GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Authors

  • José Guilherme Schutzer Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-2275.v0i8p12-30

Keywords:

green infrastructure, urban environmental infrastructure, urban environmental management, environmental planning, parks, green areas, urban sustainability

Abstract

The increasing quantity of research about the green infrastructure concept in Brazil and some performed concrete experiments reflect the need for progress on issues related to its integration in the context of environmental infrastructure necessary for large urban agencies and environmental land management. The intense range of solutions proposed by this concept presents interfaces with many other urban infrastructures and especially with different scales and actors of land management.

Thus, this article intends to contribute to this debate by presenting a preliminary approach on the nature of the environmental management of urbanized areas and where the locus of those actions, connected to the concept of green infrastructure, will be. Concomitantly to this target, it will be presented the initial formulation of a concept of urban environmental management¹, which seeks to comprise the sphere of management of all structures that establish the use and consumption of natural resources in a more effective way, i.e., either relating to the ground, as well as to water and vegetation.

 

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¹ Urban environmental management meaning the urbanization of the territory, including rural and intra-urban areas, so that the whole sphere of municipal action and those which should expand to the state sphere, especially in cases of large urbanized regions, i.e., the case of metropolitan regions. It involves the insertion of the territory context used by the city, which extrapolates, partially, the limits of its urban areas and its municipal boundaries.

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Author Biography

  • José Guilherme Schutzer, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo
    Geógrafo pela FFLCH/USP, mestre em urbanismo pela FAU/USP, doutor em Geografia Física pela FFLCH/USP, consultor em planejamento territorial e ambiental e professor de Desenho da Paisagem na Associação Escola da Cidade.

Published

2014-08-08

How to Cite

Schutzer, J. G. (2014). GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. Revista LABVERDE, 8, 12-30. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-2275.v0i8p12-30