Green Talents Report published

 

The aim of Attila Tóth's Green Talents Research Stay was to study the implementation of the EU Green Infrastructure Strategy at the regional and city level in the process of a sustainable and climate-smart urban development. The main research question was “How the European Green Infrastructure Strategy has been adopted by, integrated into and implemented through landscape and urban planning in North Rhine-Westphalia?” The goal was to conduct a complex analysis of landscape and urban planning at the regional and municipal level. The research has been conducted on a case study basis, while cities, regions and their planning systems and tools have served as research samples.

From this perspective, the German federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia represents a progressive example of green infrastructure implementation and its integration into sustainable development of urban communities and ecosystems. Furthermore, the results have proven that a sustainable urban development can be strongly supported by a balanced and interlinked combination of formal and informal planning.

Text: Excerpts from A. Tóth's Green Talents Research Stay Report