Abstract

GREEN SURGE is a trans-national research project funded through the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. GREEN SURGE is an acronym for "Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy". The project is identifying, developing and testing ways of connecting green spaces, biodiversity, people and the green economy, in order to meet the major urban challenges related to land use conflicts, climate change adaptation, demographic changes, and human health and well-being.

 A first task of GREEN SURGE is a comparative analysis of European cities and city regions based on 20 case studies across Europe in order to understand the current state of Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) planning and governance across the continent. A multilevel and multidisciplinary approach has been developed by GREEN SURGE researchers which includes an overview study based on interviews, desk study and analysis of public sector plans and strategies. Case Studies are an important tool for understanding planning and governance approaches and are a source of valuable information for the scientific analysis being undertaken in GREEN SURGE. This report contains provides summaries of these analyses in the form of portraits. The portraits are used for comparative analysis. As individual products they can be used to discuss findings between policy makers, green space managers, other practitioners and researchers in a particular city.

Keywords

urban planning, ecosystem services, Europe

Published in

Title: Report of Case Study City Portraits: APPENDIX - GREEN SURGE study on urban green infrastructure planning and governance in 20 European case studies
Publisher: University of Copenhagen

SLU Authors

• Delshammar, Tim

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

Future Urban Sustainable Environment (FUSE) (until Jan 2017)


UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/64314