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Georgetown Climate Center Green Infrastructure Toolkit
Legal, policy and design guidance for scaling green infrastructure
Addresses
Green Infrastructure
- Cost
- Free to use
- Proprietary-Free
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Language
- —
- Updated
- 2024
You provide
- Local policy and regulatory context
You get
- Best-practice examples
- Policy and legal options for scaling green infrastructure
Overview
The Georgetown Climate Center’s Green Infrastructure Toolkit collects best practices from U.S. cities for planning and scaling green infrastructure such as rain gardens, green roofs and bioswales, with a focus on the policy and legal tools local governments can use.
Key features
- Case examples from cities across the U.S.
- A “Getting Started” guide to pilot projects
- A “Scaling Up” section on legal and policy tools
- Free to read online
Who it’s for
Local government staff and planners designing programmes and ordinances for green infrastructure.
Getting started
Open the toolkit and begin with its introduction.