Green infrastructure
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Green infrastructure is a system which contains natural, semi-natural or ecological areas which ensure that living conditions for people and nature are maintained and improved in both rural and urban areas. Comparable to the technical infrastructure such as supply and disposal, traffic, etc., the green infrastructure offers services within the ecosystem. And, similar to the technical infrastructure, investments must be made in green infrastructure in order to maintain it or to adapt it to social and natural requirements.
With the densification of cities and the increasing functionalization of landscapes (agriculture and forestry for services of general interest, agricultural areas as energy generation areas for photovoltaics, etc.), natural and near-natural areas are assuming increasingly important functions in the sense of an “eco-service”. Climate changes and their ecological and economical consequences require the preservation, strengthening and expansion of green areas of any kind.
Green infrastructure is to be understood as a system or as a green network which serves the ecosystem as well as the well-being of humans. It is able to complete several functions and is therefore capable of showing both ecological and economical but also social effects:
In practice and in concrete terms on the field of work of AGU | Goldmann landscape architecture, we deal with: