Advancing urban green infrastructure through participatory integrated planning: A case from Slovakia

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866720307743?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866720307743?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126957" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126957</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Advancing urban green infrastructure through participatory integrated planning: A case from Slovakia

Original language description

Cities provide a locus for sustainability: they will soon accommodate most of the world's population, just as increasing environmental and climate emergencies and socio-economic inequalities constitute major challenges. The concept of urban green infrastructure (UGI) offers a greenspace planning approach based on a grounded set of principles to improve the environmental health and liveability of cities. A wide variety of greenspace planning and implementation approaches is already being applied within and across countries. This paper employs UGI as a research lens to critically evaluate planning trends in Slovakia on national, regional and local levels. To this end we have analysed planning documents, interviewed greenspace agents and evaluated local good practice. Our results indicate weak instrumental support for UGI planning, as well as other systemic and procedural barriers to green infrastructure. Moreover, a comparison with observations from other European planning systems reveals notable commonalities and differences. The paper then discusses a local greening programme and bottom-up actions as potential ways to foster green infrastructure development. Local practitioners can initiate important planning processes by employing nature-based practices, engaging with stakeholders and promoting functional approaches. We propose a participatory integrated model that utilises the opportunities embedded in bottom-up actions. Our model can be adopted in higher-level planning and policymaking if appropriate operational and mediating interventions take place.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

ISSN

1618-8667

e-ISSN

1610-8167

Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

MAR

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

126957

UT code for WoS article

000620651800003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85099703119