Our Dear Green Place: A multi-benefit place approach to designing and delivering blue-green infrastructure

Often environmental improvements or interventions are seen not only as a ‘nice to have’ but often as a negative drain on resources on a capital and revenue front. With Scotland one of the worst countries in the world for biodiversity loss, and the trend in climatic events, there needs to be a concerted drive to ensure we protect, improve and use, nature to it’s best effect. Place making and community wealth building presents a more progressive and cohesive model that allows multiple benefits to be built around interventions. We will present on Green Action Trust’s role in the Central Scotland Green Network and also on a couple of ambitious collaborative projects we are leading on: The Leven Programme and another, one of many, emerging opportunities in Glasgow. We will show that collaboration is key to transformational change and that nature and the environment we live in is not only critical for biodiversity, but for inclusive sustainable growth and our health and wellbeing.

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