Management Plans for Infrastructure and Resources

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Infrastructure [7]

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Plan [8]

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Management Plans for Green Infrastructure

In general, resource management plans can cover a wide variety of plan and resource types, including human resources, land use, and others. Local government plans that pertain to infrastructure can include:

Liquid Waste management plan
Solid Waste management plan
Community energy plan
Drinking Water management plan

In addition to energy and drinking water, solid waste and wastewater can all be viewed as resources. Plans, such as those listed above, can therefore all be approached from a resource management perspective.

Integrated Resource Recovery (IRR) [10] is an approach that can complement, and potentially even transform, traditional planning and design of infrastructure, and has the potential to result in reduced emissions and local government operation costs, as well as other benefits.

Complimentary Measures include:

Green Infrastructure Policy [11]

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Management Plan Elements

Resource management plans can set the direction for infrastructure development and therefore have a significant influence on the emissions that result from that infrastructure.

To plan for low-carbon infrastructure, development of a resource management plan can include these elements:

Define energy, emissions and sustainability goals, objectives and targets as clearly as possible (this could also be done as part of a Green Infrastructure Policy)
Decision making rationales that are linked with the above goals and objectives
Consideration of zero waste principles
Recognizing the economic value of all resources
Consideration of water-centric management or watershed-scale planning
Identification of linkages with other infrastructure systems, and opportunities for integration of different systems and resources including waste materials, water, and energy
Strong demand management where appropriate
Integration and/or harmonization with other plans
A monitoring plan that includes key sustainability and emissions indicators

These planning elements will help to ensure that infrastructure and resource management solutions address emissions in all key decisions, and as many other sustainability objectives as possible.

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