Urban Green Infrastructures and Social Shared Choices: A Deliberative Valuation Method

Green Infrastructure is a network of natural and semi-natural areas, strategically planned with other environmental features, designed and managed so as to provide a wide array of eco-systemic services and benefits. Because of its different multifunctional and potentially conflicting features, designing a Green Infrastructure is a complex operation which requires an integrated approach involving the local community, so as to locate the priority uses of the local area in a transparent, integral and cooperative way.In order to provide a valuation model being consistent with the design of a Green Infrastructure, the paper proposesa deliberative multi-dimensional valuation method supporting shared public choices and open to the proactive participation of the community.