Grey-green infrastructure as an explicit strategy for climate risk mitigation

If such an approach, based on ‘nature-based solutions’ deeply integrated into planning were to be adopted on a national level, it would be an impetus for diverse stakeholder groups and different constituencies to find a common ground and help reduce acrimony in the political debates.
The Boeri Studio building is a vertical forest, designed by Stefano Boeri, Gaianandrea Barreca, and Giovanni La Varra, and located in Milan, Italy.
The negative impacts of our actions on the natural environment through resource extraction (oil, gas, mining) or massive infrastructure projects (dams, pipelines, transmission corridors, highways, and urban developments) are well recognized. However, the natural environment is both resilient and has...

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