Enroll now in this professional master’s degree and stand out as a cutting-edge engineer, deepening in Biology and ecology of the landscape, Arboriculture and Ecosystem Restoration”

Lead the urban change of the future with the keys provided by this professional master’s degree, developed by the best experts in Sustainable Green Infrastructures”

This professional master’s degree in Design of Sustainable Green Infrastructures contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in Design of Sustainable Green Infrastructures
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Delve into the design of ecological functionalities, tools for monitoring environmental status and management models to improve the habitability of the most avant-garde”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.  

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professionals with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.  
The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

Enroll now in this program and do not miss the opportunity to analyze, through practical and real cases, the most successful models of sustainable urban infrastructure today”

Access all the material whenever you want from any device with Internet connection”

Considering that the trend towards green urban spaces is growing and unstoppable, the primary objective of this professional master’s degree could not be other than to provide the engineers with the keys, tools and working techniques with which to update themselves in a booming field. Thus, the entire program will have a strong practical approach, guided by the examples and case studies analyzed throughout the program. 

Incorporate into your work methodology the most current urban analysis and monitoring tools, with a focus on sustainable green spaces and infrastructures”

General Objectives

• Provide a rationale for the current context of sustainable urban development
• Analyze the main global reference strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
• Protecting and promoting Urban Biodiversity 
• Communicate through visualization of good environmental management 
• Analyze different nature-based solutions as city transformers

Specific Objectives 

Module 1. Dynamization of Green Zones 

• Substantiate the dynamization as a vital part of an urban green area
• Analyze the different options that each green zone offers us
• Develop attractive and coherent proposals that are not supported by public entities
• Identify the weak points of a green infrastructure and mitigate them with dynamic proposals
• Analyze, in early projects, where private investment can act in a green infrastructure
• Determine which activities or facilities are likely to be implemented
• Evaluate the economic and social impact of the implemented leisure activities
• Analyze the small and large infrastructures to be installed in green areas, children's areas, use and maintenance
• Compile the different options offered by leisure in existing green spaces
• Demonstrate that properly implemented leisure is a saving for the public purse and a very beneficial source of attraction
• Examine the type of dynamic recreation that a green space can support

Module 2. Urban Green Infrastructure Strategic Planning

• Analyze the key concepts in strategic planning of green infrastructure, within the existing policy or regulatory framework and possible scenarios
• Develop the possible phases necessary to carry out strategic planning, ranging from objective setting, information gathering and analysis, participation, situation diagnosis, action plans to monitoring and evaluation or communication
• Demonstrating the effectiveness of strategic planning through real-life success stories
• Connecting natural capital and consolidating urban green infrastructure
• Rethink investment and management towards models based on sustainability and the fight against climate change
• Encourage participation. Implement in the management itself the processes that promote citizen participation and involvement in the development of the city's green infrastructure
• Advance in the rebalancing of the city's green infrastructure, establishing a system of dynamic diagnosis of the city's green infrastructure to derive strategic proposals that correct imbalances, identify opportunities and enhance the differentiating values of the neighborhoods and promote new centers
• Periodically evaluate the actions proposed in the plan with a commitment to address the results with actions
• Improve communication and awareness and guarantee citizens' right of access to information related to green infrastructure

Module 3. Monitoring and follow-up of indicators and technology applied to the management and planning of sustainable urban infrastructure

• Generate specialized knowledge on technologies for the development and monitoring of indicators
• Establish strategies for prioritizing actions based on indicators
• Analyze environmental impacts on cities and the need to have objective data to improve them
• Determining the system of indicators best suited to the improvement objective being pursued
• Elaborate a good prior diagnosis based on indicators to be successful in the elaboration of strategic plans
• Examine the different categories of indicator groups
• Substantiate the Smart City as an example of technology incorporation for the improvement of quality of life
• Evaluate existing data visualization and analysis systems
• Analyze the potential of Earth Observation data for the generation of Urban Sustainability indicators

Module 4. Infrastructure to improve the livability of cities

• Examine the ecosystem services that green infrastructure offers us
• Develop methodologies for analyzing the impact of green infrastructure on people's quality of life
• Analyze new techniques to promote the development of green infrastructure
• Generate opportunities for the participation of stakeholders in the management of green infrastructure and in the enjoyment of its ecosystem services
• Analyze the ESSES offered by the IVU in cities
• Evaluate the economic and social impact of the benefits of UVI on the health and quality of life of citizens
• Develop the therapeutic benefits of IVs as health recuperators
• Identify the actors involved in the management and promotion of IV to achieve holistic management of their EHCS
• Analyze how to involve citizens by managing stakeholders' expectations
• Discover success stories and innovative experiences in the field of IVU management

