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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-904-4-0106

IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPROVE RECREATION IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF DRIENOV, SLOVAKIA

Martina Zeleňáková, Natália Junáková

Green infrastructure, as an often-used term in several political documents and strategies of the European Commission dealing with the protection of biodiversity, adaptation to climate change, protection of water resources and flood prevention, serves as a tool to ensure ecological, environmental, economic, social and urbanistic benefits through natural solutions. From a sociological point of view, green areas represent a landscape element with recreational potential in a residential environment. The task of green infrastructure is to connect individual areas of greenery at the level of cities, municipalities and in the open country. Together with the blue infrastructure, it provides various forms of benefit for the population in urban settlements and improves the quality of life. Green and blue infrastructure solutions are particularly important in the urban environment, where more than 60% of the EU population (and approx. 53% of the Slovakia population) lives. The contribution is focused on the design and subsequent implementation of green infrastructure elements in the village of Drienov, situated in the east of Slovakia in the Kosice Basin (Košická kotlina). The goal is to create infrastructure elements and objects that together will create a functional unit and improve the quality of life of people in the village. The goal can be fulfilled by creating several separate objects whose technical and social functions are interconnected. The results of this study are proposed elements as green areas made of semi-vegetated blocks, an underground tank, a rain garden in the exterior premises of the Drienov municipal office and a semi-vegetated retaining wall, which in the future would form a pleasant relaxation zone supplemented by trees, bushes, flowers and benches.

Keywords: green areas, Kosice Basin, rain garden, retention tank, vegetation retaining wall

pages: 106-110, Published: 2023, online: 2023



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