Preserving, valorising and promoting Green Infrastructures (GIs) and related Ecosystem Services (ESS) as a way to ensure a durable ecological, economic and cultural connectivity between rural and urban territories of the Alpine Space. The objective is achieved by: developing & testing transferable business models and policies in support to short value-chains; activating financial instruments, payments for ecosystem services (PES), developing management techniques, empowering policy makers & institutions, easing finance mobilisation to support the conservation & enhancement of regional GIs and ecological connectivity.
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