Green Infrastructure

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing. How we interact with, manage, and value these spaces is important, as it helps us to ensure we live in attractive, functional, and sustainable places. Green Infrastructure planning is the current ‘go-to’ approach in landscape planning that incorporates human-environmental interactions, understandings of ecology, and how socio-cultural factors influence our use of parks, gardens, and waterways.

This book explores several interpretations of Green Infrastructure, bringing together case studies of policy, practice, ecological change, and community understandings of landscape. Focusing on how planning policy shapes our interactions with the landscape, as individuals and communities, the book discusses what works and what needs to be improved. It examines how environmental management can promote more sustainable approaches to landscape protection, ensuring that water resources and ecological communities are not harmed by development. It also asks what the economic and community values of Green Infrastructure are, to illustrate how different social, ecological, and political factors influence how our landscapes are managed.

The central message of the book focuses on the promotion of multi-functional nature within urban landscapes that helps people, the economy, and the environment to meet the challenges of population, infrastructure, and economic change. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Landscape Research.