LUIGI 
Linking Urban and Inner-Alpine Green Infrastructure - Multifunctional Ecosystem Services for more liveable territories
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Overview

The Alpine Space hosts a great variety of spaces connecting mountain ecosystems and urban centres (e.g. orchards, forests, rivers). Each of these natural or semi-natural spaces, also called green infrastructures, bring environmental, economical and societal benefits and ecosystem services: supply of food, water, recreation areas, and climate regulation. LUIGI explored those ecosystem services and strengthened the link between mountain ecosystems and urban centres at the foot of the Alps, based on sound economic and social exchanges. The project supported the recognition and valorisation of joint benefits deriving from a green infrastructure network between mountain/rural and urban areas as well as their potential for a sustainable economic development.

Factsheet

  • 2014 – 2020
  • Liveable
  • Enhance the protection, the conservation and the ecological connectivity of Alpine Space ecosystems
    • Group 7: To develop ecological connectivity in the whole EUSALP territory
  • 10/2019
  • 06/2022
  • 2.534.453 EUR
  • 1.986.706 EUR

Partners

Metropolitan City of Milan (Lead partner)
  • Lead partner
  • Italy
  • Lombardia
  • Milano
    Lombardy Foundation for the Environment
    • Italy
    • Lombardia
    • Seveso
        Metropolitan city of Turin
        • Italy
        • Piemonte
        • Torino
            European Academy Bozen
            • Italy
            • Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano/Bozen
            • Bolzano
                Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry
                • Germany
                • Oberbayern
                • Munchen
                    Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
                    • Germany
                    • Oberbayern
                    • Freising
                        Grenoble-Alpes Métropolis
                        • France
                        • Rhône-Alpes
                        • Grenoble cedex
                            ALPARC – Alpine Network of Protected Areas
                            • France
                            • Rhône-Alpes
                            • Chambéry
                                Regional management Burgenland
                                • Austria
                                • Burgenland (AT)
                                • Bad Tatzmannsdorf
                                    Salzburg Institute for Regional Planning and Housing
                                    • Austria
                                    • Salzburg
                                    • Salzburg
                                        Foundation Pro Terra Engadine
                                        • Switzerland
                                        • OstSwitzerland
                                        • Zernez
                                            Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
                                            • Switzerland
                                            • NordwestSwitzerland
                                            • Frick
                                                Agricultural Institute of Slovenia
                                                • Slovenia
                                                • Zahodna Slovenia
                                                • Ljubljana
                                                    Development Agency of Idrija and Cerkno
                                                    • Slovenia
                                                    • Zahodna Slovenia
                                                    • Idrija
                                                        Etablissement d’Enseignement Supérieur Consulaire Grenoble Ecole de Management
                                                        • France
                                                        • Rhône-Alpes
                                                        • Grenoble
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                                                            Outcomes


                                                            • Spotlight the multiple benefits (ecological, economic, social and cultural) of GI as "common natural capital" and ESS providers

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                                                              State of the art & guidelines for conserving and enhancing multiple ESS provision from GIs

                                                            • Tools and mechanisms for enhancing value chains for a more effective cooperation between urban and rural areas

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                                                              Identification and test of ESS stock exchange model methodology

                                                            • Participatory and governance approaches for spatial development of GI in the pilot regions of LUIGI

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                                                              Modules for participatory GI maintenance implemented by a co-creation rocess in the pilot regions

                                                            • Education and training for sustainable GIs management and ESS provision

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                                                              Overview of present education and knowledge transfer mechanisms on GI

                                                            • Education and training for sustainable GIs management and ESS provision

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                                                              Improvements in trainings and teaching assuring sustainable GI development and ESS provision

                                                            • Knowledge transfer to policy makers and integration with transnational networks

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                                                              Capacity building module on GIs enhancement and ESS valorization