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 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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Main Authors: Soz, Salman Anees, Kryspin-Watson, Jolanta, Stanton-Geddes, Zuzana
Format: Brief biblioteca
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016-08
Subjects:urban sanitation, flood control, green infrastructure, urban flood risk, risk management, gender,
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
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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.