Project: Smart-U-Green

About Smart-U-Green

Landscape conflicts

Policy controversies

Governance

Key figures

Cities

6

Experimental territories

Partners

11

Scientific and institutional organizations

Societal issues

Climate Change adaptation
Climate Change adaptation

Climate change is the vulnerability in global world, related to risks such as flood, freshwater supply…

Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl

There is an uninterrupted trend of urban expansion at the fringes of the larger agglomerations.

Socio-spatial justice
Socio-spatial justice

Another pressing issue of urban landscapes is the demand for affordable housing. This issue is linked to…

Providing enough green and blue landscape spaces
Providing enough green and blue landscape spaces

In order to fight soil artificialization and to treat the continuum between urban and rural territories…

Governance challenges
Governance challenges

Governance of urban landscapes has evolved over the last decades away from a more top-down…

Environmental regulations

  • Collective management of environmental issues
  • Integrated sustainability

Scientific alerts (Limits to Growth, 1972; etc.)

Protection of exceptional cultural and natural heritage (Unesco, Stockholm Summit, etc.)

Definition of sustainable development: Brundtland Report (1987) 

Conservation of nature articulated with socio-economic development (1982): world charte

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(1988) 

Rio Earth Summit(1992) and Agendas 21

Conferences of the parties: COP1 (Berlin, 1995)

Convention: Conservation of wild fauna and flora(1979)

Convention: Safeguarding of architectural and archaeological heritage(1985, 1992)

Notion of “sustainable city” (charterof Aalborg, 1994)

Creation of Regional Natural Parks (1967)

Ministry of the Environment (1991-2007)

Nature Conservation Act (1976) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

ZNIEEF (1982):inventories of areas of ecological interest

ZICO (1988): inventory and protection of birds

Specific regulation:Fischeries Act (1984), Mountain Act and Forest Act (1985), Coastal Act (1986), Water Act (1992)

Regional environmental
directorates(1991-2009) 

Ecological corridors, Local Agenda 21:Voynet Act (1999) 

  • Green and blue frames + Territorial development

Kyoto Conference(COP2, 1997), implementation of protocol(2005)

JohannesburgSummit (2002)

Group of Experts on Sustainable Management(UNEO, 2007)

Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society (2005)

EnvironmentalLiability Directive (2004)

Regional Planning and Sustainable Development Layouts (SRADDT)

Hunting Act /Forest Act (2001)

Environmental Code (2000)

National Strategy for Sustainable Development (2003)

Charter of the Environment(2005):
Principles of precaution, prevention, polluterpays

Grenelle of environment (2007): Grenelle I and II Acts (2009, 2010)

  • Systemic and inclusive approach

Green Climate Fund(COP17, 2011)

Rio+20 Earth Summit (2012)

Sustainable Development Goals: Agendas 2030 (NewYork, 2015)

ClimateAgreements(COP21, Paris)

Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development (2007) “Ecological Pact”, then Ministry ofEcological and solidarity transition (2017)

Regional ecological coherence layouts HEQ standards

Energy Transition Act (2015) / NOTReAct (2015): SRADDET

Challenges

Scientific Issues

Notion of landscape
Notion of landscape

The project is developed around the notion of “landscape” as promoted by the European…

Landscape quality
Landscape quality

(The) ““Landscape quality objective” means, for a specific landscape, the formulation by the competent…

Landscape policies
Landscape policies

Landscape has observed an increasing political, social and cultural weight in debates, practices and…

Integrated landscape approach
Integrated landscape approach

Based on the multi-dimensionality of landscape (quality), we derive the need for an integrated…

Sustainability transition
Sustainability transition

Transitions are complex, unstructured, and non-linear processes of shifting from one dynamic system…

Transition governance
Transition governance

In both Agenda 21 and the Aalborg Charter, references to environmental themes are frequent but…

Participatory involvement of actors
Participatory involvement of actors

The current scientific literature delivers a precise picture of the set of relevant stakeholders within…

Integrated landscape governance
Integrated landscape governance

One of the tools for integrating and distributing environmental benefits is adaptive planning…

Disciplinary city
Disciplinary city

All these practices provide attempts to answer the criticism of functionalism in urban planning…

Participating cities

Partners

DRIFT – Erasmus University Rotterdam
DRIFT – Erasmus University Rotterdam

The Dutch Research Institute for Transitions DRIFT is coordinator of Smart-U-Green. It is renowned for its research on sustainability transitions and transition management. In Smart-U-Green DRIFT acts as project leader, rand coordinator of WP1 and WP2

SAAD – Università di Camerino
SAAD – Università di Camerino

SAAD is particularly focused oninterdisciplinary research in the fields of urban, landscape and territorial planning. It has atrack record in interdisciplinary modelling of urban landscape quality indicators. SAAD UNICAM is in charge of WP3.

Université de Reims
Université de Reims

The Institute of Urban Planning IATEUR has a leading position at the national level on sustainability science. Its central topic is: how can societies most effectively guide or manage human-environment systems toward sustainability transition? IATEUR is coordinator of WP4 and dissemination activities.

Drechsteden Region
Drechsteden Region

Drechtsteden Region is a cooperation of seven cities in the Delta area of Holland. Drechtsteden has an agenda focused on strengthening the region as a “Maritime TopRegion”.

Marche Region
Marche Region

Marche Region, through the Department of the Environment and Territory, has started for several yearsthe so-called “Landscape Project” (“Progetto Paesaggio”).

Grand Reims
Grand Reims

Reims is a medium-sized French city that gives its name to the agglomeration of Grand Reims, close to Paris and the Belgian borders. Manycaves and tunnels under Reims, form a sort of maze below the city where the Champagne is stored.

University of Guelph
University of Guelph

Christopher Bryant, Adjunct Professsor with the Université de Montréal and the University of Guelph,holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1970).

University of Zagreb
University of Zagreb

The Department for Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Landscape Architecture is part of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. Prof. Ph.D. Mladen Obad Šćitaroci

University of Pskov
University of Pskov

PskovSU is the center of educational, cultural and scientific life of the Pskov region, which makes it into the main strategic center in the field of cooperation with the European Union and the Baltic region countries.

NGO Ekapraekt
NGO Ekapraekt

NGO Ekapraekt was founded in 2002 by members of the Belarusian Green Party as an expert and science-policy panel of the organisation. 

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CivilScape
CivilScape

CivilScape is, since 2008, a Network of European Non-Governmental Organisations, Regional and Local Authorities which dedicate their work to landscape protection, management and planning, for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention.

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