Dear Colleagues,

With careful planning and governance, blue and green infrastructure (BGI) can help our cities adapt to climate change and improve resilience to extreme weather events, enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services, and improve public health and wellbeing. Although BGI is promoted for its multifunctionality, many projects tend to focus on a particular benefit, such as stormwater abatement, rather than the full suite of socio-economic and environmental benefits. The provision of urban blue and green infrastructure should be an integral part of the creation of sustainable communities and, alongside strategic planning by local governments, non-state actors such as NGOs, active citizens, social enterprises, and local businesses, can all contribute to the planning process, thereby ensuring that true multifunctionality is achieved. This Special Issue seeks to compile examples of innovative strategies that successfully combine top-down and bottom-up approaches to the strategic planning of multifunctional urban blue and green infrastructure, and that can potentially be applied to other cities and communities around the world.

We invite you to submit articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Incorporating community perspectives into urban blue and green infrastructure planning methodologies
• Strategies for engaging diverse stakeholders in urban blue and green infrastructure governance
• Innovative financial models for urban blue and green infrastructure creation and management
• Socio-cultural value mapping of urban blue and green infrastructure
• Equity planning of urban blue and green infrastructure

Dr. Sarah Milliken
Dr. Benz Kotzen
Guest Editors

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• multifunctional urban blue and green infrastructure
• socio-economic benefits
• sustainable communities
• community perspectives
• stakeholder engagement
• innovative financial models
• socio-cultural value mapping
• equity planning