Futoshi NakamuraEcosystem management and landscape ecology, Hokkaido University, Japan

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Introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries

Explores the preservation and restoration of ecosystems from a catchment perspective

Evaluates green infrastructure from engineering, ecological view, and also from economical perspective

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Concept and synthesis.- Chapter 2: Concept and application of hybrid infrastructure.- Chapter 3: An Economic Analysis of Optimal Hybrid Infrastructure: A Theoretical Approach in a Hydro-Economic Model.- Chapter 4: Flood Management Policy in Shiga Prefecture, Japan: Implementation Approach of a Risk-Based Flood Management System at Catchment Scale.- Chapter 5: Toward social infrastructure: typological idea for evaluating implementation potential of green infrastructure.- Part 2 : Forest ecosystem.- Chapter 6: Riparian Forests and Climate Change: Interactive Zone of Green and Blue Infrastructure.- Chapter 7: Improvement of the flood-reduction function of forests based on their interception evaporation and surface storage capacities.- Chapter 8: Forests for water: A step-by-step guide for payment schemes.- Part 3: River and floodplain ecosystem (including paddy field and other farmlands).- Chapter 9: Wetland Paddy Fields as Green Infrastructure against Flood.- Chapter 10: Change in Floodwater Retention Function of a Paddy Field due to Cultivation Abandonment in a Depopulating Rural Region in Japan.- Chapter 11: Paddy field as a green inflastructure: their ecosystem services and threatening drivers.- Part 4: Wetland ecosystem (including flood-control pond).- Chapter 12: Flood-control basins as green infrastructures: flood-risk reduction, biodiversity conservation and sustainable management in Japan.- Chapter 13: Natural Succession of Wetland Vegetation in a Flood-control Pond Constructed on Abandoned Farmland.- Chapter 14: Biodiversity Conservation through Various Citizen Activities in a Flood Control Basin.- Part 5: Urban and city ecosystem.- Chapter 15: Toward holistic Urban Green Infrastructure Implementation.- Chapter 16: Changes in the Use of Green Spaces by Citizens before and during the First COVID-19 Pandemic: A Big data analysis usingmobile-tracking GPS data in Kanazawa, Japan.- Chapter 17: Land Use Planning as a Green Infrastructure in a Rural Japanese Depopulated Town.- Chapter 16: Towards an Equitable Distribution of Urban Green Spaces for People and Landscapes; An opportunity for Portland's Green Grid.- Part 6: Coast and estuary ecosystem.- Chapter 19: "Effectiveness and Sustainability of Coastal Hybrid Infrastructures for Low-Frequency Large-Scale Disasters.- A Case Study of Coastal Disaster Assessment for a Complex Disaster".- Chapter 20: Challenging a Hybrid between Green and Gray Infrastructure - Coastal Sand-covered Embankments.- Chapter 21: Green Infrastructures in Megacity Jakarta: Current Status and Possibilities of Mangroves for Flood Damage Mitigation.- Chapter 22: Implementation of Japanese Blue Carbon Offset Crediting Projects.- Part 7: Economic evaluation.- Chapter 23: Understanding Preference Differences among Individuals for the Reduction in Flood Risk by Green Infrastructure.- Chapter 24: Assessing Public Preference for Construction of Giant Seawalls Using the Best-Worst Scaling Approach.- Chapter 25: "Coastal communities' preferences of grey, green and hybrid infrastructure against unexpected catastrophes: A case study of Japan".- Chapter 26: Carbon storage and substitution benefits of harvested wood products.- Part 8: Governance.- Chapter 27: Social System in Collaborative Activities for Conserving Coastal Pine Forest in Karatsu City, Kyusyu, Japan.- Chapter 28: Governance for realizing multifunctional floodplain; flood control, agriculture, and biodiversity in Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area, California, USA.- Chapter 29: Analysis of the description of the multifunctionality of farmland in the administrative plans of local municipalities.