Blue-Green Infrastructure for Flood and Water Quality Management in Southeast Asia: Evidence and Knowledge Gaps.

ABSTRACT: In Southeast Asia, projections of rapid urban growth coupled with high water-related risks call for large investments in infrastructure-including in blue-green infrastructure (BGI) such as forests, parks, or vegetated engineered systems. However, most of the knowledge on BGI is produced in the global North, overlooking the diversity of urban contexts globally. Here, we review the literature on BGI for flood risk mitigation and water quality improvement in Southeast Asian cities to understand the scope of practical knowledge and identify research needs. We searched for evidence of local types of BGI in peer-reviewed and grey literature and assessed the performance of BGI based on hydrological, societal, and environmental metrics. The body of literature on BGI in Southeast Asia is small and

SUBMITTER: Hamel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9012722 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature