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The green edge: How commercial property investment in green infrastructure creates value
Posted on: 8 January 2014
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international non-profit environmental organization, has published this document which explores how the multitude of green infrastructure practices can help advance the bottom line for the commercial real estate sector. It provides illustrative examples for specific building types, based on published research, as well as a summary of key findings from that research.
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. A research impact review prepared for English Heritage by the Landscape Group, University of East Anglia
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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This review aims to examine the principal research carried out into Brown and his works over the last few decades, and to identify some of the principal gaps in our knowledge as we approach the tercentenary of his birth. This is based on a survey of the published secondary literature on Brown, and addresses the problem of the so-called ‘grey’ literature.
Clean Thames Now and Always
Posted on: 28 November 2013
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Clean Thames Now and Always is a group of environmentally conscious Londoners from all around the city, who are passionate about the possibilities of implementing state of the art blue-green infrastructure to improve and protect the Thames eco-system and improve our environment for all Londoners, in the short and long term.
TURAS green roof design guidelines: Maximising ecosystem service provision through regional design for biodiversity
Posted on: 20 November 2013
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Transitioning Towards Urban Resilience and Sustainability (TURAS) is a European-wide research and development programme. The “TURAS” project aims to bring together urban communities, researchers, local authorities and small and medium sized enterprises to research, develop, demonstrate and disseminate transition strategies and scenarios to enable European cities and their rural interfaces to build vitally-needed resilience in the face of significant sustainability challenges. This report represents a dissemination tool from Work Package 2 (WP2) of TURAS, Greening Public and Private Urban Infrastructure. The aim of WP2 is to develop new visions, feasibility strategies, spatial scenarios and guidance tools to enhance the biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits of urban green infrastructure. This report represents an overview of the green roof design research carried out as part of TURAS to investigate the effect on ecosystem service provision of designing green roofs for regional biodiversity.
Institutional investors and green infrastructure investments
Posted on: 1 November 2013
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This report is structured in three chapters. The first chapter examines the channels through which institutional investors can access green infrastructure, assesses the extent to which this is currently happening, and identifies the barriers to scaling up these investment flows. The second chapter presents four case studies: on utility-scale solar PV power generation in the United States, sustainable agriculture in Brazil, off-shore wind energy in the United Kingdom, and the securitisation of on-shore wind farms in Germany and France. The third chapter uses the conclusions on the case studies to draw out broader lessons for governments on the policy settings which may support investment in green infrastructure by institutional investors. These include ensuring a stable and integrated policy environment, addressing market failures, providing an infrastructure road map, facilitating the development of appropriate green financing vehicles, and promoting market transparency and improved data collection.
Grown in Britain: Creating a sustainable future for our woodlands and forests
Posted on: 22 October 2013
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This report was commissioned by the government as an action plan to establish an enduring and robust framework for a sustainable future for the UK’s woodlands and forests.
Green infrastructure: Valuation tools assessment
Posted on: 30 September 2013
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This report was commissioned to draw together a number of the most widely used tools and assess them against research standards for natural science and economics. The aim is to help people wanting to value green infrastructure choose the best tool for them. As well as descriptions and the assessment of the tools, links to further information and examples of the use of the tools are provided. The report also points to the key gaps in the tools available highlighting areas for further work.
Monitoring and evaluation of Nature Improvement Areas year 1 (2012-13)
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs), which seek to enhance the environment on a landscape scale, are making ‘real progress’ in delivering their objectives according to the first NIA evaluation report.
Green infrastructure’s contribution to economic growth: a review
Posted on: 15 August 2013
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A report, commissioned by the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and government advisor Natural England, and carried out by the Economics for The Environment Consultancy and Sheffield Hallam University, has been published. The purpose of this report is to assess whether investment in Green Infrastructure (GI) increases economic growth, based on the available evidence. The study took GI to mean a planned approach to the delivery of nature in the city in order to provide benefits to residents. This includes features such as street trees, gardens, green roofs, community forests, parks, rivers, canals and wetlands. Economic growth is defined as an increase in economic activity as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Specifically the research was interested in whether investment in GI increases GDP compared to what would have happened without the investment.
Healthy trees, healthy places
Posted on: 8 July 2013
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A report by the Woodland Trust looks at how trees in urban areas can help local authorities deliver on a number of their agendas, especially on climate change adaptation.
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