BwN article features in TCPA journal special edition: Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure

In the May 2019 edition of the Town and Country Planning Association journal, guest editor Professor Alister Scott looks at ways to mainstream green infrastructure through the planning system.

Using case studies from around the world, this special edition of the TCPA monthly journal explores academic, policy and practice articles to signpost how green infrastructure can be better configured, communicated and employed to deliver responsible placemaking.

In his foreword, Professor Scott, Chairperson of the Building with Nature Standards Board and a leading researcher in green infrastructure policy and practice, argues that the movement towards widespread acceptance of nature-based solutions is stuck in a rudimentary phase, noting that there is still 'widespread resistance to making things happen on the ground'.

This edition looks at the reasons why the movement towards widespread green infrastructure has stalled and how we might start to address these fundamental weaknesses through the planning system.

Our article (2019, pp. 161-165) explains how the Building with Nature framework was developed as an aid to specifying what is meant by, and consequently delivering, high-quality green infrastructure.