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City greening by rain gardens - costs and benefits Cover

City greening by rain gardens - costs and benefits

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources
Volume 29 (2018): Issue 1 (March 2018)
By: Ewelina Siwiec,  Anne Maren Erlandsen and  Haakon Vennemo  
Open Access
|May 2018

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One of the first rain garden in Poland (Marki).Source: Fundacja Sendzimira
One of the first rain garden in Poland (Marki).Source: Fundacja Sendzimira

The share of parks, green areas and green spaces in the Climcities partner cities in %_

City201420152016
Nowy Sącz1.61.91.9
Siedlce3.33.13.3
Tomaszów Mazowiecki2.42.52.6
Ostrołęka4.34.34.1
Bełchatów2.42.32.2

Rain garden costs and benefits_

CostsBenefits

  • Investment costs

  • Operation and maintenance cost

  • Opportunity cost of land use

  • Avoided damage

  • Water quality control

  • Water quantity control

  • Co-benefits

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/oszn-2018-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2353-8589 | Journal ISSN: 1230-7831
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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 5
Published on: May 25, 2018
Published by: National Research Institute, Institute of Environmental Protection
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
green areas,
rain gardens,
adaptation to climate change,
costs,
benefits,
Poland
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Ecology

© 2018 Ewelina Siwiec, Anne Maren Erlandsen, Haakon Vennemo, published by National Research Institute, Institute of Environmental Protection
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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