Blue Green City

BLUE GREEN CITY seeks to improve policies that promote Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) as an integral part of a local or regional natural heritage preservation strategy

How will these be achieved? BLUE GREEN CITY will increase individual, organisational, stakeholder and external knowledge of the concept of ecosystem services and the value of GBI through project events, workshops and training. This will be done through interregional Policy learning process and collaboration in finding common solutions to common challenges posed by climate change adaptation and by sharing experience and exchanging good practices.

OBJECTIVES

• assess the use of a wide range of Policy instruments and identify the potential barriers for adopting GBI
• develop and improve GBI strategies in order to create functional ecological connectivity between cities and peri-urban protected areas
• map the existing GBI provisions and assess the economic and non-monetary valuation of ecosystem services
• defining measures to be included in a Biodiversity Action Plan and a strategic spatial plan for future GBI implementation
• raise awareness and knowledge of the concept of ecosystem services and of the value of green and blue infrastructure in protecting, preserving and enhancing natural and cultural capital
• develop best practice recommendations for improving Policy instruments that promote green and blue infrastructure

MAIN OUTPUTS

• 7 Action Plans to develop/improve GBI strategies for natural heritage preservation (including  the mapping of existing GBI provision, a Biodiversity Action Plan and a Strategic Spatial Plan for future GBI implementation)
• Training Manuals
• Set of Best Practices and experience
• Working Tables, Reports on experiences
• Peer-review workshop reports, Thematic expert papers
• Study visit guides