Planning Green Infrastructure as a Source of Urban and Regional Resilience – Towards Institutional Challenges

Abstract

Green infrastructure programmes and strategies are regarded as planning opportunities to promote sustainable and resilient urban development. However, the discourse about green infrastructure policy and its effectiveness has pointed to the limited success in practical implementation. Since the green infrastructure has no planning status in its own right, it depends on being embedded in comprehensive urban and regional planning approaches if it is to have an impact on sustainable and resilient urban development. At the same time spatial planning may contribute to providing a platform for its institutionalisation. Against this backdrop, the article first looks at the contents of urban resilience. Secondly, we discuss principles for planning resilient cities. Thirdly, we analyse how green infrastructure initiatives can foster these principles contributing to building urban and regional resilience. Fourthly, we discuss the challenges facing the institutionalisation of green infrastructure initiatives. Finally, we draw conclusions about the future role of spatial planning in the process of institutionalising green infrastructure strategies.

Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review

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SME resilience as a catalyst for tourism destinations: a literature review

“…Regarding environmental resilience, good practices (Calgaro et al, 2014 ; Cashman et al, 2012 ; Schiappacasse & Müller, 2015 ; Cumming et al, 2015 ; Tervo-Kankare, 2018 ; Buffa et al, 2018 ; Holladay & Powell, 2016 ; Njoroge et al, 2018 ; Spenceley, 2019 ) address local proximal impacts and environment-friendly products influence the values and attitudes of vacation consumers (Pereira et al, 2012 ). However, global measures (van der Veeken et al, 2016 ; Lew & Cheer, 2018 ; Powell et al, 2018 ; De Leon & Kim, 2017 ; Mahadew & Appadoo, 2018 ; Choi et al, 2017 ; Koninx, 2018 ; Brown et al, 2018 ; Pandy & Rogerson, 2019 ) give attention to the long-term impact of climate change (Jones, 2019 ).…”

Assessment of Blue and Green Infrastructure Solutions in Shaping Urban Public Spaces—Spatial and Functional, Environmental, and Social Aspects

“…There may be difficulties associated with selecting the most appropriate engineering methods when planning and designing BGI components and systems, as well as construction and implementation challenges [6,47,48,50]. BGI solutions also include limitations such as the need to obtain funds and the difficulty of implementing complex technologies for monitoring, and also the difficulty in the maintenance of extensive BGI systems after their implementation [50,[62][63][64][65][66].…”