Journal article
Measuring the flow: green infrastructure grows in Brooklyn
Current opinion in environmental sustainability, v 17
01 Dec 2015
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
A project underway in Brooklyn, New York exemplifies the investment of many US cities in 'green infrastructure' - combinations of technologies and vegetated areas that absorb and slow down the flow of stormwater from urban surfaces. The participants in this project include representatives of city agencies, academic institutions, and not-for-profit organizations, each with distinct but overlapping objectives. The agency partner is motivated primarily by regulatory and budgetary requirements; the university partners, primarily by the needs and prerogatives of academic research. To date, the result has been a collaboration that marshals university expertise for both instrumental and conceptual ends, i.e., it combines applied and fundamental research in a manner that aligns reasonably well with the missions of all of the collaborators.
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- Title
- Measuring the flow: green infrastructure grows in Brooklyn
- Creators
- Srinivasan Rangarajan - New York City Department of Environmental ProtectionDeborah Marton - New York Restoration ProjectFranco Montalto - Drexel UniversityZhongqi (Joshua) Cheng - Brooklyn CollegeGeorge Smith - City College of New York
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in environmental sustainability, v 17
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- New York City Department of Environmental Protection
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering; Center for Public Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000366334300006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84943643798
- Other Identifier
- 991019168810304721
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Environmental Sciences
- Green & Sustainable Science & Technology