Blue green solutions
Blue Green Solutions is a phrase used to describe urban design solutions that incorporate natural systems into urban areas to mitigate increased pressure on essential resources that urbanisation can bring such as: food and water, increased air pollution due to transportation, loss of biodiversity, increased risk of ill health and so on. Urban pressures such as air and water pollution, noise, flood risk, drought, urban heat island effect and resource use can also have direct impacts on the health and comfort of those living in ciy regions.
These issues are likely to exacerbated by climate change through extreme weather events such as flooding, droughts and heat waves.
Examples of blue green solutions include; green roofs, roof gardens, tree pits, swales, urban wetlands, storm water retention and rainwater harvesting and so on.
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