Urban Green Infrastructure as a Strategy to Address Urban Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. A Case Study of Milagrosa (Pamplona)

Green Infrastructure (GI) has gained importance in recent years as it been revealed an essential piece to face the environmental problem generated by incessant growth of urbanization, loss biodiversity, and climate change. In this vein, results a research aimed at investigating challenges posed implementation GI usual compact urban spaces cities Mediterranean area are presented, based on analysis indicators green Spanish city Pamplona. A comparative (green trees) city’s neighbourhoods using GIS tools reveals high intra-urban inequalities well existence of, particularly, underfunded areas. The morphological one (La Milagrosa neighbourhood) also shows that narrowness road shortage constitute obstacles must be addressed from planning GI. allow us reflect scale processes UGI (Urban Infrastructure) neighbourhood suitability Nature-based Solutions (NbS) alternative for design UGI.