1. General information
Location and description of the intervention
City or FUA
Rio de Janeiro
Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Native title of the NBS intervention
Corredor Verde Recreio
Short description of the intervention
The Recreio green corridor project, launched in 2012 by the Municipal Secretariat for the Environment and several city departments, aims to protect and enhance the rich biodiversity and ecosystems of the area, to help with the resilience and adaptation of the west side of the city, an area affected by coastal flooding and erosion. The project mostly focused on preserving, connecting, and expanding the existing local urban nature elements and protecting their ecology. Lastly, the project also aimed to educate the residents about native vegetation and help build social interaction and cohesion between the local communities [Ref 1]. The project was designed to preserve and connect 320.76 ha of protected areas and add 60.73 ha of open public spaces and squares. And in total, the corridor has a linear extension of close to 8 kilometers, passing through very diverse urban areas (Ref. 7), including natural parks, a lagoon system, water canals, and social housing areas.
Address

Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Río de Janeiro - Estado de Río de Janeiro, Brasil
Río de Janeiro
22795-445
Brazil

Area boundary
POINT (-43.47503 -23.02343)
POINT (-43.47179 -23.030063)
POINT (-43.28734 -23.01113)
POINT (-43.2923 -23.00269)
NBS area image
Source of NBS area image
1. Corredor Verde Do Recreio( 2016), Slideshare.Net. Available at https://www.slideshare.net/Instituto_Arquitetos/corredor-verde-do-recreio...(Retrieved 27-8-2021)
Total area
3800000.00m²
NBS area
3800000.00m²
Type of area before implementation of the NBS
Timeline of intervention
Start date of the intervention (planning process)
2012
Start date of intervention (implementation process)
2012
End date of the intervention
unknown
Present stage of the intervention
Goals of the intervention
-Protect and enhance the local rich biodiversity, maintain the ecosystem services that help with improving the resilience of the region [Ref.1].
-Connect the natural parks of Marapendi, Chico Mendes and Prainha, including the Rangel Hill (an Inepac Designated Cultural Area) [Ref.1].
-Preserve native species of fauna and flora, as well as locally endangered species (e.g. caimans, capybaras, and the beach butterfly) (Ref. 1).
-Promoting free circulation between parks[Ref.1, 2], and connect the core areas that present less human use, multifunctional streets, roads with ‘green islands’ in the middle as corridors [Ref.1].
-Expansion of the water supply and sewage collection networks, including water retention and drainage [Ref.5].
-Protect coastal areas from erosion landslides and floods [Ref.1,5].
- Create opportunities for clean mobility, with comfortable and safe bike lanes and walkways, and the enhancement of public transportation with green bus stops (Ref. 1).
-The project aims to introduce an environmental education program to involve the local residents by promoting community gardening, and the program is focused on raising awareness about biodiversity and urban ecosystems [Ref.1, 5].
Quantitative targets
-Preserve and connect 320.76 ha of protected areas and add 60.73 ha of open public spaces and squares [Ref.1]
-Locally endangered 3 species such as caimans, capybaras, and the beach butterfly have been targeted to be repopulated [Ref.1].
Monitoring indicators defined
Unknown
Climate change adaptation: What were the goals of the NBS?
Habitats and biodiversity conservation: What types of conservation goals are / were defined for the NBS intervention?
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
The Recreio green corridor targeted the protection of many core areas, removed invasive species and introduced native vegetation, with a special focus on caimans and capybara caimans, capybaras, and the beach butterfly populations, at the same time allowing for people to observe these animals (with no physical contact). All core areas are protected by fences to avoid the transit of animals out of the protected areas and to limit the circulation of people in those areas. The project also expanded the quantity of green and blue infrastructures such as green "roofs and walls, multifunctional streets, collector roads with ‘green islands’ the middle as corridors of biodiversity and connectors with the urban tissue.” Additionally, the project developed and implemented educational campaigns to raise environmental awareness to educate the residents [Ref.1,4,6].
