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Description

This Life+ project aims to design and develop multifunctional green and blue infrastructure in the Flemish Belt around Brussels and in De Wijers. Urban green and blue infrastructure not only supports the fight against biodiversity loss, it also helps cities to adapt to climate change, thereby generating a high social added value. 

In six project areas in the Flemish Belt around Brussels and in De Wijers the scares remaining open space fragments in a greying peri-urban context are transformed into green/ blue infrastructure. These ecological stepping stones will fulfill multiple functions (ecosystem services), including natural water retention, recreation or form a “green lung”, and thus making an important contribution to urban climate change adaptation.

The Green4Grey project started in 2014 and will be finished in 2019, 4,4 million euros are invested with a European cofinancing of about 50%.

Project information

Lead

Vlaamse Landmaatschappij (Flemish Land Agency)

Partners

None

Source of funding

LIFE

Reference information

Websites:
https://green4grey.be/en

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Jan 1, 1970

Keywords:
green space, land use planning, periurban space, urban area, urban development
Climate impacts:

Flooding

Adaptation Approaches:

Adaptation Measures and Actions, Nature-based solutions

Sectors:

Biodiversity protection, Urban, Water management, Land use planning

Funding Programme:
LIFE - Environment and climate action
Duration:
2014 - 2019
Geographic characterisation:

Europe

Countries:

Netherlands

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