Green Infrastructure is a landscape planning and design method based on creating a network of blue-green landscapes (vegetation and water systems) that perform infrastructural functions while providing ecosystem services to cities. In green infrastructure, design is conceived based on the biogeophysical potential and limitations of the landscape, and water management is carried out through Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) such as rain gardens, bioswales, vegetated infiltration basins, and wetlands, which adapt existing infrastructure to the hydrological cycle and other ecological processes.
This tool promotes sustainable development by addressing contemporary environmental issues directly related to water resource management and the scarcity of green spaces, such as flooding, inundation, pollution, climate change, mobility, and public health.
Through theoretical content, technical guidelines, and a practical exercise, the course aims to establish the foundations that will enable students and professionals to develop green infrastructure projects.
