Mainstreaming green infrastructure: how to better use the green belt to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies in North East England

绿色基础设施主流化：如何更好地利用绿化带应对英格兰东北部的气候和生物多样性紧急情况

• 批准号: 2434501
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2434501
• 关键词: Mainstreaming; green; infrastructure; how; better

There is considerable public & policy attention around the optimal use for green belts (GB). This is polarised between those who see GB's purpose simply as preventing urban sprawl and those who see GB as potential sites to meet housing need through careful and selective GB releases. A further dimension relates to GB as green infrastructure, stressing its potential for nature-based solutions. It is this hidden and neglected dimension that this PhD proposal is built upon. Specifically, how GB can be made more "environmentally productive" as a core component of a green infrastructure network. Here potentialpolicy "hooks" arise from the convergence of the UK climate emergency, severe and ongoing natural capital/biodiversity declines and health and well-being concerns. This work builds on existing NERC research undertaken by Scott on mainstreaming green infrastructure1 and work by Walsh on valuing greeninfrastructure and alternative business models for delivering green infrastructure in cities2 and NEENP's work on rethinking our peri- urban spaces. This PhD will involve working primarily in North East England GB but with application across UK and globally to:-1. Undertake a literature and policy review of green belt policy and impacts globally with particularrelevance to the role of environmental innovation.2. Undertake a policy assessment of extant and proposed green belt policies across the North Eastarea and the impact of national/international policies and guidance.3. Identify and prepare a natural capital assessment of the north east England green belt, drawing uponthe latest approaches and providing a critique of these (currently no systematic assessment of green beltvalue has been undertaken in the UK)4. Identify suitable land uses and delivery mechanisms that can help address the climate andbiodiversity and health emergencies as well as deliver other ecosystem service benefits5. Identify, secure and test 2-3 pilot areas (including benchmark data and indicators) to measureprogress and, if appropriate, model a range of scenarios e.g. flood risk; woodland cover6. Propose new green belt policies and principles to show how environmental value can be betteridentified, captured and delivered to help respond to climate, health and biodiversity emergencies

有相当多的公众和政策的关注周围的最佳使用绿色带（GB）。这是两极分化之间的人认为GB的目的只是为了防止城市扩张和那些谁认为GB作为潜在的网站，以满足住房需求，通过仔细和选择性的GB释放。另一个方面涉及GB作为绿色基础设施，强调其基于自然的解决方案的潜力。正是这个隐藏的和被忽视的维度，这个博士学位的建议是建立在。具体而言，如何使GB作为绿色基础设施网络的核心组成部分更具“环保生产力”。在这里，潜在的政策“挂钩”来自英国气候紧急情况，严重和持续的自然资本/生物多样性下降以及健康和福祉问题的融合。这项工作建立在现有的NERC的研究进行斯科特主流化绿色基础设施1和工作沃尔什的价值绿色基础设施和替代商业模式提供绿色基础设施的城市2和NEENP的工作重新思考我们的城市空间。这个博士将涉及主要在英国东北部工作，但在英国和全球范围内的应用程序：-1。对绿色带政策及其全球影响进行文献和政策审查，尤其是与环境创新的作用相关的影响。2.对整个东北地区现有的和拟议的绿色带政策以及国家/国际政策和指导的影响进行政策评估。确定和准备英格兰东北部绿色带的自然资本评估，借鉴最新的方法，并提供对这些方法的评论（目前英国还没有对绿色带价值进行系统评估）4.确定合适的土地用途和交付机制，以帮助应对气候和生物多样性以及卫生紧急情况，并提供其他生态系统服务效益5。确定、保护和测试2-3个试点地区（包括基准数据和指标），以衡量进展，并在适当情况下模拟一系列情景，例如洪水风险;林地覆盖率6。提出新的绿色带政策和原则，以表明如何更好地识别、获取和提供环境价值，以帮助应对气候、健康和生物多样性紧急情况