Develop your skills and understanding to manage Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services and lead for sustainability. Create sustainable environmental policies and shape tomorrow’s green communities. Professionals working with Green Infrastructure (GI) come from all sorts of backgrounds; ecology, economy, urban planning, and many others. To be effective in creating resilient places and working with the environment to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, they need to draw on all these areas.
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That’s exactly what this five-week course, presented by the Grenoble Ecole de Management, allows you to do.
Get to grips with green infrastructure and ecosystem services
The course begins with an introduction to green infrastructure and ecosystem services, including how these concepts relate to each other and their importance for effective environmental policy.
You’ll also get to reflect on the challenges GI and ecosystem services can help solve and learn to identify practical online tools for GI and ecosystem service management.
Make informed decisions and develop solutions for sustainability in rural and urban areas
As well as giving you an understanding of Green Infrastructure and ecosystem services, this course will show you how to implement what you learn.
Discover how to maximise benefits for people and nature, overcome governance issues, manage GI networks, collaborate with others to unlock funding, and ultimately make key decisions that lead to more sustainable living and more resilient places.
Learn from the experts at Grenoble Ecole de Management
Renowned business school Grenoble Ecole de Management, with its Chair for Inclusive Sustainability, is especially suited to deliver this course, thanks to the policy and integration expert leading content development, and to its affiliation with the LUIGI project.
The LUIGI project involves experts in varied fields from all the Alpine countries, coming together to develop understanding and methods on green infrastructure.
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to working with Green Infrastructure
Week 2: What is a multifunctional GI network?
Week 3: Policy & Context
Week 4: GI Governance & Management - Part 1
Week 5: GI Governance & Management - Part 2
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Green Infrastructure (GI) and Ecosystem Services (ESS)
- Explore how GI and ESS relate to and matter for your area of work/study and identify GI and ESS present in your area
- Reflect on the wider environmental policy context for GI and ESS (climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental injustice)
- Identify what practical tools and resources are available online for GI / ESS management
- Investigate how to identify and maximise benefits generated by GI/ESS and understand how to apply that knowledge to your area
- Explore where GI governance issues come from and how to overcome them by generating engagement and communicating on GI/ESS benefits
- Collaborate with stakeholders to unlock investments and resources for GI and GI network management
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone with an interest in green infrastructure management at any level, from local to transnational.
It will be especially useful for public administrators, policy-makers, private sector business owners, and charitable organisations.
