BLUE-GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AS A TOOL FOR CONNECTING AGRICULTURAL AND URBAN LAND

Abstract

Urbanization and expansion of urban territory is a global trend that affects all major cities in the world. For this reason, the quality of the urban environment is increasingly important for human health and well-being. One increasingly popular element to improve and address the challenges associated with a warming urbanized landscape is blue-green infrastructure (BGI). Blue-green infrastructure is mainly associated with the urbanized landscape and its integration into the urban environment. In our post, we will focus on the agricultural landscape, which is in close proximity to the city of Trnava, Slovakia. The administrative territory of the city of Trnava is characterized by a low degree of ecological stability with a lack of natural elements of the landscape structure. Current vegetation in the territory of the city of Trnava (7,153 ha) is divided and represented into landscape - outside the built-up area (2.18%), urban - in the built-up area (35.40%) (Department of Spatial Development and Concepts of the City of Trnava). The aim of the contribution is to present solutions in the "Strkovisko" district, where we proposed a network of natural and near-natural measures to mitigate climate impacts related to climate change for the construction of BGI. The proposed location was designated as arable land with an area of 11.91 ha, which will be transformed into a plot of land with purpose-built agricultural protection and ecological greenery against erosive measures and measures to ensure the ecological stability of the territory. The article introduces the reader to the benefits of BGI and describes the proposed elements to mitigate climate change with an emphasis on landscape activities.