Abstract
Green Infrastructure is ‘an interconnected network of green space that conserves natural ecosystem values and functions and provides associated benefits to human populations’ [1, p. 12]. It contributes to long term strategic development goals for data and information management. The research paper was introduced with the aim to protect green areas in urban environment by improving biodiversity, leisure and recreation, tidal and fluvial flood risk management, grey water treatment and quality of life. Planning and design of green system should provide appropriate responses to the distinctive local circumstances. Green spaces encourage social interactions, form new places to practise sport and contribute to public health and fitness, as well as have indirect benefits for a range of environmental services. The research hypothesis is that Green Infrastructure is a framework for conservation and development and we need to design Green Infrastructure systems strategically to connect across urban, suburban, rural and wilderness landscapes and incorporate green space elements and functions at the state, regional, community, neighbourhood and site scales [2]. Analysis and design of emerging Green Infrastructure system take a holistic view which links related physical, environmental, economic, social and cultural aspects of local communities.
Highlights
Intensive urbanization hampers the development and quality of municipal green areas, new terrain is covered by newly erectedstructures, pollutionincreases, forest area is reduced, erosion intensifies, biodiversity decreases due to fragmentation of habitats
Natural England defines Green Infrastructure as: ”a strategically planned and delivered network comprising the broadest range of high quality green spaces and other environmental features
At the regional level implementation of Green Infrastructure guidelines can help in urban revitalizationand landscape preservation, at the scale of local government in maintaining the continuityof green areas in urban and suburban zones, at the district and neighborhood in delivering of new amenity space in master planning and urban design
Summary
Intensive urbanization hampers the development and quality of municipal green areas, new terrain is covered by newly erectedstructures, pollutionincreases, forest area is reduced, erosion intensifies, biodiversity decreases due to fragmentation of habitats. The ecological functioning of green areas is largely dependent on the size of plant clusters, immunity, ecological relations, durability and use. As important as their role may be, urban ecosystems are, increasingly at risk of being devastated by an ever-expanding city. Planning solutions within the framework of Green Infrastructure are of extraordinary importance in urban environment as it is inhabited by over 60% of the EU population. Green Infrastructure in cities may have a beneficial effect on general health in the form of clean air, better quality water and wider accessibility of recreational grounds
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