Green Infrastructure Basics
A sand dune would be an example of a small-scale or a large-scale green infrastructure project?
What is large-scale?
This term refers to the movement to have fair treatment and involvement of all people, regardless of race, income, or background, in decisions and actions that affect their health and environment.
What is Environmental Justice?
Refers to a state of marginality that permeates northern and southern hemispheres, or in other words communities currently positioned "off the map."
What is Global South?
Cities collect this from homeowners to pay for services like schools and roads.
What are property taxes?
This term describes a garden implemented to manage storm water runoff
This is a primary negative outcome when green infrastructure increases property values in marginalized areas.
What is displacement?
These communities have lived with water for millennia in ways that marry local livelihoods, flood risk management, community governance, and spirituality
Who are Indigenous groups?
This federal agency will sometimes provide grants for green infrastructure, since the US does not have a green infrastructure policy.
What is the EPA?
This is the process where urban greening efforts increase property values and displace low-income residents.
What is gentrification?
This is the process where urban greening efforts increase property values and displace low-income residents.
What is gentrification?
In countries like Bangladesh, GI projects often include this, which supports community resilience by restoring ecosystems while improving livelihoods.
What is mangrove conservation?
This type of government planning helps manage water and land use across multiple cities.
What is regional planning?
This term is associated primarily with international development settings and focuses on conservation, human livelihoods, and community-based development
What is nature-based solution?
Shi advocates integrating this broader concept with green infrastructure to address underlying social inequality.
What is community development?
This agricultural practice, emphasized in Global South GI projects, reduces climate vulnerability by supporting sustainable land use in urban areas.
What is agro-ecology?
This U.S. government agency supports large-scale green infrastructure projects like floodplain restoration and wetland conservation.
What is FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)?
Green infrastructure presents a politically palatable option to replace seawalls with this development
What is a sand dune?
This city has proposed to exercise eminent domain to compel 400 low-income households to leave a food-prone area and convert it to floodable green space
What is Houston?
This rare large-scale urban example hosts fishponds and agriculture, treats a third of the city’s sewage, sequesters carbon, controls fooding, and employs 50,000 people.
What are East Kolkata Wetlands?
The article argues that this kind of fragmented local governance, common in the U.S., makes it difficult for cities to implement coordinated green infrastructure projects.
What is municipal fragmentation?