Green infrastructure planning: Policy and objectives

Handbook on Green Infrastructure: Planning, Design and Implementation

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 105-123

  Mell, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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