Annual Meeting this August in New Orleans, LA.. Travel awards are partially supported by Springer on behalf of the journal Urban Ecosystems and typically range from $300 to $400 per student.. Please send a statement of research interests and statement of need (no more than 500 words combined), the title and abstract of your accepted ESA abstract, whether your presentation is oral or a poster, and your student status (undergrad, MS, PhD). You must also have one letter of recommendation sent directly to the email address below.. Send your application materials with the subject line UEE Travel Award to Dr. Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman at [email protected]. Applications are due July 28, 2018!. NOTE: Only UEE section members are eligible to apply. It only costs $5.00 to join the section.. ...

The Los Angeles River, reengineered from the late 1930s to the 1960s into a concrete channel for flood control and industrialization, has recently been the focus of revitalization efforts. Our Urban Agriculture Green Infrastructure Plan seeks to transform a known food desert along the river into a series of healthy, resilient neighborhoods capable of growing and cultivating their own food.. Stretching 660 acres, this urban agriculture hub would build community; provide greater access to healthy food among residents in the area; and stimulate economic development. New industries could include farming, insect farming, beekeeping, animal husbandry, aquaculture, and fungiculture. And, such sustainable business enterprises could set up shop in what are currently abandoned or underused lots, community gardens, or even on rooftops. Ultimately, the plan provides a vision for a future LA-and a future LA River-that is healthy, connected, and equitably prosperous.. ...

Nitsch Engineering of Boston earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) 52nd annual Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) for the Kennedy Street Green Infrastructure Project in Washington, D.C.

The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) will fund green infrastructure projects in Cook County, Ill. According to a MWRD new

ATLANTA, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Geosyntec Consultants Signs Strategic Teaming Agreement for High Performance Green Infrastructure Computing Platform.

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Green Infrastructure Ontario (GIO) Coalition is an alliance of organizations that share a common vision for a healthy, green Ontario where the economic, social, environmental and health benefits of green infrastructure are fully realized. LEAF is a founding member of the steering committee and lead partner on the Trillium grant which supports this project. Our goal is to ensure that provincial policies and funding strategies support the protection, maintenance and enhancement of living green infrastructure (urban forests, green roofs, green walls, stormwater ponds, etc.) in urban areas. For more information or to join the coalition, please visit www.greeninfrastructureontario.org.. ...

Organized by the World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) NAGOYA in cooperation with the NPO Sky Front Forum, please join us in Japan for the upcoming WGIN Congress Nagoya 2015, held on October 14-16 at the KKR HOTEL NAGOYA. Presentations will be simultaneously translated into both English and Japanese.. The World Green Infrastructure Congress (WGIC) is an annual international event on urban green infrastructure which provides social, environmental and economical benefits through sustainable greening systems such as green roofs, living walls, urban forests, landscape regeneration, wetland renewal and water sensitive urban design practices.. The three-day 2015 Congress in Nagoya will provide international and national keynote experts presenting on new research, case studies, best practice management, and the latest technologies in this expanding industry. The annual national green fair of Japan will be held during the same period in Nagoya city, so international participants will be able to ...

Adaptation to Climate Change at Local Scale: A CFD Study in Porto Urban Area. By Vera Rodrigues, Sandra Rafael, Sandra Sorte, Sílvia Coelho, Hélder Relvas, Bruno Vicente, Joana Leitão, Myriam Lopes, Ana Isabel Miranda and Carlos Borrego. Green infrastructures play an essential role in urban planning, namely with their potential to reduce the impact from air pollution episodes together with extreme weather events. This chapter focuses on the assessment of green infrastructures benefits on current and future microclimate and air quality patterns in Portos urban area (Portugal). The effects of green infrastructures on flow dynamics are evaluated for the baseline scenarios by means of numerical and physical simulations, using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model VADIS and the wind tunnel of the University of Aveiro. The baseline morphological (BM) scenario focuses on the current morphological characteristics of Portos urban area, while a baseline green (BG) scenario comprises the ...

