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    Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation Function, Implementation and Governance /

    Published 2022
    Table of 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.…”
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