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Introduction

Green infrastructure (GI) is a resilient approach to managing wet weather threats to infrastructure, public health, and environmental systems. Instead of carrying water inputs such as precipitation and snowmelt [1] away from development, it ensnares runoff as close as it can to its source [2, 3]. It does this by absorbing, storing, or filtering water by using soil, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes. GI is a key component of low impact development (LID) [4, 5] and can be used independently of, or in concurrence with, conventional water management systems (e.g., gray infrastructure) such as single purpose pipe drainage [1, 2]. When facing uncertainty, GI can also be referred to as adaptive management (AM). This concept has been created to support managers when developing new metrics in highly connected systems [4].

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there are many identifiable GI practices. These practices are of two types, natural and...

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  1. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Rachel Wood-Ponce & Anahita Khojandi

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jon Hathaway

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Wood-Ponce, R., Khojandi, A., Hathaway, J. (2023). Optimization of Green Infrastructure. In: Pardalos, P.M., Prokopyev, O.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Optimization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54621-2_732-1

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