Green SURGE - Green Infrastructure and Urban Biodiversity for Sustainable Urban Development and the Green Economy

This transdisciplinary project on EU-level aims to identify and develop different aspects of urban green infrastructure as a conceptual framework for urban planning issues. We work in 20 model cities, whereas five (including Berlin) serve to answer specific research questions, collect comparable field data and involve local stakeholders. Focus of our working group is thereby

Biocultural diversity: Assessment of perception and preference of biodiversity of urban green infrastructure, depending on different cultural and social resident groups

Urban Learning Labs: Identification of best practice examples concerning planning, development and use of urban green infrastructure together with local actors

Funding: EU (603567)

Duration: 11/2013 – 10/2017

Partners: University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Helsinki (Finland), Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany), Technical University of Munich (Germany), Wageningen University (Netherlands), Stockholm Resilience Centre/Beijer Institute, University of Stockholm (Sweden), Forest Research (GB), ICLEI European Secretariat GmbH (Germany), Metropolitan Research Institute (Hungary), University of Bari (Italy), Triple E (Netherlands), University of Lodz (Poland), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden), University of Lisbon (Portugal), Scandinavian Branding (Denmark), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Ecometrica (Denmark), Inštitut za trajnostni razvoj (Slovenia), Lavaco (Slovenia), Tisa (Slovenia), PROFIN Service (Italy)

http://greensurge.eu/

Green Surge-Abschlusskonferenz in Malmö vom 20.-22.09.17 mit Beiträgen aus dem Fachgebiet