Key documents and links

Management effectiveness in the EU’s Natura 2000 network of protected areas:

Briefing: https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/natura-2000/management-effectiveness-in-the-eu

Report: https://cmshare.eea.europa.eu/s/fPAH9bHrrkY6pc9#pdfviewer

Building a coherent Trans-EuropeanNature Network:

Briefing: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/building-a-coherent-trans-european

Report: https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/green-infrastructure/building-a-coherent-trans-european/contributions-to-building-a-coherent

Tools to support green infrastructure planning and ecosystem restoration:

• Briefing: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tools-to-support-green-infrastructure

• Strategic Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Restoration (The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the EEA and the Directorate-General for Environment of the European Commission 2019).

• Green Infrastructure and Flood Management (EEA report 2017)

• Spatial analysis of green infrastructure in Europe (EEA report 2014)

• Exploring nature-based solutions — The role of green infrastructure in mitigating the impacts of weather- and climate change-related natural hazards (EEA report 2015)

• Building a Green Infrastructure for Europe

• LIFE building up Europe’s green infrastructure

• Green Infrastructure – Training manual for trainers

• Green infrastructure and territorial cohesion (EEA report 2011)

Further reading

European Commission’s central page on green infrastructure, including a lot of background studies

Wealth of information on Green Infrastructure is available in the BISE Catalogue

LinkedIn group: European Green Infrastructure Practitioners’ Network

CEEweb for Biodiversity and ECNC: Green Infrastructure Knowledge Hub