The urban landscape hosts diverse ecosystems, many of which are strongly modified by humans while some are semi-natural or natural. Julie B. Halvorsens close look at the urban ecosystems of Oslo, defined using the NiN system, shows that also strongly modified ecosystems can be distinguished by the plants that grow there.. Halvorsens multivariate analysis (DCA and GNMDS) of species composition was based on her maps and botanical inventory of 201 plots along an urban-rural gradient from Oslos city centre to the surrounding forest. She mapped these 10x10 m plots at 1:500 m scale using NiN ecosystem types, and recorded abundances of all vascular plant species in each of the mapped polygons in the plots.. Her results support the existing partitioning of strongly modified ecosystems in NiN, which is based mainly on substrate types and physical history. Environmental variables like elevation and temperature did not seem to affect the species composition, leaving human influence and soil properties ...

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Josiah is a licensed landscape architect, academic, and sustainable design consultant with over 20 years direct experience in the sustainable design industry. He is known as a visionary ecological integration strategist addressing green infrastructure and urban environmental processes. His technical credentials include net zero water management, urban agriculture, sustainable building materials and landscape applications on structure. Josiahs research, writing, and lecture topics focus on the relationship between ecology and urban design, including Performance Ecology, Integrated Water Management, Embedded Ecology, Urban Habitat, Green Infrastructure, Urban Agriculture, and Ecological Bionics. He has lectured at major universities and conferences and been featured in Sunset Magazine, Martha Stewart Radio, HGTV, and the New York Times ...

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The Environmental Processes (EP) research focus area of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (http://www.cee.cornell.edu/) invites applications for research-based M.S./Ph.D. and Ph.D. studies beginning in the 2017/2018 academic year. Cornell offers graduate students the opportunity to individualize their course of study with a committee of faculty members to select the most important courses to complement their research. Students in the EP focus area take courses related to physical and chemical processes in water and wastewater treatment, water chemistry, biological processes, and a variety of specialized courses including environmental risk analysis, environmental fate and transport modelling, biocatalysis and biodegradation, and can also take advantage of an extensive range of courses in other environment-focused disciplines at Cornell. Research in the EP area generally focuses on the biological, chemical, and physical phenomena that affect the behavior and ...

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On Tuesday March 16th, the Arlington County Civic Federation (ACCF) is hosting an important presentation for its members on the irreplaceable value of Arlingtons tree canopy. The meeting is also open and free to the public with prior registration at this site by noon tomorrow. At 7pm, the meeting will begin with Senator Mark Warner who will speak and answer questions. At 8:20 pm, Karen Firehock will present remarks on the value of tree canopy in Arlington.. Ms. Firehock, Director of the Green Infrastructure Center in Richmond, will outline numerous benefits from trees including property value, fitness opportunities, clean air, well-being and mental health, less crime, job development and preservation, attractive areas for development, commercial, historic preservation, and energy conservation. The author of numerous handbooks, including her latest publication Green Infrastructure: Map and Plan the Natural World With GIS, Ms. Firehock was recently recognized as a national leader in Green ...

|p>With rapid global population growth and increasing urban and suburban density, there is often less room for green spaces. However, further integrating different types of high-performing green spaces, or green infrastructure, into the built environment is becoming a priority. Green infrastructure can be considered a conceptual framework for understanding the valuable services nature provides the human environment. At the national or regional level, interconnected networks of park systems and wildlife corridors preserve ecological function, manage water, provide wildlife habitat, and create a balance between built and natural environments. At the urban level, parks and urban forestry are central to reducing energy usage costs and creating clean, temperate air. Lastly, green roofs, walls, and other techniques within or on buildings bring a range of benefits, including reduced energy consumption and

Traditionally, governments havent factored farms and ranches into their climate mitigation and adaptation planning. Instead, the focus has mostly been on protecting urban communities. But that is all changing. At the National Adaptation Forum earlier this month in St. Louis, agriculture was top-of-mind in discussions about reducing emissions and building resilience to climate change.. Thats because in order to protect people, 81 percent of whom live in urban areas, well need to protect whats around where they live, too. Its largely rural areas, like the farming town of 1,100 people where I grew up, whose working lands and farms provide valuable services to urban areas. These services include food security, flood and drought protection, recreation and water storage. Agriculture can also play (and is already playing) a big role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.. The more resilient we can make agriculture, the better off well all be. Read More » ...

