Green Infrastructures for Urban Water System: Balance between Cities and Nature

摘要: Urban water systems face severe challenges such as urbanisation, population growth and climate change. Traditional technical solutions, i.e., pipe-based, grey infrastructure, have a single purpose are proven to be unsustainable compared multi-purpose nature-based solutions. Green Infrastructure encompasses on-site stormwater management practices, which, in contrast the centralised often decentralised. Technologies green roofs, walls, trees, infiltration trenches, wetlands, rainwater harvesting permeable pavements exhibit multi-functionality. They capable of reducing runoff, retaining landscape, preserving natural balance, enhancing local resilience also delivering ecological, social community services. Creating multi-functional, multiple-benefit systems, however, warrants multidisciplinary approaches involving landscape architects, urban planners, engineers more successfully create balance between cities nature. This Special Issue aims bridge this research gap by collecting recent opportunities from up watershed scale.