Abstract
Green infrastructure is used in planning and policy domains as an expression to draw attention to the essential place of green spaces and ecosystems in cities and populated regions. The term attempts to draw on the idea that infrastructure assets are crucial to human life, especially urban life, in the ways they create orderly flows and movements, make resources available, enhance productivity, and connect places efficiently. Moreover, green infrastructure, and its deployment of protected habitats and nurtured ecosystems as assets, is seen to make cities and regions more efficient and sustainably prosperous through the provision of common green spaces and the generation of shared ecological services. Bundling the natural environment into the category of green infrastructure, however, can be criticized for reducing elements of the natural environment to a status beneath that of humans, or as having purpose only related to human need. Discussion of the Los Angeles River is used to investigate this positioning.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology |
| Editors | Douglas Richardson, Noel Castree, Michael F. Goodchild, Audrey Kobayashi, Weidong Liu, Richard A. Marston |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Wiley & Sons |
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781118786352 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- land use
- urban
- urban ecology (sociology)
- ecosystems
- sustainability
