Green infrastructure: concepts, typologies, and terminology in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Maria Fernanda Nóbrega dos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Enokibara, Marta
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Paisagem e Ambiente (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/paam/article/view/174804
• topic: Landscape architecture; Green infrastructure; Literature review; Arquitetura paisagística; Infraestrutura Verde; Revisão da literatura

Green infrastructure (GI) has emerged in the last decade as an interdisciplinary research field, capable of addressing environmental, economic and social issues in the development of more sustainable urban design. To achieve these objectives, professionals from several areas must engage in planning, and they often diverge on the meaning and scope of GI. Therefore, this work aims to present a review on GI publications in Brazil, focusing on identifying the different research fields, their concepts, typologies, and terminology. The survey identified 1146 documents that were published in Portuguese (from 1999 to 2018), which contained the term GI, and 235 were national peer-reviewed papers. Within this material, 75 texts presented a definition of GI, which composed a dataset regarding GI in Brazil, available as supplementary material. Besides Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscaping, authors from other areas were identified: Geography, Law, Biological Sciences, Civil Engineering, Forest Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Management and Analysis, and Advertising and Marketing. Regarding the GI concept, 40 bibliographic references were used, and a current trend on studies focusing on urban stormwater management typologies was noticed. It is also noteworthy the divergence surrounding GI terminology: 125 terms were catalogued to designate GI typologies, but only 65 were mentioned by more than one author, corroborating the need and importance of cross-sectional studies on the topic.