Abstract
Mainstreaming Blue Green Infrastructure (BGI) presents significant opportunities to address multifaceted urban problems, from climate change to inequality. However, this task faces entrenched barriers, in particular relating to politico-institutional challenges. Drawing on insights from international debates on sustainable urbanization and case study research conducted in Argentina and Australia, this entry provides an overview of the barriers, blind spots, and facilitators to advancing a BGI agenda in both Global North and Global South contexts.
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We would like to acknowledge Prof. Sara Bice who originally planned to co-author this entry with us, though circumstances outside of her control meant that she was unable to contribute as an author. We greatly appreciate her contribution as a peer reviewer of our draft and support of this work.
Part of the research carried out in Argentina to inform this chapter received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 867564 for the CONEXUS project.
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Henderson, H., Bush, J., Kozak, D. (2022). Mainstreaming Blue Green Infrastructure in Cities: Barriers, Blind Spots, and Facilitators. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_270
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