Blue and green infrastructure
All kinds of blue and green infrastructure in the settlement areas (rivers, river valleys, water reservoirs, natural and artificial wetlands, parks, squares, orchards, gardens, allotments, green street strips, grasslands and other) decrease runoff and increase retention capacity. Preservation of the existing elements and creation of new elements is a contribution to heavy rain risk management and has a large number of additional benefits.
Synergies may exist between heavy rain risk management measures and other development goals like environmental protection, health care, and economic performance. Harnessing them requires involvement of different actors, enforcement of exchange between you and them and holistic thinking.
Check out the RAINMAN good practice examples:
- Good Practice Catalogue – the Rules for Sustainable Management of Stormwater from Road Surface, PL
- Price estimation for solutions from the “Good Practice Catalogue – the Rules for Sustainable Management of Rainwater from Road Surface”, CZ
- Good Practice Catalogue – the Rules for Sustainable Management of Rainwater in an urbanized area (part II), CZ
- The municipal Wroclaw subsidy program "Catch the Rain", PL
- Water absorbing geocomposite (WAG)
READ MORE:
- Factsheets of key reasearch findings of the UK BlueGreenCities-project: http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/publications/factsheets.aspx (25.03.2020)
- Sylwia Horska-Schwarz, Irena Krukowska Szopa, Andrzej Ruszlewicz, Małgorzata Horska (2018): SUSZA CZY POWÓDŹ? Poradnik adaptacji do zmian klimatu poprzez małą retencję i ochronę bioróżnorodności [DROUGHT OR FLOOD? Guide to adaptation to climate change through small retention and biodiversity protection], URL: http://www.malaretencja.pl/publikacje.html (25.03.2020)
- Iwona Wagner, Kinga Krauze, Maciej Zalewski, Katedra Ekologii Stosowanej, Uniwersytet Łódzki, Europejskie Regionalne Centrum Ekohydrologii pod auspicjami UNESCO, PAN (): Błękitne aspekty zielonej infrastruktury [Blue aspects of green infrastructure], URL: https://www.teraz-srodowisko.pl/media/pdf/aktualnosci/1576-Blekitne-aspekty-zielonej-infrastruktury.pdf (20.03.2020)
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