IMAGINE

 

According to the European Commission definition, green infrastructure (GIs) is “a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services such as water purification, air quality, space for recreation and climate mitigation and adaptation” inside urban areas.

With the implementation of its green infrastructure Strategy, the EU promotes the implementation of nature-based GI solutions to cope with multiple issues present in cities throughout the continent. Indeed, GI can be approached through the multiple benefits they provide on economic, social, environmental and human health related issues.

The IMAGINE project team supports the idea that sustainable territorial management requires a transition from the management of natural resources that degrades the ecological integrity of ecological systems to an adaptive management that preserves it while improving human wellbeing.

 

The IMAGINE project ended in November 2020.