REFERENCES: GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS (click on index for link)

GAI01: US EPA policy guides on green infrastructure

GAI02: Portland Stormwater Management Manual

GAI03: Infrastructure, Engineering and Climate Change Adaptation – ensuring services in an uncertain future

GAI04: EU Blueprint to safeguard water resources

GAI05: UN Environmental Principles

GAI06: Aarhus Convention

GAI07: London Plan

GAI08: Combined sewer overflows factsheet

GAI09: TSB's "The challenge of future cities"

GAI10: Linked London Feasibility Report

GAI11: Ofwat's Setting price limits for 2010-15 - Framework and approach

GAI12: National Policy Statement for Waste Water

GAI13: City of Atlanta Ordinance

GAI14: Water Works " Rebuilding infrastructure, creating jobs, greening the environment"

GAI15: NYC Green Infrastructure Plan

GAI16: EU Regulation on Citizens Creating Legal Acts of the Union

GAI17: The European Citizen's Initiative

GAI18 (Rev 1): Thames Tunnel: A Critique of a Flawed Project

GAI19: Money Down the Drain: Getting a better deal for consumers from the water industry

GAI20: EU Lays Out the Law for UK on Sewage Treatment

GAI21: Judgement on nitrogen dioxide limits

GAI22: Washington DC stormwater management regulations revision July 2013

GAI23: Urban green infrastructure report to Parliament

GAI24: Environment Agency Report - An assessment of evidence on Sustainable Drainage Systems and the Thames Tideway Standards (October 2013)

[This report should be read along with recent evidence provided by Professor Chris Binnie in request for NPS review- Annex 2 in PPL05]

GAI25: Report of the Thames Tunnel Commission - October 2011 (Chairman – The Earl of Selborne)

GAI26: DEFRA - Costs and Benefits of the Thames Tunnel, Nov 2011 [also discussed in SEE03]

GAI27: DEFRA - A strategic and economic case for the Thames Tunnel, Nov 2011

GAI28: Adapting to climate change: a checklist for development

GAI29: DEFRA - Summary of responses - Consultattions on draft reasons for specifying TTT as an SIP and for issuing a prepatory work notice. Note - still no mention of potential to spawn a new London Blue Green Infratructure based industry (also discussed in SEE02).

GAI30: Dept for Business Innovation and Skills - The Smart City Market - Opportunities for the UK (note Section 2 on Smart Water Management).

GAI31: Houses of Parliament Post Note - Urban Green Infrastructure

GAI32: Barriers to, and incentives for, the adoption of green water infrastructure

GAI33: Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution - Adapting institutions to climate change

GAI34: GLA - Green infrastructure and open environments - The all London green grid

GAI35: IPCC Report - Climate change 2014

GAI36: World Bank - Urban environment and infrastructure toward livable cities

GAI37: British Ecological Society: Green infrastructure -from encouraging examples to a joined-up approach?

GAI38: International Energy Agency - Energy and Climate Change

GAI39: Sensitivity and the carbon budget

GAI40: Water Environment Federation Releases Future of Stormwater Report

GAI41: CIBSE Resilient Cities

GAI42: European Commission - Guidance on Integrating Climate Change and Biodiversity into Environmental Impact Assessment

GAI43: European Commision - Environmental Impact Assessment

GAI44: European Commision - Environmental Impact Assessment of Projects

GAI45: GLA - London Sustainable Drainage Action Plan

GAI46: UN Framework convention on climate change - aggregate effect of INDCs

GAI47: DEFRA - Thames Tideway Tunnel: strategic and economic case, costs and benefits, 2015 update [currently being reviewed to measure assertions against historic assumptions and methodology]

GAI48