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Blue Infrastructure Design

Blue Infrastructure Design is a subfield of climate-responsive urban design that plans and configures natural and engineered urban water systems—such as rivers, wetlands, canals, and stormwater networks—to manage hydrological processes, enhance climate resilience, and generate ecological and social co-benefits.

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213

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130

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Water as an urban heat sink: Blue infrastructure alleviates urban heat island effect in mega-city agglomeration

Yi Lin, Zifeng Wang, C.Y. Jim et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production · 2020 · 194 citations

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Understanding the relationship between urban blue infrastructure and land surface temperature

Caiyan Wu, Junxiang Li, Chunfang Wang et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 2019 · 191 citations

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Blue is the new green – Ecological enhancement of concrete based coastal and marine infrastructure

Ido Sella, Shimrit Perkol-Finkel · Ecological Engineering · 2015 · 175 citations

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Urban resilience efforts must consider social and political forces

Hallie Eakin, Luís Tapia, Marco A. Janssen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · 166 citations · Full text

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Adaptation to climate change using green and blue infrastructure. A database of case studies

Aleksandra Kaźmierczak, Jeremy Carter · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) · 2010 · 136 citations

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Authors

213

  1. DH
    Dagmar Haase

    Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

    3 publications · 123 citations

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  2. EL
    Emma L. Johnston

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    2 publications · 109 citations

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  3. JL
    Johannes Langemeyer

    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

    2 publications · 79 citations

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  4. KA
    Katherine A. Dafforn

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    2 publications · 109 citations

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  5. GE
    Glyn Everett

    University of the West of England, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

130

  1. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    101 citations

  2. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    297 citations

  3. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    11 publications

    511 citations

  4. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

    Leipzig, Germany

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    202 citations

  5. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    75 citations

  6. Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique

    Rennes, France

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    134 citations

  7. Institute of Environmental Engineering

    Zabrze, Poland

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    149 citations

  8. North-West University

    Potchefstroom, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    79 citations

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Venues

  1. Sustainability

    5 publications · 257 citations

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  2. Landscape and Urban Planning

    3 publications · 226 citations

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  3. Land Use Policy

    2 publications · 118 citations

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  4. Ecology and Society

    2 publications · 79 citations

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  5. Ecological Engineering

    2 publications · 196 citations

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