Implementing the green infrastructure concept in practice : an example of the EU-strategy for Alpine Region

Marot, Naja (author), Kostanjšek, Barbara (author), Penko Seidl, Nadja (author), Harfst, Jörn (author)

This article reflects on the development of green infrastructure as planning concept and inspects the status of the concept’s implementation under the umbrella of the EU-strategy for the Alpine Region. Qualitative methods, including policy analysis and interviews, were used to evaluate the understanding of the concept among relevant stakeholders from Alpine countries. The results show that there is little agreement with regard to understanding the concept, and that there was a lack of common practice towards its implementation in the 2014–2020 EU budget period. The macro-regional setting consists of the macro regional strategy and the financial support for projects and measures provided via the Alpine Space Programme and The Alpine Region Preparatory Action Fund (ARPAF). The policy analysis reveals that some of the Alpine countries were more pro-active and have either integrated the concept into existing policies (nature protection, planning, environmental policies and so on) or possess GI specific legislation. It was concluded that the existence of various perceptions and views on the concept hinder the successful implementation of the concept and its integration into lower governance levels. Thus, for now, the implementation of GI in the macro-regional context depends upon individual initiatives of the states, regions, or/and local communities.

• Language: English
• Keywords: green infrastructure, multi-level governance, EU-strategy for the Alpine Region, strategic planning, macro-regional strategy, institutional framework, waste management
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 325–338
• Numbering: Vol. 26, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-160224
• UDC: 71
• ISSN on article: 1522-7200
• DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2024.2383685
• COBISS.SI-ID: 204398595
• Publication date in RUL: 23.08.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of environmental policy & planning
• Shortened title: J. environ. policy plan.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1522-7200
• COBISS.SI-ID: 521853465

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: zelena infrastruktura, upravljanje na več ravneh, alpska regija, strateško načrtovanje, makroregionalna strategija, institucionalni okvir, državljani, Slovenija

Projects

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Interreg, Alpine Space, EUSALP
• Project number: 7-I-44/4-O-19/TT
• Acronym: AlpGOV 1