Urban Long Term Ecological Research and Green Infrastructure Projects

Financing Green Urban Infrastructure

This paper presents an overview of practices and challenges related to financing green sustainable cities. Cities are essential actors in stimulating green infrastructure; and urban finance is one of the promising ways in which this can be achieved. Cities are key investors in infrastructure with green potential, such as buildings, transport, water and waste. Their main revenue sources, such as...

Long term ecological research and information management

The US Long Term Ecological Research Program

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Ecological Informatics: a Long-Term Ecological Research Perspective

Scientists within the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network have provided leadership in ecological informatics since the inception of LTER in 1980. The success of LTER, where research projects span wide temporal and spatial scales, depends on the quality and longevity of the data collected. Scientists have devised data collection, data entry, data access, QA/QC and archiving strategies f...

Central Arizona – Phoenix Long - Term Ecological Research ( CAP LTER ) Urban Ecology and Sustainability