Measuring the Benefit of Green Infrastructure through the Development of Alternative Policy Scenarios

stormwater;GIS;green infrastructure;Detroit;Natural Resources and Environment

Kasberg, BradfordGrese, Robert ;

University of Michigan

关键词: stormwater;    GIS;    green infrastructure;    Detroit;    Natural Resources and Environment;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/123040/Kasberg_2016Thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

Detroit, Michigan, like other post-industrial cities, has the potential to convert vacant land intogreen infrastructure to support a shrinking population with strained infrastructure by reducingthe overall amount of storm water entering sewer infrastructure. Alternative greeninfrastructure policies were developed that attempt to support what Joan Nassauer defines as;;cues to care” to achieve normative goals that seek to perform, in addition to storm watermanagement benefits, social and ecological benefits. Each of these normative policies resultedin a unique spatial pattern of green infrastructure development within the Cody Rougeneighborhood of Detroit. This study analyzes changes in storm water runoff capture capabilityof the resulting green infrastructure networks created by these alternative green infrastructurepolicies for the Cody Rouge neighborhood. Modest variations were found when comparingstorm water runoff capture of the different policies. This study suggests that normative goalsthat seek to support ecological and social issues are able to be implemented within greeninfrastructure planning and design and that this integrated design may be necessary forshrinking cities to more holistically support its residents that live within highly vacant areas.