Module 5. Infrastructures for urban resilience

• Develop the concepts of urban resilience to climate change and analyze adaptation and mitigation needs and the difference between the two
• Analyze the elements of green infrastructure that are directly or indirectly related to urban adaptation to change
• Assess the direct relationship between exposure to nature and public, physical, and mental health
• Recognize the elements of green infrastructure present in our immediate environment in the city
• Identify the items of contribution to energy efficiency of green infrastructure elements
• Evaluate the implication of green infrastructure on the health and well-being of the inhabitants of the urban environment. Socialization and empowerment of the sense of belonging
• Evaluate the projection of current green infrastructure actions for future cities

Module 6. Social infrastructures and experiences of Urban Green Infrastructure (IVU)

• Generate specialized knowledge on the planning and management of an urban park
• Apply citizen participation methodology in the different steps of planning formulation
• Analyze the strategic and operational planning of urban parks
• Understand and encourage active citizen participation in parks
• Examine different urban park management models
• Understand the strategic partners of parks
• Determine the importance of user-driven park design
• Identify, design and implement tools for participatory analysis and design
• Identify, design and implement participatory analysis and design tools

Module 7. Technical planning of urban trees

• Train in the study of the diagnosis of a city's tree population
• Examine the services and disservices provided by ornamental public trees
• Acquiring skills for the management of public trees
• Learn how to assess using specific calculation tools
• Face the problems of creating new spaces where existing trees need to be introduced or modified in a sustainable manner
• Identify the main barriers to management based on ecosystem services for urban tree species
• Inventory and identify the most common tree management problems
• Apply valuation standards
• Elaborate tree master plans
• Manage trees in urban works and infrastructures
• Identify the danger parameters of a tree and the work to be carried out in each case to minimize risk
• Develop tools for the selection of species adapted to climate change
• Establish monitoring programs for tree management based on KPIs

Module 8. Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Planning 

• Determine the aspects and objectives on which green infrastructure has the greatest impact on the sustainable development of towns and cities
• Develop the different strategies and initiatives for sustainable development at a global level
• Analyze the concept of Urban Sustainability
• Explore the main objectives and challenges of sustainable urban development strategies
• Examine the objectives of sustainable development most closely linked to urban development, cities and green infrastructure
• Assess the different experiences implemented by city networks and reference cities at the global level
• Raise awareness and empower students in the field of sustainable urban development

Module 9. Measuring, quantifying, valuing and mapping ecosystem services

• Analyze the rationale for measuring Ecosystem Services
• Identify ecosystem services assessment tools
• Examine ecosystem services measurement and valuation models
• Establish the products and needs for each tool
• Determine the set of ecosystem services that can be assessed by each tool
• Carry out a comparison of ESS assessment tools with the standard criteria
• Deepen the management of i-Tree
• Size the projects according to the particularity of the ecosystem services and the type of infrastructure to be quantified
• Evaluate the gaps and opportunities for improving the quality of EESS based on the data obtained
• Propose governance for ecosystem-based adaptation

Module 10. Natural capital in urban infrastructures

• Develop the concept of Nature, a new paradigm of economy
• Analyze the global framework for biodiversity and natural capital
• Identify the components of urban green infrastructure
• Learn to value the importance of nature
• Assessing the risks and opportunities associated with the new global framework
• Substantiate the new global legislative framework in relation to biodiversity and natural capital
• Determine the new European legislative framework and the implications for business
• Identify the components of urban green infrastructure: assets and ecosystem services
• Establish frameworks for measuring, valuing and accounting for nature's benefits to society and frameworks for measuring, valuing and accounting for impacts
• Examine the sustainability standards for urban infrastructure
• Categorize and understand the different risks to nature
• Evaluate the opportunities associated with the natural capital approach
• Compile natural capital and ecosystem services-based management and financing models
• Analyze in early projects where private investment in green infrastructure can play a role
• Realizing Nature-Based Solutions and natural capital
• Evaluate the economic and social impact of Nature-Based Solutions

You will be able to rely on a qualification that will boost your management of Sustainable Urban Green Infrastructures based on international benchmark models worldwide”