Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

Browder, Greg J.; Ozment, Suzanne; Bescos, Irene Rehberger; Gartner, Todd; Lange, Glenn‐Marie

doi:10.1596/978-1-56973-955-6

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“…These results confirm the roles played by vegetated spaces [43,110], building density, and water surfaces in previous studies [33,111,112] and confirm mitigation practices based on green and blue space solutions [113]. This study also highlighted the relatively low cooling power of low vegetation during the sunny afternoons of the measurement campaigns.…”

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“…However, this is not an urban morphological descriptor on which designers, urban planners, or politicians can directly act. The urban parameters highlighted by the models that can be influenced in planning operations to combat extreme temperatures in cities mainly concern green and blue solutions, and grey solutions [113][114][115].…”

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“…At the same time, deteriorating ecosystem condition in many locations has increased the risk and vulnerability of water Journal Pre-proof J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 3 supply (Renaud et al, 2013). Consequently urban communities are struggling to build safe, reliable and economically viable water supply infrastructure (Browder et al, 2019).…”

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Vegetation and longitudinal coarse sediment connectivity affect the ability of ecosystem restoration to reduce riverbank erosion and turbidity in drinking water

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Science of The Total Environment

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“…Instead, dependent Targets should be seen as critical opportunities for investing in nature-based solutions (NBS) (Cohen-Shacham et al, 2016) for sustainable development. For example, with US$90 trillion expected to be spent globally on infrastructure over the next 15 years, there is growing acknowledgment that investments must prioritize low-carbon projects that retain flexibility under climate change (Browder et al, 2019). Focusing investment on 'green infrastructure', for example, that actively leverages nature's regulating functions, provides flexible pathways for rapid and sustainable progress toward Targets in the water sector (6.1access to safe & affordable drinking water), sustainable cities and disaster risk reduction (11.5reduce number of people affected by disasters) and the design of resilient infrastructure more generally (9.4sustainable infrastructure & industries) (Browder et al, 2019;Vorosmarty et al, 2018).…”

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Make nature's role visible to achieve the SDGs

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Non-technical summary Implicit in the UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Agenda is the notion that environmental sustainability is intertwined with, and underpins, the 17 Goals. Yet the language of the Goals, and their Targets and indicators is blind to the myriad ways in which nature supports people's health and wealth – which we argue represents a key impediment to progress. Using examples of nature–human wellbeing linkages, we assess the language of all 169 Targets to identify urgent research, policy, and action needed to spotlight and leverage nature's foundational role, to help enable truly sustainable development for all. Technical summary Nature's foundational role in helping achieve the SDGs is implicit rather than explicit in the language of SDGs Goals, Targets, and indicators. Drawing from the scientific literature describing how nature underpins human wellbeing, we carry out a systematic assessment of the language of all 169 Targets, categorizing which Targets are dependent upon nature for their achievement, could harm nature if attained through business-as-usual actions, or may synergistically benefit nature through their attainment. We find that half are dependent upon nature for their achievement – yet for more than two-thirds of those nature's role goes unstated and risks being downplayed or ignored. Moreover, while achieving the overwhelming majority of the 169 Targets could potentially benefit nature, more than 60% are likely to deliver ‘mixed outcomes’ – benefitting or harming nature depending on how they're achieved. Furthermore, of the 241 official indicators <5% track nature's role in achieving the parent Target. Our analysis provides insights important for increasing effectiveness across the SDG agenda regarding where to invest, how to enhance synergies and limit unanticipated impacts, and how to measure success. It also suggests a path for integrating the ‘nature that people need’ to achieve the SDGs into the CBD's post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Social media summary Harmonizing links between the SDGs and the CBD's post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is vital for promoting sustainable development

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Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure

Cited by 69 publications

References 52 publications

Remote Sensing in Applications of Geoinformation

Remote Sensing in Applications of Geoinformation

Vegetation and longitudinal coarse sediment connectivity affect the ability of ecosystem restoration to reduce riverbank erosion and turbidity in drinking water

Make nature's role visible to achieve the SDGs

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