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Urban Green Infrastructure as a Strategy to Address Urban Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. A Case Study of Milagrosa (Pamplona)
Green Infrastructure (GI) has gained importance in recent years as it has been revealed as an essential piece to face the environmental problem generated by the incessant growth of urbanization, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. In this vein, the results of a research aimed at investigating the challenges posed by the implementation of the GI in the usual compact urban spaces in the cities of the Mediterranean area are presented, based on the analysis of indicators on green spaces in the Spanish city of Pamplona. A comparative analysis of the indicators (green spaces and trees) in the city’s neighbourhoods using GIS tools reveals the high intra-urban inequalities as well as the existence of, particularly, underfunded areas. The morphological analysis of one of the underfunded spaces (La Milagrosa neighbourhood) also shows that the narrowness of the road and the shortage of green spaces constitute obstacles that must be addressed from the planning tools of the GI. The results allow us to reflect on the importance of the scale of analysis in the planning processes of the UGI (Urban Green Infrastructure) and on neighbourhood the suitability of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as an alternative for the design and implementation of the UGI. ; This research was funded by EKOPOL research group, benefited in 2019 from the recognition and grant from the Basque Government’s Department of Universities and Research, with the project “Iraunkortasunerako bideak”—“Ecosocial Transition for Sustainability” (IT1365-19). The publication fees of the paper have been funded by the organization of the 12th European Congress on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Architecture and Urbanism (EESAP 12) and the 5th International Congress of Advanced Construction (CICA 5), through a prize awarded to the material of this publication in recognition of the best communication submitted to the congress.
Urban Green Infrastructure as a Strategy to Address Urban Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. A Case Study of Milagrosa (Pamplona)
Green Infrastructure (GI) has gained importance in recent years as it has been revealed as an essential piece to face the environmental problem generated by the incessant growth of urbanization, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. In this vein, the results of a research aimed at investigating the challenges posed by the implementation of the GI in the usual compact urban spaces in the cities of the Mediterranean area are presented, based on the analysis of indicators on green spaces in the Spanish city of Pamplona. A comparative analysis of the indicators (green spaces and trees) in the city’s neighbourhoods using GIS tools reveals the high intra-urban inequalities as well as the existence of, particularly, underfunded areas. The morphological analysis of one of the underfunded spaces (La Milagrosa neighbourhood) also shows that the narrowness of the road and the shortage of green spaces constitute obstacles that must be addressed from the planning tools of the GI. The results allow us to reflect on the importance of the scale of analysis in the planning processes of the UGI (Urban Green Infrastructure) and on neighbourhood the suitability of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as an alternative for the design and implementation of the UGI. ; This research was funded by EKOPOL research group, benefited in 2019 from the recognition and grant from the Basque Government’s Department of Universities and Research, with the project “Iraunkortasunerako bideak”—“Ecosocial Transition for Sustainability” (IT1365-19). The publication fees of the paper have been funded by the organization of the 12th European Congress on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Architecture and Urbanism (EESAP 12) and the 5th International Congress of Advanced Construction (CICA 5), through a prize awarded to the material of this publication in recognition of the best communication submitted to the congress.
Urban Green Infrastructure as a Strategy to Address Urban Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. A Case Study of Milagrosa (Pamplona)
Latasa Zaballos, Itxaro (author) / Laurenz Senosiain, Angela (author) / Sádaba Fernández, Juan Antonio (author)
2022-01-10
doi:10.3390/su14010028
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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