Investigating Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) Planning and Implementation to Improve Stormwater Management Resilience of Cities in India: Case of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Urbanization challenges and development pressures in Indian cities have impacted the quality of urban green spaces, water bodies and have resulted in increased impermeable surfaces leading to challenges in urban drainage, stormwater management and flooding occurrences. Likewise, lack of green open spaces and urban greenery also lead to increased urban heat phenomenon and impact human well-being. This research aims to develop scientific knowledge and understanding on key aspects essential to actually design, plan and implement BGI in Indian cities such as Mumbai and, undertake an empirical study to attain geospatial study on BGI networks in select study areas in the city-region of Mumbai in India. Alongside this the research will also attain pertinent knowledge on stakeholder and policy perspectives to formulate a realistic planning, policy and implementation framework that can act as a pilot to scale and replicate across other parts of the city to improve the prevalence of BGI. can therefore serve example for similar contexts in other Indian cities and developing countries alike.