Green Infrastructure Planning Guidelines for Coastal Georgia
This guide is addressing GI at the landscape scale; with the process for identifying, prioritizing, conserving, and managing systems (e.g. wetlands, riparian zones, natural areas, working farms & forests)
These guidelines, and the related Story Map and supporting GIS tools, discuss GI at the landscape scale and the resulting benefits; it looks at scale, ten principles, key design elements, and the "nodes" and "linkage" concept. Included in the discussion are:
- Smart Growth
- Smart Conservation
- Transportation
- Sustainable Forest Management
- Urban Forestry
- Regional Greenways
Authors
Coastal Regional Commission
Coastal Regional Commission
Date Published
2014
2014
Publisher
Coastal Regional Commission
Darien, GA (US)
Attachments and Links
Click here to download article as a PDF.
Resource Format
Model Project/Program
Model Project/Program
Sub-Topics
Infrastructure (green)
Infrastructure (green)
State(s)/Region(s)
Georgia
Georgia
Keywords
Landscape scale, Coastal, xGIwatershed, Nodes, Green infrastructure, Linkage
Landscape scale, Coastal, xGIwatershed, Nodes, Green infrastructure, Linkage
Indexed By
UFS - drh
UFS - drh
