TY - CHAP
T1 - Urban forest governance
T2 - future - the 100,000 trees project in the Porto Metropolitan Area
AU - Pinto, Marta
AU - Almeida, Conceição
AU - Pereira, Ana Maria
AU - Silva, Margarida
N1 - Funding Information:
There are two main panels working within CRE.Porto. The first is a forum representative of local and regional stakeholders—the Executive Board—whose main functions include outlining joint actions and helping in their implementation. The second panel is the Coordinating Office. This office makes things happen, prompts collaboration, manages joint projects, identifies funding sources, prepares grant applications and organises partner meetings. The Catholic University of Portugal hosts and staffs this second panel, working closely with the PMA regional government (Pinto and Silva 2013). The CRE.Porto was formally recognized by UNU-IAS in 2009.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Porto Metropolitan Area is a region in northern Portugal with approximately 2000 km2. Almost 16 % of the Portuguese population lives in the area, which is structured around the municipality of Porto with 16 other municipalities included. The region is a jigsaw puzzle of urban, agricultural, and forest areas. The Porto Metropolitan Area Environmental Strategic Plan, a broad participatory regional planning process conducted from 2003 to 2008, concluded that major challenges ahead included the improvement of the green infrastructure (forest, riverside areas, and natural corridors), the need for education and training for sustainability, as well as more and better interinstitutional coordination. In order to tackle these vital regional issues several institutions, partners within the framework of the Porto Metropolitan Area Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, decided to collaborate in order to design and implement a flagship project. The FUTURE—the 100,000 trees project in the Porto Metropolitan Area is the outcome of this process. Its purpose is to create, restore and care for native urban forests in the region with active involvement of the main stakeholders (landowners, citizens, local governments, central government, companies, non-governmental organisations, and schools, among others). Our aim is to present the case study of this project describing its context, scale, institutional framework, actors and partnerships, resources and processes, highlighting its governance model.
AB - The Porto Metropolitan Area is a region in northern Portugal with approximately 2000 km2. Almost 16 % of the Portuguese population lives in the area, which is structured around the municipality of Porto with 16 other municipalities included. The region is a jigsaw puzzle of urban, agricultural, and forest areas. The Porto Metropolitan Area Environmental Strategic Plan, a broad participatory regional planning process conducted from 2003 to 2008, concluded that major challenges ahead included the improvement of the green infrastructure (forest, riverside areas, and natural corridors), the need for education and training for sustainability, as well as more and better interinstitutional coordination. In order to tackle these vital regional issues several institutions, partners within the framework of the Porto Metropolitan Area Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development, decided to collaborate in order to design and implement a flagship project. The FUTURE—the 100,000 trees project in the Porto Metropolitan Area is the outcome of this process. Its purpose is to create, restore and care for native urban forests in the region with active involvement of the main stakeholders (landowners, citizens, local governments, central government, companies, non-governmental organisations, and schools, among others). Our aim is to present the case study of this project describing its context, scale, institutional framework, actors and partnerships, resources and processes, highlighting its governance model.
KW - Governance
KW - Native urban forests
KW - Planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048028057&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-32318-3_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-32318-3_12
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85048028057
SN - 9783319323176
T3 - World Sustainability Series
SP - 187
EP - 202
BT - Biodiversity and education for sustainable development
A2 - Castro, Paula
A2 - Azeiteiro, Ulisses M.
A2 - Bacelar-Nicolau, Paula
A2 - Filho, Walter Leal
A2 - Azul, Anabela Marisa
PB - Springer Boston
CY - Cham
ER -
