Ecological Infrastructure as a Synthetic Solution to Urban Environmental Problems
解决城市生态环境问题的生态基础设施途径

The speedy urbanization processes in China caused various ecological and environmental problems,and the degradation of water associated environment is one of the biggest issues.These problems were more than often resulted from"small decisions" and single minded engineering approaches in dealing with urban environment.It is highly recommended that a multifunctional and synthetic approach is required in order to solve the ecological and environmental problems in Chinese cities.Using the city Dongying as a case,this paper proposes a three-step approach to develop synthetic solutions to the ecological and environmental problems:(1)The synthesis of problems and definition of goals using Delphi method;(2)the development of strategic landscape structures which are integrated into the ecological infrastructure to solve the problems with multifunctional goals; and(3)the impact analysis regarding the proposed ecological infrastructure.A number of landscape strategies were proposed.