The Role of Green Infrastructure Solutions in Urban Flood Risk Management
This Knowledge Note explores the role of green infrastructure solutions in urban flood risk management. Green infrastructure solutions represent an approach that focuses on using natural processes for managing wet weather impacts while delivering e...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26793299/role-green-infrastructure-solutions-urban-flood-risk-management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25112 |
| Summary: | This Knowledge Note explores the role of
green infrastructure solutions in urban flood risk
management. Green infrastructure solutions represent an
approach that focuses on using natural processes for
managing wet weather impacts while delivering environmental,
social, and economic benefits. Green infrastructure
solutions, such as wetlands, bioshields, buffer zones, green
roofing, street side swales, porous pavements, wetlands,
mangroves, etc., are part of an integrated approach to flood
risk management which relies on a balance of structural and
non-structural measures. |
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