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© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved. In the marine environment, greening of grey infrastructure (GGI) is a rapidly growing field that attempts to encourage native marine life to colonize marine artificial structures to enhance biodiversity, thereby promoting ecosystem functioning and hence service provision. By designing multifunctional sea defences, breakwaters, port complexes and off-shore renewable energy installations, these structures can yield myriad environmental benefits, in particular, addressing UN SDG 14: Life below water. Whilst GGI has shown great promise and there is a growing evidence base, there remain many criticisms and knowledge gaps, and some feel that there is scope for GGI to be abused by developers to facilitate harmful development. Given the surge of research in this field in recent years, it is timely to review the literature to provide an update update on the state-of-the-art of the field in relation to the many criticisms and identify remaining knowledge gaps. Despite the rapid and significant advances made in this field, there is currently a lack of science and practice outside of academic sectors in the developed world, and there is a collective need for schemes that encourage intersectoral and transsectoral research, knowledge exchange, and capacity building to optimize GGI in the pursuit of contributing to sustainable development.
Author(s): Firth LB, Bone J, Bartholomew A, Bishop MJ, Bugnot A, Bulleri F, Chee S-Y, Claassens L, Dafforn KA, Fairchild TP, Hall AE, Hanley ME, Komyakova V, Lemasson AJ, Loke LHL, Mayer-Pinto M, Morris R, Naylor L, Perkins MJ, Pioch S, Porri F, O'Shaughnessy KA, Schaefer N, Strain EA, Toft JD, Waltham N, Aguilera M, Airoldi L, Bauer F, Brooks P, Burt J, Clubley C, Cordell JR, Espinosa F, Evans AJ, Farrugia-Drakard V, Froneman W, Griffin J, Hawkins SJ, Heery E, Herbert RJH, Jones E, Leung KMY, Moore P, Sempere-Valverde J, Sengupta D, Sheaves M, Swearer S, Thompson RC, Todd P, Knights AM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Maritime Engineering
Year: 2024
Volume: 177
Issue: 2
Pages: 35-67
Print publication date: 01/04/2024
Online publication date: 08/02/2024
Acceptance date: 27/12/2023
Date deposited: 08/03/2024
ISSN (print): 1741-7597
ISSN (electronic): 1751-7737
Publisher: ICE Publishing
URL: https://doi.org/10.1680/jmaen.2023.003
DOI: 10.1680/jmaen.2023.003
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/4n3p-b136
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