Green infrastructure needs green governance: Lessons from Australia’s largest integrated stormwater management project, the River Torrens Linear Park

Ibrahim, Alhassan; Bartsch, Katharine; Ehsan, Shoaib

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121202

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“…Similar findings were reported by Barnhill and Smardon, who in their study of GSI stakeholders in Syracuse, New York, USA, found that people were most concerned with potential costs, unanticipated impacts, and the potential scale of GSI installations [16]. Relatedly, many scholars have studied strategies for GSI planning to identify the highest-impact installation sites, wherein benefits of a project might be most easily explained to residents [29,30].…”

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Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning in Urban Landscapes: Understanding Context, Appearance, Meaning, and Perception

Meenar

Howell

Moulton

et al. 2020

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Prior research has documented environmental and economic benefits of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI); literature on GSI social benefits is also becoming more prevalent among scholars around the world. This paper aims to understand whether GSI projects are considered as assets to urban neighborhoods or as projects that might introduce a new set of social concerns. Based on field observations of 238 GSI projects and 50 intercept interviews, we investigate selected social aspects of GSI, such as project context, visual appearance, recreational appeal, meaning, and public perception, in two neighboring US cities—Philadelphia and Camden. Analysis of field data and observation notes revealed that GSI project setting impacted recreational appeal; their appearance was related to maintenance and signage; and their interaction with the public depended on location, land use, and visual/recreational appeal. Most GSI sites with the presence of trash, but the absence of signage were found in potentially disadvantaged areas. According to intercept interviews, many people were not aware of GSI presence in the neighborhood, were not familiar with GSI or its functionality, did not find a way to get access to GSI or interact with them, and were generally concerned about poor design, defective construction, or lack of maintenance. We argue that lack of information and community care/support for GSI can result in social disinvestments in these projects, which can facilitate improper use and maintenance issues, affecting their intended basic environmental functions. Consistent with prior research, we speak to the importance of participatory planning processes in improving community acceptance and interests around GSI planning and installation in urban landscapes.

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Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning in Urban Landscapes: Understanding Context, Appearance, Meaning, and Perception

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Moulton

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“…Planning communal RWH systems in public spaces and in available, underused resource facilities (e.g., roofs and parking lots of water/electricity plants) can contribute to mutualizing efforts, reducing material costs, improving water accessibility for vulnerable communities, and reducing pressure on the current energy‐intensive drinking water system through local and decentralized solutions (Agudelo‐Vera et al., 2012; Valdez et al., 2016). Boroughs with high water consumption, in which utility infrastructures are mostly located in agricultural areas (e.g., Milpa Alta ), could benefit from state‐of‐the‐art design solutions for linear water catchment parks (Ibrahim et al., 2020). These could be constructed alongside existing aqueducts or below electric lines for use in agriculture irrigation, which could create an alternative or supplementary irrigation system and increase water storage capacity through wetland planning and landscaping.…”

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Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City

Peña¹,

Perrotti²,

Mohareb

2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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Urban metabolism studies provide valuable insights that can improve resource efficiency at the city scale. However, only a limited number of such studies include spatially explicit data to inform planning practitioners. In this article, we argue that integrating spatially explicit urban metabolism data in urban planning can leverage resource‐efficient development and management of open space networks. Based on this premise, our research presents a methodological strategy to investigate how the use of GIS data can improve the applicability of metabolic studies in urban planning and the management of open space networks in particular. A GIS‐based urban metabolism assessment of Mexico City was performed at the city scale, including data on vulnerable communities, communal lands, and indigenous areas. After mapping selected GIS layers, a detailed resource‐efficiency analysis was performed through the compilation of a Borough Pattern Scan, based on quantification of resource use, total areas of resource infrastructure, and public open spaces. The results of our multiscale spatially explicit analysis provide an improved understanding of borough metabolic profiles, which can leverage a more resource‐efficient development of open space networks in Mexico City.

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“…The role of leadership has been regarded as pivotal to influence followers' green attitudes and behaviors (Ibrahim et al , 2020). In this study, we examined a multi-level framework that examined the trickle-down effect of the project leader's ESSL on sustainable and green behaviors both at the individual and team level.…”

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“…proposed model fulfills the literature gap by adopting a robust theoretical and methodological approach. Thirdly, our study contributes to ESSL's utility within the context of sustainable organizations, which is a new and emerging form of organizational structure (Ibrahim, Bartsch, & Sharifi, 2020;Zhao et al, 2020). It is important to note that we explicitly focus on projects within sustainable and eco-friendly organizations in China.…”

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Environmental-specific servant leadership as a strategic tool to accomplish environmental performance: a case of China

Siddiquei

Asmi

Asadullah

et al. 2021

IJM

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PurposeThe Chinese firms are keenly focused on reducing their environmental footprints as part of the competitive strategy. Within the context of sustainable organizations in China, we test a multilevel framework that examined the impact of environmental-specific servant leadership on the green individual (pro-environmental behavior) and team (project green performance) outcomes within projects. Using social identity theory, we theorize and test the mediating role of green self-identity (individual level) and team green identification (team level) in the relationships between environmental-specific servant leadership, pro-environmental behavior and project green performance.Design/methodology/approachWe used survey questionnaires to collect multi-level and multi-wave data from 42 ongoing project-based sustainable organisations in China. The multilevel team to individual-level hypothesis were analyzed using multilevel-modeling via Mplus, while team level hypotheses were tested using ordinary least squares regression.FindingsThe multilevel regression analysis showed that environmental-specific servant leadership has a trickle-down effect of green self-identity, which subsequently predicts pro-environmental behavior. The ordinary least squares regression results demonstrated that environmental-specific servant leadership predicts project green performance via team green identification. Also, environmental-specific servant leadership has a positive and direct impact on pro-environmental behavior and project green performance.Research limitations/implicationsWe offer community and service dimension of leadership as a determinant of environmental performance at multiple levels. We provide managerial and policy implications to Chinese organizations striving to reposition themselves as eco-friendly organizations both nationally and globally.Originality/valueThe study is among the first to understand the role of environmental-specific servant leadership in predicting individual-level and team-level environment-related mediator and outcomes simultaneously.

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Green infrastructure needs green governance: Lessons from Australia’s largest integrated stormwater management project, the River Torrens Linear Park

Cited by 54 publications

References 34 publications

Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning in Urban Landscapes: Understanding Context, Appearance, Meaning, and Perception

Green Stormwater Infrastructure Planning in Urban Landscapes: Understanding Context, Appearance, Meaning, and Perception

Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City

Environmental-specific servant leadership as a strategic tool to accomplish environmental performance: a case of China

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