1. General information
Location and description of the intervention
City or FUA
Palma de Mallorca
Region
Europe
Native title of the NBS intervention
Corredor del Mar
Short description of the intervention
The Sea's Corridor is a project that created green spaces with good quality that act as green belts of the city while serving as a support for the sustainable and not motorized means of transport. It was part of a project Plan called "Plan E" of the Municipality of Palma (Ref 1). The project was completed and in 2020 there are plans to do some renovations. They want to join the Sea's Corridor to Platja de Palma, as well as create new green spaces with a wider link with the ocean (Ref 5).
Address

Parc de la Mar
Carrer de la Portella, 10
07001 Palma de Mallorca
Spain

Location
The NBS is situated in an area, with clear delineation of boundaries and a specific shape (polygon). The NBS project can also have more than one area location (more than one polygon, situated close by).
Area boundary
POINT (2.645834 39.567276)
POINT (2.645201 39.566937)
POINT (2.656046 39.566215)
POINT (2.662074 39.563754)
POINT (2.661854 39.563181)
POINT (2.656007 39.564657)
NBS area image
Source of NBS area image
https://www.palma.cat/portal/PALMA/RecursosWeb/DOCUMENTOS/1/0_17536_1.pdf
Total area
125000.00m²
NBS area
40000.00m²
Type of area before implementation of the NBS
Residential
Website of the intervention
https://www.palma.cat/portal/PALMA/RecursosWeb/DOCUMENTOS/1/0_17536_1.pdf
Timeline of intervention
Start date of the intervention (planning process)
2009
Start date of intervention (implementation process)
2010
End date of the intervention
unknown
Present stage of the intervention
Completed
Goals of the intervention
The initial plan had the following goals:
- Creation or maintenance of jobs. (ref 2)
- Transform a degraded part of the city into a green lung. (ref 2)
- Catalyze the growth and consolidation of a new model of sustainable city (Ref 1).
- Recover the coast side of the city for the citizens. (ref 1)
- Create a new maritime front for a new model of the city. (ref 3)

The goals of the new reform (2020) of the corridor include (ref 5):
- Build a self-sufficient city.
- Build a resilient city to climate change.
- Regeneration of the territorial ecosystem with the green corridors.
- Renaturalization of Palma with the extension of the green park's network.
- Close the water cycle, improving the sanitation systems and elimination of the sea waste.


Quantitative targets
- 70 jobs created. (ref 2)
- 40 000 m2 extension to the park, to be part of the Seaside corridor (ref 1)
- Total 125 000 m2 of urban park once the extension is completed. (ref 3)
- 90% of the park will be green area (ref 3)
Monitoring indicators defined
Amount of jobs created
Area of increased green space
Increased accessibility to the coast

Sustainability challenge(s) addressed
Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
Climate change adaptation
Climate change mitigation
Water management (SDG 6)
Flood protection
Improvements to water quality
Coastal resilience and marine protection (SDG 14)
Coastal protection / hazard mitigation
Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
Green space creation and/or management
Environmental quality
Soil quality improvement
Air quality improvement
Economic development and employment (SDG 8)
Employment/job creation
Climate change adaptation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Build resilience
Climate change adaptation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Increase or improve urban vegetation cover to help reduce outdoor temperature
Protect coastal and freshwater ecosystems to prevent coastal erosion and pollution
Climate change mitigation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Sequester and store carbon
Climate change mitigation: What activities are implemented to realize the conservation goals and targets?
Increase green urban nature for carbon storage (wetlands, tree cover)
Invest in public transport/bicycle infrastructure as a means to prevent car use
Implementation activities
For the promotion of sustainable mobility: bike lanes and bicycle parking, which will allow them to travel along the whole seafront and can unite the Palace of Congress with the historical center of the city, will be built. (Ref 1)
For the promotion of urban sustainability, a green public space (ref 1), with new infrastructure (ref 3).
Type of NBS project
Creation of new green areas
Coastal landscape management or protection
Strategy, plan or policy development
NBS domain and interventions
Ecological domain(s) where the NBS intervention(s) is/are implemented
Parks and urban forests
Large urban parks or forests
Green corridors and green belts
Blue infrastructure
Coastlines
Vegetation Type
Trees
Please specify how many trees were planted
Unknown
Please specify other amenities offered by the NBS
Parking lots
Amenities offered by the NBS
Sports areas and equipment
Cultural (museum, concert areas)
Complementing infrastructure (bathrooms, café)
Other
Services
Expected ecosystem services delivered
Regulating services
Local climate regulation (temperature reduction)
Air quality regulation
Habitat and supporting services
Habitats for species
Maintenance of genetic diversity
Cultural services
Tourism
Aesthetic appreciation
Recreation
Scale
Spatial scale
Micro-scale: District/neighbourhood level
Beneficiaries
Primary Beneficiaries
Local government/Municipality
Citizens or community groups
Governance
Governance arrangements
Government-led
Please specify the roles of the specific government and non-government actor groups involved in the initiative
The intervention was proposed and led by the local government of Palma under its General Plan, it is financed and includes the goals of Plan E and economic and employment growth strategy. (ref 1 and 3)
Key actors - initiating organization
Local government/municipality
Land owners
Public space owned by the city
Key actors - Other stakeholders involved (besides initiating actors)
Regional government
Local government/municipality
Citizens or community group
Land owners
Public space owned by the city
Participatory methods/forms of community involvement used
Dissemination of information and education
Consultation (e.g. workshop, surveys, community meetings, town halls)
Policy drivers
NBS intervention implemented in response to an Regional Directive/Strategy
Unknown
NBS intervention implemented in response to a national regulations/strategy/plan
Yes
Please specify the national regulations/strategy/plan
The Local Plan E is part of the larger national State Fund for Local Investment (FEIL) and National Plan E, a plan and investment structure for the stimulation fo the economy and employment. The fund distributed resources across the different municipalities in Spain for specific projects. (ref 4)
NBS intervention implemented in response to a local regulation/strategy/plan
Yes
Please specify the "local regulation/strategy/plan"
The “General Plan” of the city was modified to in 2009 to include the plan for the extension of urban park area through the Parc de la Mar. (ref 5)

