Design, implementation and cost elements of Green Infrastructure projects

By maintaining healthy ecosystems, reconnecting fragmented natural areas and restoring damaged habitats, green infrastructure offers an economically viable and sustainable infrastructure that provides goods and services and by which multiple objectives can be addressed. A strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features can be designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. It incorporates green spaces (or blue if aquatic ecosystems are concerned) and other physical features in terrestrial (including coastal) and marine areas. On land, GI is present in rural and urban settings. The report discusses the initiation of GI project, the barriers and enabling factors, as well as costs and benefits and gives policy recommendations.