A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits
2009
80
pp.,
The Center for Neighborhood Technology, American Rivers,
2009
This guide distills key considerations involved in assessing the economic merits of green infrastructure practices. It examines the steps necessary to calculate a variety of performance benefits gained by implementing GI strategies and then, where possible, demonstrates simplified illustrative examples that estimate the magnitude and value of these benefits.
Keywords: green infrastructure; multiple benefits; water; energy; air quality; climate change; urban heat island; community livability; habitat improvement; public education; case studies