Green Infrastructure Department
The quality of life in Bratislava is significantly linked to the ability of natural, semi-natural and man-made ecosystems to provide certain benefits or advantages.
These include, for example, cooling the air during the summer heat, protecting against flooding during heavy rains, filtering pollutants from the air, creating fresh water, supporting biodiversity, and creating pleasant spaces for regeneration, relaxation, and more. One of the main “carriers” of these benefits in the urban environment is green and blue infrastructure.
Green-Blue Infrastructure (GBI) works best when its parts are well connected. In the urbanised environment, it is an important tool in increasing resilience to the effects of climate change, improving the quality of public space and developing the city in a sustainable way.
The role of the department is to:
- Conception and hierarchisation of the city’s green and blue infrastructure for spatial planning purposes.
- Development of specialised methodologies in the field of regulatory frameworks for green-blue infrastructure, ecosystem services assessment and increasing the city’s resilience to climate change, usable for spatial and strategic planning purposes.
- Application of these methodologies, e.g. in the preparation of studies, master plans, amendments to the spatial plan, in projects carried out by other MIB and city departments.
- Visualisation of these findings and outputs in an attractive way, also using map applications.
- Creation of other specialised outputs according to requirements.