The project was multiscale as it was ranging from macro-level to micro-level -from lagoon system water catchments to local interventions (expansion of water supply and sewage collection networks, including water-retention and drainage) [Ref.5].
No new information was found regarding the progress of the project. (as fo August 28, 2021)
NBS domain and interventions
Ecological domain(s) where the NBS intervention(s) is/are implemented
Blue infrastructure
Lakes/ponds
Rivers/streams/canals/estuaries
Coastlines
Community gardens and allotments
Community gardens
Green areas for water management
Sustainable urban drainage systems
Parks and urban forests
Pocket parks/neighbourhood green spaces
Green corridors and green belts
Please specify the number of plots or allotment gardens
Unknown
Vegetation Type
Please specify how many trees were planted
Unknown
Please specify other amenities offered by the NBS
Bicycle lanes (Ref. 1)
Amenities offered by the NBS
Services
Expected ecosystem services delivered
Regulating services
Coastal protection
Flood regulation
Habitat and supporting services
Habitats for species
Maintenance of genetic diversity
Cultural services
Physical and experiential interactions with plants and animals
Social and community interactions
Scale
Spatial scale
Meso-scale: Regional, metropolitan and urban level
Beneficiaries
Governance
Governance arrangements
Non-government actors
Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)
Please specify the roles of the specific government and non-government actor groups involved in the initiative
The plan of the green corridor was developed by an interdepartmental study done by the City’s Environmental Department with 20 specialists from 8 city departments such as; Coordenação do Proteção Ambiental (CPA), Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente (SMAC), among other municipal institutions. The municipality environmental department was responsible for the project implementation and community engagement [Ref. 1,2,3].
The Mosaico Carioca blog is an open channel of communication between Civil Society, Conservation Units, and Protected Areas located in the metropolitan area of the city of Rio de Janeiro. “The Carioca Mosaic of Protected Areas is part of a program encouraged by the MMA with a legal basis through the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC); and aims to integrate actions between the Protected Areas involved” [Ref.1,2].
Key actors - initiating organization
Key actors - Other stakeholders involved (besides initiating actors)
Local government/municipality
Citizens or community group
Participatory methods/forms of community involvement used
Policy drivers
NBS intervention implemented in response to an Regional Directive/Strategy
No
NBS intervention implemented in response to a national regulations/strategy/plan
Unknown
NBS intervention implemented in response to a local regulation/strategy/plan
Yes
Please specify the "local regulation/strategy/plan"
The NBS intervention was implemented as part of the municipal plan to conserve and restore the west coast of the city of Rio de Janeiro, developed by the Municipal Secretary of the Environment in 2012 [Ref. 1].
Mandatory or voluntary intervention
Mandatory (based on policy)
Intervention is mandatory
Enablers
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS vision/strategy/plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
Presence of specific city-level GI/NBS section/part in a more general plan - mentioned in connection to the project
Unknown
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
No
Subsidies/investment for GI / NBS in the city - mentioned in connection to the project
Yes
Please specify
Environmental compensation was the main source of financial resources [Ref.1].
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?
Financing
Total cost
What is/was the Cost/Budget (EUR) of the NBS or green infrastructure elements?
Unknown
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)
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
Type of fund(s) used
Non-financial contribution
Unknown
Which of the involved actors was motivated by this model?
Please specify technological innovation
The Recreio green corridor project was designed to preserve, connect and expand protected areas. One of the components of this project was to connect the natural parks of Marapendi, Chico Mendes and Prainha, including the Rangel Hill (an Inepac Designated Cultural Area)[ Ref.1].
Please specify social innovation
The project developers started a social campaign through Mosaico Carioca blog is an open channel of communication between Civil Society, Conservation Units and Protected Areas located in the metropolitan area of the city of Rio de Janeiro [Ref.2].
Novelty level of the innovation
Please specify novelty level of the innovation
Unknown
Replicability/Transferability
Please specify Replicability/Transferability
Unknown
Impacts, benefits
Description of environmental benefits
Environmental recovery achievements have been realized through the Recreio green corridor between the natural parks of Marapendi, Chico Mendes, Prainha and Rangel Hill.
