Organisateur : GEF BBL Series
Date : Tuesday, January 31th, 2017, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Lieu : 1899 Pennsylvania av (N building)
8th Floor Conference Room
Pour vous inscrire : RSVP (cbarnerias@thegef.org) by 01/27/2017 COB
GEF staff will wait in lobby to escort guests until 12:00pm
Global population in urban areas is burgeoning, and sustainable development and water management are critical to ensuring ecological and human health. As healthy waterways are increasingly valued, and the degradation of these waterways by urban stormwater runoff is better understood, major efforts are underway to restore watershed function globally and across the United States, from the Chesapeake Bay to Lake Tahoe; from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes. Critical to these efforts is an understanding of the role of green infrastructure in urban environments, specifically how these systems may mitigate the effects of urban runoff. This presentation will give an overview of green infrastructure concepts and discuss major cutting edge initiatives in the United States. It will also present examples of research projects being performed at the University of Tennessee to better understand how to sustainably manage stormwater, from small scale observations of green infrastructure function, to watershed scale investigations that identify hotspots of impervious connectivity.
The topic will be introduced by Saliha Dobardzic, Senior Climate Change Specialist at the GEF and discussed by Xiaomei Tan and David Rodgers, Senior Climate Change Specialists at the GEF.