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Conservation for Cities : How to Plan and Build Natural Infraestructure by McDonald, Robert I. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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It's time to think differently about cities and nature. Understanding how to better connect our cities with the benefits nature provides will be increasingly important as people migrate to cities and flourish in them. All this urban growth, along with challenges of adapting to climate change, will require a new approach to infrastructure if we're going to be successful. Yet guidance on how to plan and implement projects to protect or restore natural infrastructure is often hard to come by. With Conservation for Cities, Robert McDonald offers a comprehensive framework for maintaining and strengthening the supporting bonds between cities and nature through innovative infrastructure projects. After presenting a broad approach to incorporating natural infrastructure priorities into urban planning, he focuses each following chapter on a specific ecosystem service. He describes a wide variety of benefits, and helps practitioners answer fundamental questions: What are the best ecosystem services to enhance in a particular city or neighborhood? How might planners best combine green and grey infrastructure to solve problems facing a city? What are the regulatory and policy tools that can he

Who reads Conservation for Cities : How to Plan and Build Natural Infraestructure?

Author

McDonald, Robert I.

Publisher

Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610915236

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Sociology, Nature