Inspiration Card
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Municipal Strategy & Planning
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Knowledge & Awarness | Political Commitment | Organisation | Perceived Costs & Benefits | Social & Environmental Justice |
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The Blue Green Factor (BGF) is a factor-based policy instrument to ensure and maintain desired levels of green and blue in new development projects. As a non-economic valuation method, it scores the relative importance of different green or blue elements at a given site through assessing the ratio of the ecologically effective surface area as a factor of the total land area. This instrument allows developers and designers the freedom to decide how green or blue elements should be incorporated in the respective plans and, at the same time, can be used as evaluation criteria in public procurement or in the distribution of land.
UNaLab Stories: Stavanger BGF
Stavanger has already established a blue-green factor to account for green spaces in urban planning. The city aims to upgrade and adapt this to improve its effectiveness. The following ideas have been discussed: