Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation : Function, Implementation and Governance / edited by Futoshi Nakamura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakamura, Futoshi, Editor.

Contributor:

Nakamura, Futoshi, editor.

Series:

Ecological Research Monographs, 2191-0715

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotic communities.

Landscape ecology.

Environmental economics.

Forests and forestry.

Bioclimatology.

Ecosystems.

Landscape Ecology.

Environmental Economics.

Forestry.

Climate Change Ecology.

Local Subjects:

Ecosystems.

Landscape Ecology.

Environmental Economics.

Forestry.

Climate Change Ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 506 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries where lands are geologically fragile and climatologically susceptible to climate change. It proposes green infrastructure as an adaptation strategy for climate change and biodiversity conservation. In the face of climate change, dams, levees and floodways built as disaster prevention facilities do not sufficiently function against extraordinary events such as mega-floods and tsunami disasters. To prevent those disasters and loss of biodiversity in various ecosystems, we should shift from conventional hard measures to more adaptive strategies using various functions that natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide. Green infrastructure is an interconnected network of waterways, wetlands, woodlands, wildlife habitats and other natural areas that support native species, maintain natural ecological processes, sustain air and water resources and contribute to the health and quality of life for communities and people. Green infrastructure has mainly been discussed from adaptation strategy perspectives in cities and urban areas. However, to protect cities, which are generally situated at downstream lower elevations, we explore the preservation and restoration of forests at headwater basins and wetlands along rivers from a catchment perspective. In addition, the quantitative examination of flood risk, biodiversity, and social-economic benefits described in this book brings new perspectives to the discussion. The aim of this book is to accelerate the transformative changes from gray-based adaptation strategies to green- or hybrid-based strategies to adapt to climate change. The book provides essential information on the structure, function, and maintenance of green infrastructure for scientists, university students, government officers, and practitioners.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part 1: Concept and synthesis

Chapter 2: Concept and application of hybrid infrastructure

Chapter 3: An Economic Analysis of Optimal Hybrid Infrastructure: A Theoretical Approach in a Hydro-Economic Model

Chapter 4: Flood Management Policy in Shiga Prefecture, Japan: Implementation Approach of a Risk-Based Flood Management System at Catchment Scale

Chapter 5: Toward social infrastructure: typological idea for evaluating implementation potential of green infrastructure

Part 2 : Forest ecosystem

Chapter 6: Riparian Forests and Climate Change: Interactive Zone of Green and Blue Infrastructure

Chapter 7: Improvement of the flood-reduction function of forests based on their interception evaporation and surface storage capacities

Chapter 8: Forests for water: A step-by-step guide for payment schemes

Part 3: River and floodplain ecosystem (including paddy field and other farmlands)

Chapter 9: Wetland Paddy Fields as Green Infrastructure against Flood

Chapter 10: Change in Floodwater Retention Function of a Paddy Field due to Cultivation Abandonment in a Depopulating Rural Region in Japan

Chapter 11: Paddy field as a green inflastructure: their ecosystem services and threatening drivers

Part 4: Wetland ecosystem (including flood-control pond)

Chapter 12: Flood-control basins as green infrastructures: flood-risk reduction, biodiversity conservation and sustainable management in Japan

Chapter 13: Natural Succession of Wetland Vegetation in a Flood-control Pond Constructed on Abandoned Farmland

Chapter 14: Biodiversity Conservation through Various Citizen Activities in a Flood Control Basin

Part 5: Urban and city ecosystem

Chapter 15: Toward holistic Urban Green Infrastructure Implementation

Chapter 16: Changes in the Use of Green Spaces by Citizens before and during the First COVID-19 Pandemic: A Big data analysis usingmobile-tracking GPS data in Kanazawa, Japan

Chapter 17: Land Use Planning as a Green Infrastructure in a Rural Japanese Depopulated Town

Chapter 16: Towards an Equitable Distribution of Urban Green Spaces for People and Landscapes; An opportunity for Portland's Green Grid

Part 6: Coast and estuary ecosystem

Chapter 19: "Effectiveness and Sustainability of Coastal Hybrid Infrastructures for Low-Frequency Large-Scale Disasters

A Case Study of Coastal Disaster Assessment for a Complex Disaster"

Chapter 20: Challenging a Hybrid between Green and Gray Infrastructure – Coastal Sand-covered Embankments

Chapter 21: Green Infrastructures in Megacity Jakarta: Current Status and Possibilities of Mangroves for Flood Damage Mitigation

Chapter 22: Implementation of Japanese Blue Carbon Offset Crediting Projects

Part 7: Economic evaluation

Chapter 23: Understanding Preference Differences among Individuals for the Reduction in Flood Risk by Green Infrastructure

Chapter 24: Assessing Public Preference for Construction of Giant Seawalls Using the Best–Worst Scaling Approach

Chapter 25: "Coastal communities’ preferences of grey, green and hybrid infrastructure against unexpected catastrophes: A case study of Japan"

Chapter 26: Carbon storage and substitution benefits of harvested wood products

Part 8: Governance

Chapter 27: Social System in Collaborative Activities for Conserving Coastal Pine Forest in Karatsu City, Kyusyu, Japan

Chapter 28: Governance for realizing multifunctional floodplain; flood control, agriculture, and biodiversity in Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, California, USA

Chapter 29: Analysis of the description of the multifunctionality of farmland in the administrative plans of local municipalities.

Notes:

Includes index

ISBN:

981-16-6791-8

OCLC:

1295094962