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Title: Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Landscapes: Integrating Green Infrastructure for Sustainable City Planning
Authors: Aadyan Rana
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MLA 8 Rana, Aadyan. "Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Landscapes: Integrating Green Infrastructure for Sustainable City Planning." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 12, Dec. 2024, pp. 6347-6361, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i12.047. Accessed Dec. 2024. APA 6 Rana, A. (2024, December). Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Landscapes: Integrating Green Infrastructure for Sustainable City Planning. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 9(12), 6347-6361. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i12.047 Chicago Rana, Aadyan. "Biodiversity Conservation in Urban Landscapes: Integrating Green Infrastructure for Sustainable City Planning." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 12 (December 2024), 6347-6361. Accessed December, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i12.047.
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ABSTRACT: Infrastructure is at the core of efforts of G20 nations to boost the structure of development across the world to make it sustainable and cut down on its ill effects. Infrastructure may affect biodiversity in different ways, such as direct loss of habitat in the footprint of current infrastructure, deterioration and fragmentation of natural resources, and changes in ecosystem. The strategy of “green infrastructure (GI)” has been provided with the capability to manage those challenges and its application is a way to recover natural processes and patterns, and reduce the flows of material and energy. Due to lack of environmental efforts, green infrastructural development overlooks environmental services and global biodiversity. It is important for sustainable construction to have green infrastructure and green buildings in recent projects of urban development. In urban landscapes, biodiversity can improve health and governments should empower, educate, and promote builders/developers and communities for the integration of green infrastructure to ensure sustainable city planning. Efforts related to urban planning for the conservation of biodiversity have usually been focused on building protected corridors and natural landscapes. Despite having the importance of green infrastructure, it is evident that nearby commercial areas and neighbourhoods have least effects on conserved regions. The biological integrity of eco-friendly infrastructure can be degraded by invasive stormwater runoffs. This study discusses challenges in integration of GI for sustainable urban planning and discusses the future directions for governments and researchers to come up with a systematic approach, which makes management and design of urban landscapes to be complying with green infrastructure. Residents, researchers, developers, and planners play a vital role in traditional development to be more compatible with green building.

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