Workstream: Final conference March 31st
Key Resources to support conference
Mainstreaming nature using green infrastructure final conference ALL TALKS AVAILABLE AS VIDEO
Workstream: Improving policy processes and outcomes for GI
Building with Nature Chair of Standards Board 2018-2022
Green Infrastructure Partnership Evaluation
Green Infrastructure Planning Policy Assessment Tool
Improving Multifunctionality of Green Belts
Introducing the Nature Assessment Tool for Urban and Rural Environments NATURE
Introducing The Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool
Strategic Planning Research Project: Improving Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation
Workstream: Key Research on Green Infrastructure: what is the science telling us?
EU Projects on Green Infrastructure
NERC projects and programmes relevant to Green Infrastructure
Other Academic Research on Green Infrastructure
Other Research Council UK projects on Green Infrastructure
Workstream: Policy and Practice on Green Infrastructure: What are the key lessons emerging?
Capturing Green Infrastructure Policy and Practice
Workstream: Understanding our growing environmental vocabulary & how green infrastructure fits in
Improving Multifunctionality of Green Belts
A series of academic papers led by Matt Kirby have focussed on how to improve the multifunctionality of Green Belts in England. Green Belts are core components of green infrastructure networks but this is rarely stated in policy hindering GI and GB benefits.
Starting from a scoping review of the literature (Kirby et al 2023a) a new policy tool for green belt assessment has been created resulting in a model GI policy (Kirby and Scott 2023). A key finding here was the variation across local authorities in the way plans incorporate green belt multifunctionality. Subsequent work has then focussed on ecosystem services with an important PPGIS study to boost the way cultural ecosystem services are utilised in green belt assessment (Kirby et al 2023b). Finally, the use of InVEST model (Kirby et al 2024) has helped to identify high and low spots of ES multifunctionality to improve way green belt releases are designed and delivered. .*Kirby M.G and Zawadzka, J and Scott AJ (2024). This research challenges over simplistic and reductionist arguments about GB as being unproductive land.
*Kirby M.G and Zawadzka, J and Scott AJ (2024) Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning, Ecosystem Services 67, 101620 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101620
*Kirby, M.G., Scott, A.J. and Walsh, C.L. (2023) Translating policy to place: exploring cultural ecosystem services in areas of Green Belt through participatory mapping, Ecosystems and People, 19:1 https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2023.2276752
*Kirby M and Scott AJ (2023) Multifunctional Green Belts: A planning policy assessment of Green Belts wider functions in England, Land Use Policy, 132 106799 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106799
Kirby, M; Scott AJ, Luger, J. & Walsh (2023) Beyond growth management: A review of the wider functions & effects of urban growth management policies, Landscape & Urban Planning 230 104635 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104635
