1. General information
2. Objectives of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
The intervention ultimate goal is to promote the respectful and sustainable use of this space, while preserving its natural values (Ref 1).
- Enhancing sustainable urbanisation
- Restoring ecosystems and their functions
- Developing climate change mitigation
- Developing climate change adaptation; Improving risk management and resilience (Ref. 6)
- Preserve the biodiversity of the great metropolitan green lung and promote services that are aimed at leisure for citizens (Ref. 10)
- Enhancing sustainable urbanisation
- Restoring ecosystems and their functions
- Developing climate change mitigation
- Developing climate change adaptation; Improving risk management and resilience (Ref. 6)
- Preserve the biodiversity of the great metropolitan green lung and promote services that are aimed at leisure for citizens (Ref. 10)
Quantitative targets
Every year objectives and quantitative targets are set and presented in the annual report. These targets are of nature: ranging from habitat loss prevention, infrastructural improvement, educational initiatives and public involvement (Ref 5).
- Noise block: a forest can have a reduction effect of up to 20 or 30 decibels, and therefore works as acoustic screens that dampen noise (Ref. 1)
- Forests near cities release oxygen (O2) and fix carbon dioxide (CO2), filter out dust particles, and reduce noise. In addition, they regulate and purify water, and the cooler air currents inside the forest help to dissipate heat and pollution produced by industries, heating systems and automobiles. (Ref. 1)
- Noise block: a forest can have a reduction effect of up to 20 or 30 decibels, and therefore works as acoustic screens that dampen noise (Ref. 1)
- Forests near cities release oxygen (O2) and fix carbon dioxide (CO2), filter out dust particles, and reduce noise. In addition, they regulate and purify water, and the cooler air currents inside the forest help to dissipate heat and pollution produced by industries, heating systems and automobiles. (Ref. 1)
Monitoring indicators defined
Different kind of indicators are used, in the latest report (from 2015) references to animal and plant species monitoring and associated indicators were present, as well as an inventory of buildings and network elements for fire prevention through the application of GIS mapping (Ref 5). reduction of noise in decibels (Ref 1)
Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Climate change adaptation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Please specify other climate change adaptation goal
protected fragile peri-urban ecosystem for both their social and ecological functions and improving management (Ref 1, 6)
Climate change adaptation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Climate change mitigation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Please specify "other Climate change mitigation activity"
- protect fragile peri-urban ecosystem for both their social and ecological functions (Ref 1,6)
-implementing forest conservation: Forests near cities release oxygen (O2) and fix carbon dioxide (CO2), filter out dust particles, and reduce noise. In addition, they regulate and purify water, and the cooler air currents inside the forest help to dissipate heat and pollution produced by industries, heating systems and automobiles. (Ref. 1)
-implementing forest conservation: Forests near cities release oxygen (O2) and fix carbon dioxide (CO2), filter out dust particles, and reduce noise. In addition, they regulate and purify water, and the cooler air currents inside the forest help to dissipate heat and pollution produced by industries, heating systems and automobiles. (Ref. 1)
Climate change mitigation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What types of conservation goals are / were defined for the NBS intervention?
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
What types of restoration goals are / were defined for the NBS intervention?
What activities are implemented to realize the restoration goals and targets?
Implementation activities
- protection of this fragile peri-urban ecosystem for both their social and ecological functions (Ref 1,6)
-Each year different targets are set, involving different kinds of implementation activities, focusing on habitat protection, environmental education, website handling, publications, information spreading and general administration of the park. Each annual report has extensive descriptions of these activities (http://www.parcnaturalcollserola.cat/pages/memories). Many work meetings have been attended to continue analyzing the various problems that affect the strategic lines of the new one special plan, such as: hunting, definition of the area functional, uses and activities, equipment for the leisure, catalog of buildings and heritage, economic study of the plan, ecosystem services, studies of biodiversity, etc. (Ref 5)
- a self-sufficient habitat research centre created. Located in the Collserola Natural Park, in the heart of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, it has laboratories for the production of energy, food and things, and develops projects and academic programmes in association with leading research centres around the world. As part of IaaC’s commitment to promoting and advancing habitability in the world on the basis of ecological principles and to making the fullest use of all available technologies and resources, we have created a research centre focused on the idea of self-sufficiency, with a view to providing a worldwide point of reference. Valldaura Labs is an opportunity to learn directly from nature in order to bring that understanding to the regeneration of 21st-century cities (http://valldaura.net/).
-specific species planted: holm oaks are still the most typical tree found in the Collserola range. Near the holm oaks (Quercus ilex) and English oaks (Quercus robur) there are field and Montpellier maples (Acer campestre and Acer monspessulanum), and large stretches of riverbank woodland alongside the gullies and fast-flowing streams, with a lots of white poplars (Populus alba), black poplars (Populus nigra) and narrow-leaved ash trees (Fraxinus angustifolia). The fruit trees include hazel (Corylus avellana), pomegranate (Punica granatum) and wild cherry (Prunus avium). You can also find Chinese weeping willows (Salix alba) and elms (Ulmus pumila). Shrubs there include chaste trees (Vitex agnus-castus), common hawthorns (Crataegus monogyna), strawberry trees (Arbutus unedo), laurustinuses (Viburnum tinus), Mediterranean buckthorns (Rhamnus alaternus), Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) and ivy (Hedera helix). (Ref. 2)
-Each year different targets are set, involving different kinds of implementation activities, focusing on habitat protection, environmental education, website handling, publications, information spreading and general administration of the park. Each annual report has extensive descriptions of these activities (http://www.parcnaturalcollserola.cat/pages/memories). Many work meetings have been attended to continue analyzing the various problems that affect the strategic lines of the new one special plan, such as: hunting, definition of the area functional, uses and activities, equipment for the leisure, catalog of buildings and heritage, economic study of the plan, ecosystem services, studies of biodiversity, etc. (Ref 5)
- a self-sufficient habitat research centre created. Located in the Collserola Natural Park, in the heart of the metropolitan area of Barcelona, it has laboratories for the production of energy, food and things, and develops projects and academic programmes in association with leading research centres around the world. As part of IaaC’s commitment to promoting and advancing habitability in the world on the basis of ecological principles and to making the fullest use of all available technologies and resources, we have created a research centre focused on the idea of self-sufficiency, with a view to providing a worldwide point of reference. Valldaura Labs is an opportunity to learn directly from nature in order to bring that understanding to the regeneration of 21st-century cities (http://valldaura.net/).
-specific species planted: holm oaks are still the most typical tree found in the Collserola range. Near the holm oaks (Quercus ilex) and English oaks (Quercus robur) there are field and Montpellier maples (Acer campestre and Acer monspessulanum), and large stretches of riverbank woodland alongside the gullies and fast-flowing streams, with a lots of white poplars (Populus alba), black poplars (Populus nigra) and narrow-leaved ash trees (Fraxinus angustifolia). The fruit trees include hazel (Corylus avellana), pomegranate (Punica granatum) and wild cherry (Prunus avium). You can also find Chinese weeping willows (Salix alba) and elms (Ulmus pumila). Shrubs there include chaste trees (Vitex agnus-castus), common hawthorns (Crataegus monogyna), strawberry trees (Arbutus unedo), laurustinuses (Viburnum tinus), Mediterranean buckthorns (Rhamnus alaternus), Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) and ivy (Hedera helix). (Ref. 2)
3. NBS domains, ES and scale
4. Governance and financing
5. Innovation
Type of innovation
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
Unknown
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
Unknown
