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Knowledge use and decision-making in urban green infrastructure projects
Aims: Addressing the summit theme of ‘Governance, Infrastructure and Finance’ and questions of ‘understanding’ and ‘creating’ resilient and sustainable cities, this research programme investigates how different kinds of knowledge are currently used, and how they could be better mobilised, in urban decision-making and design. Green infrastructure (GI) is used as an example case, referring here to networks of high-quality green, and blue, areas that provide valuable, tangible benefits to human populations, playing a critical role in supporting and maintaining rapidly growing and evolving urban communities. The call for “safe, inclusive, accessible, green, and quality public spaces” encapsulated in high-level documents such as UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda (UN 2016) has implications for policy and practice in GI projects as elements of effective public space making. / Methods: GI benefits to environment and society have a long history, though shorter in the highly intentional, technical space of urban design and practice (Ahern 2007). Many countries have adopted GI approaches and some have formalised this in national and local policy. Through technical and policy data collation from existing GI projects and interviews with practitioners and policy-makers, this study outlines examples of GI concepts being applied to create urban green spaces in the Gauteng City-Region (South Africa) and London (UK). The overarching aim is to understand and improve the ways in which these projects are currently resourced, framed and effected; determining how GI approaches operate on the ground (knowledge base, skills, techniques etc.) and understanding how policies currently promote or hinder their implementation. / Findings: This study is framed by preliminary case studies, considering how these geographic areas have adopted and used GI practices and the implications for wider urban environments. Examples of effective practice in planning, implementation and policy-making will be drawn out, considering the efficacy of different ...
Knowledge use and decision-making in urban green infrastructure projects
Aims: Addressing the summit theme of ‘Governance, Infrastructure and Finance’ and questions of ‘understanding’ and ‘creating’ resilient and sustainable cities, this research programme investigates how different kinds of knowledge are currently used, and how they could be better mobilised, in urban decision-making and design. Green infrastructure (GI) is used as an example case, referring here to networks of high-quality green, and blue, areas that provide valuable, tangible benefits to human populations, playing a critical role in supporting and maintaining rapidly growing and evolving urban communities. The call for “safe, inclusive, accessible, green, and quality public spaces” encapsulated in high-level documents such as UN-Habitat’s New Urban Agenda (UN 2016) has implications for policy and practice in GI projects as elements of effective public space making. / Methods: GI benefits to environment and society have a long history, though shorter in the highly intentional, technical space of urban design and practice (Ahern 2007). Many countries have adopted GI approaches and some have formalised this in national and local policy. Through technical and policy data collation from existing GI projects and interviews with practitioners and policy-makers, this study outlines examples of GI concepts being applied to create urban green spaces in the Gauteng City-Region (South Africa) and London (UK). The overarching aim is to understand and improve the ways in which these projects are currently resourced, framed and effected; determining how GI approaches operate on the ground (knowledge base, skills, techniques etc.) and understanding how policies currently promote or hinder their implementation. / Findings: This study is framed by preliminary case studies, considering how these geographic areas have adopted and used GI practices and the implications for wider urban environments. Examples of effective practice in planning, implementation and policy-making will be drawn out, considering the efficacy of different ...
Knowledge use and decision-making in urban green infrastructure projects
Washbourne, C-L (author)
2017-07-13
Presented at: EcoCity World Congress, Melbourne, Australia. (2017)
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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