Overcoming barriers to Blue Green infrastructure through multiple benefit evaluation

Approaches to flood and water management approaches that centre on ‘living with and making space for water’ are increasingly adopted internationally to better integrate the water cycle with urban design and development needs. Nonetheless, widespread implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) utilising forms of Blue-Green infrastucture is currently hampered by barriers that impede uptake and innovation. This includes uncertainties regarding hydrological performance and service delivery; funding, adoption and maintenance, and; lack of confidence that communities and decision makers will accept, support, and take ownership of BGI (Thorne et al., 2015)