Assessment of green infrastructure performance through an urban resilience lens

Fu, Xin; Hopton, Matthew E.; Wang, Xinhao

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125146

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“…4. Urban infrastructure is the lifeline of the city, including the service facilities, municipal utilities engineering facilities, and public life (Fu et al, 2020;Wu et al, 2020). Urban infrastructure is the important carrier of city development, whose resilience embodies in the ability of cities to ensure the continuity of critical services and quickly restore the order of life when facing emergencies or unknown changes.…”

Section: Urban Resilience Evaluation Index Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China

2021

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Based on 2012-2017 panel data of 282 China's cities, this paper uses the entropy method to calculate an urban resilience index, uses spatial cold-hot spots model to explore spatial characteristics of urban resilience, uses revised the gravity model to construct urban resilience spatial network characteristics, and uses the social network analysis method to analyze spatial network characteristics of urban resilience. The results show that: (1) Urban resilience of China's cities has been gradually improved, and there is a geographical aggregation effect, with significant changes in hot spots and insignificant changes in cold spots. (2) Urban resilience has obvious spatial correlation and linkage effects and strong temporal fluctuation. The cities with higher degree centrality and closeness centrality are consistent in spatial distribution, mostly located in Bohai Rim, Pan-Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and some central regions. The centrality obviously shows non-equilibrium in spatial distribution. The cities with high centrality are mostly provincial capitals. (3) The "club effect" has not yet been

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Section: Urban Resilience Evaluation Index Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China

2021

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“…Assessment of the hydrological and/or sedimentological performance of such schemes are not routinely conducted and relatively few studies exist (e.g., Fu et al, 2021). Examples from UK SuDS schemes (Woods‐Ballard et al, 2015); stormwater ponds (Ahilan et al, 2019; Krivtsov et al, 2020); green roofs (Stovin et al, 2013), swales (Allen et al, 2015), bioretention, and integrated stormwater control systems (Ebrahimian et al, 2019; Traver & Ebrahimian, 2017) and a decade of monitoring by the Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) in Portland, Oregon USA (, 2013a; BES, 2010) are available.…”

Section: Green Infrastructure For Stormwater Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?

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Urban flooding is a key global challenge which is expected to become exacerbated under global change due to more intense rainfall and flashier runoff regimes over increasingly urban landscapes. Consequently, many cities are rethinking their approach to flood risk management by using green infrastructure (GI) solutions to reverse the legacy of hard engineering flood management approaches. The aim of GI is to attenuate, restore, and recreate a more natural flood response, bringing hydrological responses closer to pre‐urbanized conditions. However, GI effectiveness is often difficult to determine, and depends on both the magnitude of storm events and the spatial scale of GI infrastructure. Monitoring of the successes and failures of GI schemes is not routinely conducted. Thus, it can be difficult to determine whether GI provides a sustainable solution to manage urban flooding. This article provides an international perspective on the current use of GI for urban flood mitigation and the solutions it offers in light of current and future challenges. An increasing body of literature further suggests that GI can be optimized alongside gray infrastructure to provide a holistic solution that delivers multiple co‐benefits to the environment and society, while increasing flood resilience. GI will have to work synergistically with existing and upgraded gray infrastructure if urban flood risk is to be managed in a futureproof manner. Here, we discuss a series of priorities and challenges that must be overcome to enable integration of GI into existing stormwater management frameworks that effectively manage flood risk. This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water Engineering Water > Planning Water Science of Water > Water Extremes

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“…In particular, when considering climate change consequences, environmental impacts are critical to risk assessment and CI resilience [112]. However, only three of the identified 24 resilience assessment frameworks of CIs in this paper considered the environmental dimension [50,64,84]. According to Imran [64], disruptive events also have environmental impacts on CI resilience, but it was proved difficult to quantify environmental dimension and determining its indicators.…”

Section: The Investigation Of Environmental Impact Dimension Of CI Resilience Assessmentmentioning

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Resilience Assessment Frameworks of Critical Infrastructures: State-of-the-Art Review

2021

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During the past two decades, critical infrastructures (CIs) faced a growing number of challenges worldwide due to natural disasters and other disruptive events. To respond to and handle these disasters and disruptive events, the concept of resilience was introduced to CIs. Particularly, many institutions and scholars developed various types of frameworks to assess and enhance CI resilience. The purpose of this paper is to review the resilience assessment frameworks of the CIs proposed by quality papers published in the past decade, determine and analyze the common dimensions and the key indicators of resilience assessment frameworks of CIs, and propose possible opportunities for future research. To achieve these goals, a comprehensive literature review was conducted, which identified 24 resilience assessment frameworks from 24 quality papers. This paper contributes to the current body of resilience research by identifying the common dimensions and the key indicators of the resilience assessment frameworks proposed for CIs. In addition, this paper is beneficial to the practice, because it provides a comprehensive view of the resilience assessment frameworks of CIs from the perspective of implementation, and the indicators are pragmatic and actionable in practice.

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Assessment of green infrastructure performance through an urban resilience lens

Cited by 49 publications

References 79 publications

Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China

Spatiotemporal evolution and spatial relevance of urban resilience: Evidence from cities of China

Green infrastructure: The future of urban flood risk management?

Resilience Assessment Frameworks of Critical Infrastructures: State-of-the-Art Review

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