About the Green Infrastructure Management Manual (GIMM)
Green Infrastructure Management Manual (GIMM) is designed to provide asset stewards with the knowledge, tools, and frameworks needed to include Green Infrastructure (GI) in your strategic, asset, and financial management planning.
The manual provides best-practice guidance on a range of GI assets, including street trees, green roofs and walls, parks and gardens, urban forests, community gardens, living shorelines, hybrid reefs, seagrasses, saltmarshes, mangroves, and water-sensitive urban design features such as constructed wetlands, bioswales, and rain gardens.
Guidance is provided on valuation and condition assessment methodologies; co-benefits; service provision; demand management; lifecycle analysis; risk assessments; long-term strategic and financial management planning; costs; threats; case studies; decision tools and templates.
This Manual is supported by an online training course on GI Asset Management with an industry recognised micro-credential.
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