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when devising plans, to take into account the needs of the people who are, or will
be, resident in the area. The overall objective/goal should be to provide a better
place for living. Urban planners are well aware of the bene
ts that dwellers in urban
areas gain from vegetation. For vegetation to continue providing those bene
ts, it
has to have a reliable water supply.
To conclude, it is time to stop seeing the bene
ts brought by vegetation as
removed/separate from conventional urban settlements and to rethink the entire
urban planning paradigm with these bene
ts embedded at their core.
Keywords and De
nitions
Multiple-use water
services
The project under the European Institute of Innovation
and Technology
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s Climate Knowledge and Innovation
Community to
enhance the synergy of urban blue
(water) and green (vegetated) systems and provide
effective, multifunctional Blue Green solutions to support
urban adaptation to future climatic changes
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Blue services
Flood protection, water supply (for irrigation, drinking
water, land subsidence control), recreational water, and
thermal energy collection, transport and storage, space
for living and working on or above water, landscaping,
habitat for aquatic and terrestrial species and cultural
services (physical health, aesthetics, spiritual), climate
regulation (equitable climate), detoxi
-
cation of water (pollution control) and hazard regulation
cation and purifi-
Climate change
Change in global or regional climate patterns, attributed
largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon
dioxide produced by fossil fuel use
Green services
Parks and recreation grounds, brown-
eld remediation
sites, woodlands, gardens, churchyards and green corri-
dors, trees and standing vegetation (food and timber),
wild species diversity, regulating (detoxi
cation) and
cultural services (physical health, aesthetics, spiritual) in
addition to their natural ability to improve the delivery of
climate-related services
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