The intervention was introduced as part of the local “Plan E”- a plan outlining the refurbishment of the Marine Façade and the Green Corridor. (ref 3)
Mandatory or voluntary intervention
Mandatory (based on policy)
Intervention is mandatory
Spatial planning guidance
Enablers
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS vision/strategy/plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify
The intervention was introduced as part of the local “Plan E”- a plan outlining the refurbishment and development of the Marine Façade and the Green Corridor. (ref 3)
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS section/part in a more general plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
If there is a relevant strategy or plan, please specify the theme / type of the plan.
General municipal plan
Presence of city network or regional partnerships focused on NBS - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Presence of GI / NBS research project - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Subsidies/investment for GI / NBS in the city - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify
The financing for the plan comes from the local Plan E budget. (ref 1) In the case of the Corridor of the Sea will 4.2 million without VAT be invested from the state fund” (ref 2)
Co-finance for NBS
Unknown
Co-financing governance arrangements
Unknown
Was this co-governance arrangement already in place, or was it set up specifically for this NBS?
Unknown
Financing
Total cost
Less than €10,000
What is/was the Cost/Budget (EUR) of the NBS or green infrastructure elements?
4.2 million euros without taxes.
What are the total amount of expected annual maintenance costs?
Unknown
What is the expected annual maintenance costs of the NBS or GI elements?
Unknown
Please specify cost savings
Unknown
Please specify total cost (EUR)
The municipality will “finance with funds from the new Plan E. In the case of the Corridor of the Sea will 4.2 million without VAT be invested from the state fund” (ref 2)
Source(s) of funding
Public national budget
Public local authority budget
Type of fund(s) used
Earmarked public budget
Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)
Non-financial contribution
Unknown
Business models
Risk reduction model
Green densification model
Vacant space model
Which of the involved actors was motivated by this model?
Public actor (e.g. municipality)
Type of innovation
System innovation
Please specify system innovation
The intervention, being part of Plan E, is meant to increase employment and increase access to the coastline as the two main goals. The combination of the technical design of the project for increasing green space along the coastline to have an impact on creating new jobs and helping the social conditions is what makes it a system innovation.
Novelty level of the innovation
Ambiguous (e.g. multiple interpretations)
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
The intervention will form part of the Corridor of the Sea, a larger project enlarging the green areas as a park. Consequently, its actions follow within the plans of this larger intervention. (ref 1)
Replicability/Transferability
The innovation is not referred to as being transferred to new initiative(s)
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
Unknown
Impacts, benefits
Environmental impacts
Climate change
Lowered local temperature
Strengthened capacity to address climate hazards/natural disasters
Environmental quality
Improved air quality
Green space and habitat
Increased green space area
Increased ecological connectivity across regeneration sites and scales
Please specify other economic impact
Support for means of transport (Ref 1).
Description of environmental benefits
The project had the following impacts:
- Improvement of ecosystem connection of green spaces with the sea (Ref 5).
- Reduction of heatwaves in the area (Ref 5).
- Improves the adaptation to climate change (Ref 5).
- Improves biodiversity (Ref 5).
- Increased access to green spaces (Ref 5).
Economic impacts
Increase of green jobs (e.g. paid employment positions)
Other
Please specify other socio-cultural impact
Cultural heritage and sense of place - Creation of socio-cultural events, as well as welfare activities.
Description of economic benefits
New infrastructure will be built that will support sustainable and non-motorized means of transport (Ref 1), while giving jobs for the construction of it (Ref 2).
Social and cultural impacts
Social justice and cohesion
Improved access to urban green space
Health and wellbeing
Gain in activities for recreation and exercise
Cultural heritage and sense of place
Promotion of cultural diversity
Increased appreciation for natural spaces
Education
Increased support for education and scientific research
