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Establishing the rationale for green infrastructure investment in Indian cities: is the mainstreaming of urban greening an expanding or diminishing reality?

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C. Mell, Ian, Department of Geography & Planning, University of Liverpool, Gordon Stephenson Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZQ, UK·2015·AIMS Environmental Science
DOI 10.3934/environsci.2015.2.134
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Green infrastructure planning in India has the potential to rationalise current development issues relating to economic growth and rapid urban expansion. Independence from the British facilitated progressive shift to an economically driven development based on modernisation and partial-deregulation of infrastructure provision. The impact of this process has been a decoupling of human-environmental approaches to urban planning and reliance on the utilisation of landscape resources beyond their capacity. Utilising a discussion of Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives to urban development, this paper argues that whilst both approaches offer valuable mechanism for growth, an integrated analysis which links them provides a more responsive and effective structure for planning to deliver change. Green infrastructure approaches to urban investment are proposed in this paper to create equilibrium between the difficulties of balancing economic growth with sustainable urban development. Through an evaluation of state and alternative investment drivers this paper proposes that urban greening can form a mainstream framework to facilitate a sustainable approach to urban expansion. The paper concludes by stating that approaching investments in green infrastructure through an understanding of a state-interactions provides scope to plan economic development and ecological sustainably effectively.

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  • Indigenous, local and traditional knowledge in many countries of the Global South (as in the Global North) is essential to providing a core foundation for the relevance and practice of NbS.

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    Section 2.2 advocates including traditional knowledge in Indian development planning, and the Conclusions describe local knowledge and culturally based management as relevant to greener Indian cities. The paper does not establish that indigenous, local and traditional knowledge is an essential foundation for NbS across the Global South and North; its discussion is principally about green infrastructure in India. Page numbers were not provided for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
C. Mell, I., & Department of Geography & Planning, U. O. L.
Venue
AIMS Environmental Science
Publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Published
2015
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
134-153
ISSN
  • 2372-0344 (ISSN-L)
  • 2372-0352
DOI
10.3934/environsci.2015.2.134
OpenAlex
W2050191067
Cited by
19
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 2
FWCI
3.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • AIMS environmental science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Urban Planning and Landscape Design
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Urban Arborization and Environmental Studies
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
Keywords
green infrastructure, urban greening, urban planning, sustainable urban development, economic growth, urban expansion, public investment, India

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