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

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.