Green Infrastructure and Landscape Planning in a Sustainable and Resilient Perspective

The topic of green infrastructure is becoming more and more popular within the academic world and public bodies. In the face of climate change, it represents an urgent dilemma to be developed in both urban and landscape planning practices. Green infrastructure is indeed a well-fitted stage where to combine not only environmental, ecological and landscape elements but also social and technological ones. Within the framework of sustainability and resilience, in this chapter, we attempt to outline all the relevant issues which need to be included and discussed when speaking of green infrastructure and landscape planning. In order to analyse the Italian situation, we refer to some international experiences which have developed specific national norms and policies on green infrastructure. We conclude proposing some open issues and perspectives that emerge from current international debates.