Green Infrastructure

Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities

Those engaged in land conservation and management have increasingly come to envision and make use of a process that connects environmental, social and economic health: green infrastructure. For the landscape designer, conservation-minded planner and concerned citizen, The Conservation Fund publication Green Infrastructure: Linking Lands and Communities by Mark Benedict and Ed McMahon presents principles and practices to link landscapes and communities across the country.

Free Download: Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century

Green Infrastructure: Smart Conservation for the 21st Century takes readers from the origins and history of green infrastructure to its implementation and benefits today- demonstrating how green infrastructure plans can allow for both future growth and the protection of significant natural resources.

Free Download: Virginia Green Infrastructure Scoping Study

Advancing Strategic Conservation in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Using a Green Infrastructure Approach to Conserving and Managing the Commonwealth's Natural Areas, Working Landscapes, Open Spaces, and Other Critical Resources.
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