LIVING WATER SMART IN BRITISH COLUMBIA: “I always had issues with the discipline of ecology as taught in the university system where it was very much mechanistic, Cartesian dualism of mind and body and human and nature,” stated Dr. Zbigniew Grabowski, principal author of ‘What is green infrastructure? A study of definitions in US city planning’
“My research is the first systematic review of the use and definition of the green infrastructure concept in local government plans in the US. Many plans fail to explicitly define green infrastructure. How green infrastructure is defined guides the types of projects that local governments implement, with enduring impacts to people and the urban environment. We need a new paradigm that reimagines green infrastructure to address root causes of water quality issues. But most of the academic systems are not really lined up with deep transformative action,” stated Zbigniew Grabowski.