Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning

Download or read book Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning written by Israa H. Mahmoud and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes. This book provides insights on analytical methods, planning strategies and shared governance tools for successfully integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the urban planning practice. The selected contributions present real-life application cases, in which the mainstreaming of NBS are investigated according to two main challenges: the planning and designing of physical and spatial integration of NBS in cities on one side, and the implementation of suitable shared governance models and co-creation pathways on the other. Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.