Applications of the GGBI Framework
The Green–Grey–Blue–Intelligent (GGBI) Framework can be applied across a range of water and urban challenges. This section summarizes key application areas and links to pages where examples, concepts, and related materials are organized.
Why Organize Applications Around GGBI?
Many water and urban challenges span multiple domains: rainfall–runoff processes, drainage networks, rivers, estuaries, coasts, and the institutions that manage them. The GGBI Framework offers a way to:
- Identify which Green, Grey, Blue, and Intelligent elements are most relevant.
- Clarify how local interventions connect to larger-scale responses.
- Evaluate portfolios of measures rather than isolated projects.
- Link research, modeling, and teaching materials to real-world problems.
The applications on this site draw on examples from urban stormwater management, watershed and basin-scale studies, estuarine and coastal processes, flood resilience, and data- and model-based decision support.
Key Application Areas
Urban Stormwater & Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Application of the GGBI Framework to rainfall–runoff processes, green infrastructure performance, drainage networks, and urban flood mitigation.
Watersheds & Basin-Scale Planning
Watershed and basin-scale perspectives that link upland measures, river systems, and downstream estuarine and coastal environments, including resilience planning.
Estuaries & Coasts
Applications focused on tidal motion, storm surge, waves, salinity, wetlands, and coastal protection, and how they are influenced by both inland and coastal interventions.
Flood Resilience (Pluvial–Fluvial–Coastal)
Multi-hazard perspectives that consider intense rainfall, river flooding, and coastal events together, including combinations of Green, Grey, Blue, and Intelligent measures.
Data, Models & Intelligent Tools
Use of monitoring, hydrologic and hydrodynamic models, and emerging AI-supported tools to analyze, visualize, and communicate behaviors across GGBI domains.