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Adaptation and Retrofitting – Using green space to help cities become ‘future ready’ Tom Butterworth Andy Follis

At a glance Adaptation and Retrofitting – Using green space to help cities become ‘future ready’ — Introductions — Aims for the workshop — Using GI to help cities adapt — Identifying challenges and opportunities 2 — Feedback

Introductions 3

The aim the workshop — Retrofitting green infrastructure into urban areas – challenges and opportunities — Identify key opportunities and challenges to embedding and retrofitting green infrastructure in existing urban areas 4 — Identifying key actions needed for embedding green infrastructure into cities in Scotland.

At a glance Green Infrastructure Green Infrastructure or blue- green infrastructure 5 Image from Wikipedia

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— International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme - Global Change http://www.igbp.net/globalchange/greatacceleration.4.1b8ae20512db692f2a680001630.html

Part of the solution - multi- functional use of land

At a glance Large and small 11

Workshop 2 12

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Question 1 Identify key opportunities and challenges to embedding and retrofitting green infrastructure in existing urban areas — What is stopping GI being embedded in all our towns and cities? — Where are the greatest 14 opportunities for embedding GI?

At a glance Challenges and Opportunities in terms of — Policy — Strategy — Budget — Governance 15 — Creation of green infrastructure — Monitoring and management

Question 2 Identifying key actions needed for embedding green infrastructure into cities in Scotland. — What are the key actions needed for embedding green infrastructure into towns and cities in Scotland? 16 — Who — What — When

At a glance What are the key actions (who, what, when) in terms of: — Policy — Strategy — Budget — Governance 17 — creation of green infrastructure — Monitoring and management

Adaptation and Retrofitting – Using green space to help cities become ‘future ready’ Tom Butterworth Andy Follis