Coastal greening of grey infrastructure: An update on the state of the art

Louise B. Firth, Jessica Bone, Aaron Bartholomew, Melanie J. Bishop, Ana Bugnot, Fabio Bulleri, Su Yin Chee, Louw Claassens, Katherine A. Dafforn, Tom P. Fairchild, Alice E. Hall, Mick E. Hanley, Valeriya Komyakova, Anaëlle J. Lemasson, Lynette H.L. Loke, Mariana Mayer-Pinto, Rebecca Morris, Larissa Naylor, Matthew J. Perkins, Sylvain PiochFrancesca Porri, Kathryn A. O'Shaughnessy, Nina Schaefer, Elisabeth A. Strain, Jason D. Toft, Nathan Waltham, Moises Aguilera, Laura Airoldi, Franz Bauer, Paul Brooks, John Burt, Charley Clubley, Jeffery R. Cordell, Free Espinosa, Ally J. Evans, Veronica Farrugia-Drakard, William Froneman, John Griffin, Stephen J. Hawkins, Eliza Heery, Roger J.H. Herbert, Emma Jones, Kenneth M.Y. Leung, Pippa Moore, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Dhritiraj Sengupta, Marcus Sheaves, Stephen Swearer, Richard C. Thompson, Peter Todd, Antony M. Knights

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In the marine environment, greening of grey infrastructure (GGI) is a rapidly growing field that attempts to encourage native marine life to colonise marine artificial structures to enhance biodiversity, thereby promoting ecosystem functioning and hence service provision. By designing multifunctional sea defences, breakwaters, port complexes and offshore renewable energy installations, these structures can yield myriad environmental benefits, in particular, addressing UN SDG 14: Life below water. Although GGI has shown great promise and there is a growing evidence base, there remain many criticisms and knowledge gaps, and some feel that there is scope for GGI to be abused by developers to facilitate harmful development. Given the surge of research in this field in recent years, it is timely to review the literature to provide an update on the state of the art of the field in relation to the many criticisms and identify remaining knowledge gaps. Despite the rapid and significant advances made in this field, there is currently a lack of science and practice outside of academic sectors in the developed world, and there is a collective need for schemes that encourage intersectoral and trans-sectoral research, knowledge exchange and capacity building to optimise GGI in the pursuit of contributing to sustainable development.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)35-67
Número de páginas33
PublicaciónProceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering
Volumen177
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 8 feb. 2024
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