The corridor provided green connections and ecosystem integration by improving and increase the green areas, maintaining biodiversity through introducing a community garden/bed of seedlings.
The project also managed invasive species and introduced native vegetation along the canal, using native species in landscaping (mangrove reforestation of the strip around the lagoon) and green areas such as green roofs and walls. The project also determined to reduce the effects of coastal flooding, through macro-drainage designed to eliminate the risks of flooding and its consequences [Ref.1,3,4,5,6].
Economic impacts
Description of economic benefits
Unknown
Description of social and cultural benefits
The Recreio green corridor project resulted in a series of benefits to both nature and society through a set of coordinated actions, that resulted in making the urban matrix more permeable to the flow of people and animals, increases environmental comfort, improves access to public open space, as well as improving the offer of leisure and sport activities [Ref.3,4,5].
Also, the project provided possibilities for clean mobility, with comfortable and safe bike lanes and walkways. (Ref. 1).
Environmental education programmes have been developed and implemented to engage and educate the residents and raise awareness about the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services for quality of life and wellbeing. (Ref. 1).
Type of reported impacts
Indicators
Unknown
Analysis of specific impact categories
Job creation: The NBS created ...
Environmental justice: The implementation of the NBS project resulted in ...
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
Please specify the negative impacts
• The city administration has no real interest in the restoration project.
• There is a slum that occupies the borders of the canal.
• Some parts of Recreio green corridor are dominated by militia, and they occupy
vulnerable and biodiversity-rich areas without public control.
• The area receives raw sewage in the waters, and the eutrophication is destroying the
underwater life. Caimans are mostly male, because the eggs of females don’t hatch
due to the high temperature caused by excessive organic matter in the environment.
• There are conflicting issues with wildlife: caimans must be separated from people;
capybaras are vectors of the tick that transmit Lyme disease
COVID-19 pandemic
Unknown, August 19, 2021
Methods of impact monitoring
Methods used to evaluate the impacts of NBS
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
No evidence in public records
Citizen involvement
Citizens involvement in assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Mode(s) of citizen involvement in evaluation/assessment
Citizens involvement in the analysis of the assessment/evaluation
Unknown
Follow-up to the evaluation / assessment
Unknown
References
List of references
1. Recreio green corridor. (2018). Oppla.Eu. Available at: https://oppla.eu/casestudy/20074
2. Mosaico Carioca. (2012). Retrieved 28 July 2021, from https://mosaico-carioca.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-05-23T22:41:00-03:00&max-results=3
3. Corredor Verde Recreio. (2021). Retrieved 28 August 2021, from https://www.embya.com.br/case/corredor-verde-recreio-2
4. Recreio Green Corridor – Landscape as Urbanism in the Americas. (2015). Retrieved 28 July 2021, from https://landscapeasurbanismamericas.net/recreio-green-corridor/
5.Corredor Verde do Recreio. (2016). Retrieved 28 August 2021, from https://www.slideshare.net/Instituto_Arquitetos/corredor-verde-do-recreio
6. A busca contínua por soluções sustentáveis e acessos mais adequados à água e ao saneamento - Rio Capital Mundial da Arquitetura. (2020). Retrieved 28 August 2021, from https://capitalmundialdaarquitetura.rio/rio-capital-mundial-da-arquitetura/a-busca-continua-por-solucoes-sustentaveis-e-acessos-mais-adequados-a-agua-e-ao-saneamento/
7. Def projetos (2020) Corredor Verde Recreio - Rio de Janeiro . RJ . Brasil, 2015 . 2011 - Projeto em implementação. Retrieved 1 September 2021, from https://www.defprojetos.com/corredor-verde



Comments and notes
Public Images
Image
Landscape ecology of the city to identify the potential connectivity corridors and buffer zones [Ref.1]
Recreio green corridor
Source: Ref. 1