Assessing the economic and environmental benefits of blue-green infrastructure to increase urban resilience to climate change

• Date: 2025
• Main Authors: Kravchenko, Maryna, Tkachenko, Tetiana, Voloshkina, Olena, Vasylenko, Lesya, Sviatohorov, Illia
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture 2025
• Subjects: blue-green infrastructure; green coatings; green facades; green walls; rain garden; climate change mitigation; climate change adaptation; cost analysis
• Online Access: https://es-journal.in.ua/article/view/335822
• Journal Title: Environmental safety and natural resources

Climate change and intensive urbanisation pose large-scale challenges to engineering infrastructure and the livelihoods of the population in cities, in particular in the form of floods, soil degradation, droughts and increased pollution. The study focuses on the use of blue-green infrastructure (BGI...