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Coastal greening of grey infrastructure: an update on the state-of-the-art

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© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved. In the marine environment, greening of grey infrastructure (GGI) is a rapidly growing field that attempts to encourage native marine life to colonize marine artificial structures to enhance biodiversity, thereby promoting ecosystem functioning and hence service provision. By designing multifunctional sea defences, breakwaters, port complexes and off-shore renewable energy installations, these structures can yield myriad environmental benefits, in particular, addressing UN SDG 14: Life below water. Whilst 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 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 transsectoral research, knowledge exchange, and capacity building to optimize GGI in the pursuit of contributing to sustainable development.


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Author(s): Firth LB, Bone J, Bartholomew A, Bishop MJ, Bugnot A, Bulleri F, Chee S-Y, Claassens L, Dafforn KA, Fairchild TP, Hall AE, Hanley ME, Komyakova V, Lemasson AJ, Loke LHL, Mayer-Pinto M, Morris R, Naylor L, Perkins MJ, Pioch S, Porri F, O'Shaughnessy KA, Schaefer N, Strain EA, Toft JD, Waltham N, Aguilera M, Airoldi L, Bauer F, Brooks P, Burt J, Clubley C, Cordell JR, Espinosa F, Evans AJ, Farrugia-Drakard V, Froneman W, Griffin J, Hawkins SJ, Heery E, Herbert RJH, Jones E, Leung KMY, Moore P, Sempere-Valverde J, Sengupta D, Sheaves M, Swearer S, Thompson RC, Todd P, Knights AM

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering

Year: 2024

Volume: 177

Issue: 2

Pages: 35-67

Print publication date: 01/04/2024

Online publication date: 08/02/2024

Acceptance date: 27/12/2023

Date deposited: 08/03/2024

ISSN (print): 1741-7597

ISSN (electronic): 1751-7737

Publisher: ICE Publishing

URL: https://doi.org/10.1680/jmaen.2023.003

DOI: 10.1680/jmaen.2023.003

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/4n3p-b136


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ARIES Doctoral Training Partnership [NE/S007334/1]
Natural Environment Research Council 650 Growing Roots Funding [GR303]

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