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Financing Green Infrastructure in Schools: A Case Study in Austria

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  • Florian Teichmann

    (Research Unit of Ecological Building Technologies, Institute of Material Technology, Building Physics and Building Ecology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien–Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria)

  • Azra Korjenic

    (Research Unit of Ecological Building Technologies, Institute of Material Technology, Building Physics and Building Ecology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien–Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria)

  • Marijana Sreckovic

    (Research Unit of Integrated Planning and Industrial Building, Institute of Building and Industrial Construction, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien–Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria)

  • Hannes Veit

    (Research Unit of Integrated Planning and Industrial Building, Institute of Building and Industrial Construction, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien–Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria)

  • Dominik Hartmann

    (Research Unit of Integrated Planning and Industrial Building, Institute of Building and Industrial Construction, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Wien–Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria)

Abstract

Despite the positive effects of green infrastructure on people and the environment, it is still rarely integrated in public facilities such as schools. The main reason for this is a lack of knowledge about financing options. To fill this gap, the research project MehrGrüneSchulen (Engl.: More Green Schools) develops financing scenarios for green infrastructure in Austrian schools. This case study describes these developed scenarios, which use the principles of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as well as the newly named principle of chain building. The idea of chain building is to motivate schools that have already successfully financed and built a low-cost greening system to present this process to another school in such a way that they are able to do the same themselves and eventually explain the process to a further school to continue this chain reaction. For the proposed funding scenarios to be effective, there is a need for innovation in education, with a focus on inter-school participation and networking. For this reason, the possible synergies of an online networking platform are discussed, which would help to connect schools and thus further improve the impact of the proposed fundraising processes.

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  • Florian Teichmann & Azra Korjenic & Marijana Sreckovic & Hannes Veit & Dominik Hartmann, 2023. "Financing Green Infrastructure in Schools: A Case Study in Austria," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(20), pages 1-23, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:20:p:14985-:d:1261784
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