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For the first time in history, more than half the world’s population will be living in urban areas. Cities offer enormous opportunities, but they also create problems that degrade the environment, thus the quality of life in the city, surrounding suburban areas and downstream settlements. By 2030, it is projected that 4.9 billion people will be living in cities. Managing it in a sustainable way provides a unique opportunity. The objectives of water management in urban areas are to ensure that no damage is caused during extreme participation and that long periods of droughts do not cause problems in cities or the countryside. The Blue Green Dream project promotes a new paradigm for efficient planning and management of the urban environment. This volume introduces the methods by which mutual interactions of urban water infrastructure (blue assets) and urban vegetated areas (green assets) are taken into account in the synergy of spatial planning and optimised modelling of ecosystems’ performance indicators. This method of planning should make future developments cheaper to build, their users will pay lower utility bills (for water, energy, heating), such developments will be more pleasant to live in and property value would likely be higher.
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Principles such as mix of use and users, plenty of public space, combination of wide streets and mews (inner streets) provide parking spaces that don’t dominate street view, etc.
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- Multiple-use water services
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The project under the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community to ‘enhance the synergy of urban blue (water) and green (vegetated) systems and provide effective, multifunctional Blue Green solutions to support urban adaptation to future climatic changes’ (http://bgd.org.uk/)
- Blue services
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Flood protection, water supply (for irrigation, drinking water, land subsidence control), recreational water, and thermal energy collection, transport and storage, space for living and working on or above water, landscaping, habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species and cultural services (physical health, aesthetics, spiritual), climate regulation (equitable climate), detoxification and purification of water (pollution control) and hazard regulation
- Climate change
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Change in global or regional climate patterns, attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by fossil fuel use
- Green services
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Parks and recreation grounds, brown-field remediation sites, woodlands, gardens, churchyards and green corridors, trees and standing vegetation (food and timber), wild species diversity, regulating (detoxification) and cultural services (physical health, aesthetics, spiritual) in addition to their natural ability to improve the delivery of climate-related services
- Millennium Development Goals
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Eight international development goals established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, following adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration
- Pluvial flooding
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Flooding that result from rainfall overflow before run-off enters any watercourse or sewer
- SUDS
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Sustainable Urban Drainage System
- UHI
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Urban Heat Island
- WSUD
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Water-Sensitive Urban Design
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Maksimović, Č., Kurian, M., Ardakanian, R. (2015). Rethinking Infrastructure Design. In: Rethinking Infrastructure Design for Multi-Use Water Services. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06275-4_1
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