A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits
January 01, 2009
80 pp.
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The Center for Neighborhood Technology, American Rivers
This guide distills key considerations involved in assessing the economic merits of green infrastructure practices. It examines the steps necessary to calculate a variety of performance benefits gained by implementing GI strategies and then, where possible, demonstrates simplified illustrative examples that estimate the magnitude and value of these benefits.
Keywords: green infrastructure; multiple benefits; water; energy; air quality; climate change; urban heat island; community livability; habitat improvement; public education; case studies