The GREEN SURGE Handbook
By clicking on the headlines below you will find selected outputs from the GREEN SURGE project 2013-2017. The outputs are all focused on how Urban Green Infrastructure can contribute to a sustainable future for cities by addressing major urban challenges. The challenges are related to land use conflicts, biodiversity conservation, climate change, demographic changes, a greener economy, and human health and wellbeing.
This handbook is a selection of findings and examples, compiled into policy briefs, factsheets, guidelines, recommendations, and main messages which are all tailor-made for decision-makers such as planners, policy-makers, and other practitioners. We hope this handbook can be useful and inspiring and help to shape the future of our cities by bringing the Urban Green Infrastructure concept up-front!
Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy
The GREEN SURGE project was a collaborative project between 23 partners in 11 countries, from 2013-2017. It was funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
GREEN SURGE identified, developed and tested ways of linking 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 wellbeing. It provided a sound evidence base for urban green infrastructure planning and implementation, exploring the potential for innovation in better linking environmental, social and economic ecosystem services with local communities.
Working from the local to the city-regional level, the project aims were to:
- Develop urban green infrastructure as a planning concept for both integration and promotion of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and adapt it to local contexts.
- Apply an innovative biocultural diversity perspective to develop successful governance arrangements facilitating socio-ecological integration and local engagement in planning of urban green spaces.
- Explore how valuation and real market integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services can facilitate choices in favour of the development of multifunctional green spaces in urban areas.
Policy Briefs
- Urban Green Infrastructure Planning: Stragic Choices for a Better Quality of LIfe in the City
- Unlocking alternative ways of financing urban green infrastructure by getting a better grasp of its diverse values
- Joining forces with active citizens to manage inclusive, biodiverse urban green infrastructure
- Identifying the dynamics between green spaces and human use to create sustainable urban green infrastructure
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Prof. Stephan Pauleit
GREEN SURGE was funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework (FP7)
Project title: GREEN SURGE:
Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy
Start: 2013
End: 2017
All scientific deliverables
Here you can read all scientific deliverables from GREEN SURGE. The Deliverables are organised according to the workflow and working package structure of the project.