Kronenberg, J., Andersson, E., Barton, D.N., Borgstrom, S.T., Langemeyer, J., Bjorklund, T., Haase, D., Kennedy, C., Koprowska, K., Laszkiewicz, E., McPhearson, T., Stange, E.E. & Wolff, M. 2021. The thorny path toward greening: Unintended consequences, trade-offs, and constraints in green and blue infrastructure planning, implementation, and management. Ecology and Society 26(2), 36.
Urban green and blue space interventions may bring about unintended consequences, involving trade-offs between the different land uses, and indeed, between the needs of different urban inhabitants, land users, and owners. Such trade-offs include choices between green/blue and non-green/blue projects, between broader land sparing vs. land sharing patterns, between satisfying the needs of the different inhabitants, but also betw...