Barcelona
Barcelona will use its unique advocacy role to develop strategic, international city networks. Barcelona will cooperate internationally to share and shape green infrastructure strategies and biodiversity plans at the city level. These networks will be further developed to establish which ecosystem services are provided or deficient in specific city areas; where new green spaces should be sited; and to design future urban ecosystem restoration.
The Barcelona Life-Lab aims to re-green dense urban and deprived neighbourhoods with urban food and amenity interventions, demonstrating improved biodiversity and environmental performance in urban allotment gardens. Each nature-based solution will be monitored for their potential for food production, biodiversity and ecosystem service provisioning, as well as pollutants accumulation, retention and phytoremediation.
A new guidance manual will be provided for nature-based solutions management, drawing on the three CONEXUS design and maintenance protocols. This manual will categorise interventions in various ways, including the type of vegetation, the type of urban green space, the habitat, users' knowledge of health, motivations and opportunities to improve social cohesion.
Conexus Life-Lab Factsheet Series
Monitoring of socio-environmental services of urban green spaces
In recent years, the City of Barcelona has demonstrated its intention of increasing and improving greenery and biodiversity at the service of citizens through a series of policies, plans, measures, and other initiatives. In this pilot, the social and environmental services provided by urban green spaces and green infrastructure in the city are being monitored.
Conexus Life-Lab Factsheet Series
Urban Agriculture Observatory: Social and Ecosystem services
The Urban Agriculture Observatory is a partnership aiming to establish a database of environmental and social aspects of urban allotments and their benefits. Based on the database, a public web platform is created to share collected data and bring urban agriculture closer to citizens. It is intended to position Barcelona as a reference in urban agriculture policies.
Urban Agriculture Observatory:
Barcelona Urban Allotments Analysis
The Barcelona Life-Lab has focused all its efforts on urban agriculture, through the creation of an Urban Agriculture Observatory. Urban allotments, as a nature-based solution, contribute significantly to urban environments as part of green infrastructure. The main objective of the Observatory is to establish a database of the environmental and social aspects of urban allotments and analyze their benefits. They contribute to the Urban Agriculture Observatory to build up a learning community that, collectively, exchanges and shares information, knowledge, ideas, experience, and expertise linked to urban agriculture.
