Investigations – Strategies – Implementation – Evaluation

Green and blue Infrastructure (GI) is increasingly regarded as prerequisite of a sustainable development of urban and regional areas. On the other hand, urban green and water often is not considered as an important factor to preserve or optimize ecosystem services in daily local decision making. Thus, both trends seem to exist at the same time, the deterioration or even destruction of urban green and water as well as their functions, and the development of new parks and urban/regional green aiming at an improvement of life quality and ecosystem services. We invite researchers and practitioners to contribute to this topic, based on their empirical or practical experience comprising at least one of the following topics:

• Assessment of Ecosystem Services of Urban Green/GI

• Urban Green/GI and Climate Change

• Social, Cultural and Economic Relevance of Urban Green/GI

• New Trends in the Development of Urban Green/GI

• Planning and Governance of Urban Green/GI

• Participatory Approaches in the Development of Urban Green/GI

• Financial Aspects of Management of Urban Green/GI

• Urban rivers – starting point for blue-green development/GI

• Urban water management – chances for green infrastructure/GI

• From roof to streets – blue-green planning strategies in different planning sectors (GI)

Chair: Dietwald Gruehn, Mathias Kaiser