Other
Description of social and cultural benefits
There will be the creation of employment to construct this corridor (Ref 2). Also, there will be the creation of socio-cultural areas, for recreation, education, sport and commerce to improve well-being (Ref 3). The project includes three buildings that can serve as cultural houses, libraries, museums, association centers, and social clubs. These buildings have not yet been constructed (Ref 5).
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts
Achieved impacts
Indicators
- 70 jobs created in the project- One of the objectives of Plan E (financing fund for the project) is the creation or maintenance of jobs: economic development. (ref 2)
- 40 000 m2 extension to the park, to be part of the Seaside corridor: green space, urban development. (ref 1)
- “The green sea corridor is strategic. It is the most central and most Positive impact on Palma's urban sustainability.” (ref 1)
Environmental, social and economic impacts
Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
Regeneration, land-use and urban development
Economic development and employment (SDG 8)
Analysis of specific impact categories
Job creation: The NBS created ...
Paid employment positions
Please specify other method used to evaluate the impacts of NBS
Unknown
Negative impacts: Did the project cause any problems or concerns?
No information was found regarding negative impacts of the project
COVID-19 pandemic
Unknown as of July 2020
Methods of impact monitoring
Process of recording NBS impacts
No evidence in public records
Methods used to evaluate the impacts of NBS
Unknown
Evidence for use of assessment
Presence of an assessment, evaluation and/or monitoring process
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
Impact assessment mechanism
Name of any specific impact assessment tools
Unknown
Use of GIS in mapping impacts
Yes
Link to GIS monitoring data
https://www.palma.cat/portal/PALMA/RecursosWeb/DOCUMENTOS/1/0_17536_1.pdf
Citizen involvement
Citizens involvement in assessment/evaluation
Yes
Mode(s) of citizen involvement in evaluation/assessment
Submission of monitoring data (citizen observation)
Please specify other modes of citizen involvement in evaluation/assessment
The modifications to the General Plan of the City were done by consulting 256 public responses to the proposal plans of the project. (ref 3)
Citizens involvement in the analysis of the assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Follow-up to the evaluation / assessment
Unknown
References
Web links relevant to the intervention
El Corredor de la mar: La Nova Facana Maritima. Retrieved August 14, 2017,
L’Ajuntament de Palma presenta al nou Plan E els parcs del corredor de la mar i…
Cort iniciará las obras del Parc de les Vies y del Corredor de la Mar con el nu…
Regulación y Funcionamiento del FEIL. Impacto Territorial de los Fondos de Inve…
Documents relevant to the intervention
Attachment Size
Project explanation (Ref 3) (1.37 MB) 1.37 MB
List of references
1. PSOE. (n.d.) L’Ajuntament de Palma presenta al nou Plan E els parcs del corredor de la mar i el corredor de ses vies. Available at: http://web.psoe.es/palmanord/news/422076/page/lajuntament-palma-presenta-nou-plan-els-parcs-del-corredor-la-mar-corredor-ses-vies.html (Accessed 29 July 2020)
2. Capo, Josep. (2009). Cort iniciará las obras del Parc de les Vies y del Corredor de la Mar con el nuevo Plan E. Palma de Mallorca: Diario de Mallorca. Available at: http://www.diariodemallorca.es/palma/2009/12/17/cort-iniciara-obras-parc-les-vies-corredor-mar-nuevo-plan-e/530786.html (Accessed 29 July 2020)
3. Ayuntamiento de Palma. (n.d.). El Corredor de la mar: La Nova Facana Maritima. Palma de Mallorca: Ajuntament de Palma. Available at : http://www.palma.cat/portal/PALMA/RecursosWeb/DOCUMENTOS/1/0_17536_1.pdf (Accessed 29 July 2020)
4. Ministerio de Política Territorial y Administración Públic. (n.d.). Regulación y Funcionamiento del FEIL. Impacto Territorial de los Fondos de Inversión Local. Available at: http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/fondosinversionlocal/regulacion-y-funcionamiento.html (Accessed 29 July 2020)
5. Cronica balear. (2020). El nuevo Plan General prevé aumentar las zonas verdes de Palma en un 61,83%. Palma de Mallorca: Cronica Balear. https://www.cronicabalear.es/2020/07/el-nuevo-plan-general-preve-aumentar-las-zonas-verdes-de-palma-en-un-6183/
Comments and notes
Additional insights
Project included in the Plan E Project Database, under “ CORREDOR VERDE DEL FRENTE MARÍTIMO DE PALMA” (ref 4)
Pictures of the NBS
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Public Images
Planned intervention Area for the Sea's Corridor
Planned intervention Area for the Sea's Corridor (Ref 3)
Source: Ref. 3