This countywide functional master plan combines the related elements of green infrastructure planning and rural and agricultural conservation into one functional master plan in order to streamline the process, meet state requirements for planning elements, and more efficiently update existing plans and maps. The Resource Conservation Plan was prepared in response to recommendations in the Countys general land use plan, Plan Prince Georges 2035 Approved General Plan (Plan 2035). Developed with the active participation of the community, including property owners, developers, residents, and elected officials, this document contains goals, measurable objectives, policies, and strategies pertaining to green infrastructure planning, agricultural and forestry conservation, and rural character conservation. ...

A similar boost occurs with marriage and other life changes, of course, but according to studies, that rapidly dissipates. What makes green infrastructure so different is that the boost is sustainable over a much longer span of time if not permanently.. One of the tree conservation requirements a few state legislators want to outlaw are those that provide near-road buffers and screens. An overview of their benefits was published recently, co-authored by Dr. Rich Baldauf, a scientist doing research here in Durham.. Some in the legislature seem to only listen to whiners, unaware that the far greater number now known as low impact developers are far more successful because instead of whining, these developers, architects and site planners embrace and exceed these local green infrastructure conservation ordinances.. The 16-year old movement exploded more than a decade ago after a case study was conducted on two developments south of Puyallup, Washington (southeast of Tacoma) comparing conventional ...

Lets stop combined sewage overflows by encouraging the use of green infrastructure solutions at the individual, neighborhood, and city levels. Green infrastructure refers to anything that helps prevent rain water from going down the storm drain (i.e. rain barrels, rain gardens, trees, and much more).

Vote Bay Smart for the Bay Area. Oaklands Measure KK and Berkeleys Measure T1 invest in street and stormwater infrastructure improvements.

In contrast to that 6,000 number, in that same twenty-year span America experienced about 9.5 million smoking deaths, 1.1 million motor-vehicle deaths, and about 4 million deaths from medical mistakes. None of these produced one watt of energy to help the feed, clothe, house, educate or provide prosperity to the populace.. What about the costs of studying, industrializing, and deploying a green infrastructure? Since 1993, OMB has reported over $154 billion in funding for federal climate change activities, plus a half-a-billion dollars wasted in the Solyndra scandal that did nothing for energy.. Is this green infrastructure zero-greenhouse gas? No. Millions of tons of steel and concrete - that otherwise would not have been mined, transported, refined, transported, formed, transported, erected, and then taken down in twenty years, transported and dumped into a landfill, are the non-green costs of this boondoggle that, at the end of this 30-year period still has not produced one watt of base-load ...

In the July issue of ISA Arboriculture & Urban Forestry magazine, Hossain, Stuhlinger, Olson, and Babst contributed, A Comparison of Indirect Water Devices for Benefiting Newly Transplanted Urban Trees. Urban trees often undergo a period of post-transplant stress which is exacerbated by a water-limited environment. Watering devices are available to help a newly-planted tree receive... More ...

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The Showcasing Innovation Series is a provincial pilot. When we talk to practitioners in local government, it doesnt matter what the region, the message is the same…they tell us that they are too busy to communicate with their colleagues in neighbouring municipalities. Yet the irony is that there is much to learn by sharing information with each other. At the end of the day, it seems that it takes a third party to bring people together, states Paul Ham ...

Parjana Distribution LLC (PD) offers a means of increasing the infiltration rate without jeopardizing groundwater quality. The technology allows public works

NEW YORK -- Where Second Street dead ends with the Gowanus Canal, a New Yorker comes face to face, but hopefully not hand to water, with a slice of the o...

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Beacon is a pretty densely developed city, which is good in a lot of ways, but you have these voids where little creatures like butterflies and bees dont have a way to get through because they dont have food or shelter, he told me. Were creating these habitat corridors. Eco-nectar has nearly 200 members who put themselves on different maps by reporting the earth-friendly efforts theyre making on or in their own balconies and backyards. Planting native pollinator habitat, installing rain barrels, using solar power, and composting are among the activities people can log to claim badges on the maps. Pledging not to use synthetic fertilizers or chemical pesticides, or to plant only hardy native species, can also earn a badge.. Dylan hopes participants will see that, multiplied by thousands of others, even a little veggie garden makes an impact. And he thinks the maps visuals will inspire peoples neighbors to make even more environmental impacts. I am a case in point: I knew I wanted to get ...

It is disturbing that in this age of supposed scientific advancement there are so many manipulations and poor management practices of natural lands and wildlife. This surely speaks to the increasing disconnect our society faces from a lack of exposure to the natural world and meaningful understanding of it. More inexcusable, though, is the apparent paucity of quality science education and mentorship at academic institutions that were renowned for such not long ago. This seeming ignorance of basic conservation biology principles has even extended to esteemed scientific and geographic journals. These are the folks with authority and responsibility to instruct the next generation of those open to learning such principles. How many academics, professors, and land managers today consider it indispensable to teach a Do No Harm ethic to those working with the natural world? How many of them even know what it means, let alone its importance?. We should never lose sight of the fact that large-scale ...

Acres for America program to safeguard wildlife habitats in Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City, , , , BENTONVILLE, Ark., Walmart s Acres for America program is donating $500,000 to...

Air pollution affects lakhs of people every year. Despite this, our cities, which report dangerously high levels of air pollutants, lack a comprehensive plan to combat it.

This innovative book sees contemporary urban settlement as the new human ecosystems defining peoples lives across the planet. Just as so-called natural ecosystems have defined our view of the...

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This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article. In 1945, the Amazon biome was still mostly intact. The scars of ancient cultural developments in Andean and lowland Amazon had healed, and the impacts of rubber and other resource exploitation were reversible. Very few roads existed, and only in its periphery. In the 1950s and especially in the 1960s, Brazil and other Andean countries launched ambitious road building and colonization projects, largely driven by Brazilian geopolitical concerns. Interest in the Amazon became much more intense in the 1970s as forest loss began to raise worldwide concern. Construction of more and better roads continued at an exponentially growing pace in each following decade, multiplying correlated deforestation and forest degradation everywhere in the Amazon. A point of no return was reached when interoceanic roads crossed the borders of Brazilian-Andean ...

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Green Infrastructure such as green roofs have become an ever-increasing focus of sustainable urban design as they provide many ecosystem services. However, such ecosystem services are largely dependant on the overall health and productivity of both soil and plant components. My thesis aims to investigate soil carbon and nitrogen pools in green roofs, as well as the underlying processes of microbial nitrogen mineralization and its contribution not only to green roof nutrient cycling, but to the maintenance of plant health and productivity to maximize ecosystem services ...

What if public utilities engage in payments for ecosystem services (PES)? This requires a change in mindset, but also in pricing and related regulatory mechanisms of utilities. Unfortunately, there is currently little research on how this may work in practice.15 One example is incentives put in place for public water utility districts in California to participate in innovative finance mechanisms.16 A component of this initiative involves paying landowners upstream to better manage their lands, avoiding increases in pollutant loads caused by land change. However, pricing mechanisms such as PES are only part of the solution and may need to be replaced or complemented with other mechanisms depending on the specific ecosystem-service bundle in question. Moreover, the whole infrastructure network upon which utilities for delivering their services may need to be reformed to reflect the type of ecosystem services. For instance, the concept of green infrastructure, also called integrated infrastructure, ...

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. These include water purification, air quality, space for recreation and climate mitigation and adaptation. This network of green (land) and blue (water) spaces can improve environmental conditions, and therefore citizens health and quality of life. This is due to the enhancement of biodiversity, both from a functional perspective and from cultural/aesthetical perspectives.. The project focuses on the development of a practical guidance manual, which guides the implementation of appropriate biodiversity research into design, construction, and management of blue-green infrastructure for European countries. This manual will be used by academia, government, business, industry and citizens when researching, designing and planning individual and integrated solutions in cities, regionally, and nationally.. ...

The Convention will explore the critical role that forests play in providing life-giving ecosystem services and serving as green infrastructure to our communities.. ...