Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, including green and blue spaces and other ecosystems, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services at various scales. Apart from the ecological functions, green infrastructure, as a planning tool, contributes to social and economic benefits, leading to the achievement of sustainable, resilient, inclusive and competitive urban areas. Despite recent developments, there is still no consensus among researchers and practitioners regarding the concept of green infrastructure as well as its implementation approaches, which makes it often difficult for urban planners and other professionals in the field to develop a robust green infrastructure in some parts of the world. To address this issue, an integrative literature review was conducted to identify which green infrastructure planning principles should be acknowledged in spatial planning practices to promote sustainability and resilience. As a result of this literature review, the most common eight green infrastructure planning principles were selected—connectivity, multifunctionality, applicability, integration, diversity, multiscale, governance, and continuity. These principles intend to promote and simplify the development and use of green infrastructure by different academic and implementation organizations and provide a more defined model for sustainable landscape management in order to help practitioners and decision makers during the conceptualization and planning of green infrastructure.

Análise do sistema de controle interno no Brasil: objetivos, importância e barreiras para sua implantaçãoInternal control system analysis in Brasil: objetives, importance and hinders to its implementation Análisis del sistema de control interno em Brasil: objetivos, importanica y barreras para su aplicación. Renato Pereira Monteiro ISSN 2175-8069, UFSC, Florianópolis, v. 12, n. 25, p. 159-188, jan./abr. 2015 160 Renato Pereira Monteiro ResumoParte-se da premissa de que o controle interno é importante no contexto das organizações públicas e tem-se por objetivo realizar uma análise das suas finalidades e importância na administração pública do Brasil e das barreiras para sua implantação. A estratégia de pesquisa desenvolvida é uma revisão sistemática da literatura e a realização de pesquisa documental em relatórios do TCU e da CGU. Identificou-se um conjunto de onze objetivos para atuação do SCI. Os resultados apontam também para uma categorização da importância do SCI no contexto do setor e as principais barreiras para sua implantação. Um quadro teórico de cinco categorias de importância do SCI foi constituído gestão do risco, informação, comportamento ético, imagem da entidade e proteção dos recursos públicos. As principais barreiras detectadas foram a falta de uma cultura de gestão ao risco, a carência de pessoal em número adequado e a qualidade técnica exigida.Palavras-chave: Sistema de controle interno. Importância. Objetivos. Barreiras. AbstractPart on the assumption that the internal control is important in the context of public organizations and has aimed to carry out a review of its purposes and importance in public administration in Brazil and the barriers to its implementation. The search strategy developed is a systematic literature review and conducting documentary research reports on TCU and CGU. Identified a set of eleven goals for performance of SCI. The results also point to a categorization of the importance of SCI in the context of the sector and the main barriers to its implementation. A theoretical framework of five categories of importance of SCI was established risk management, information, ethical behavior, body image and protect public resources. The main barriers identified were the lack of a culture of risk management, the shortage of personnel in adequate numbers and with the required technical quality. Keywords:Internal control system. Importance. Goals. Barriers. ResumemParte del supuesto de que el control interno es importante en el contexto de las organizaciones públicas y ha tratado de llevar a cabo una revisión de sus objetivos y la importancia en la administración pública en Brasil y las barreras a su implementación. La estrategia de búsqueda desarrollada es una revisión sistemática de la literatura y la realización de informes de investigación documental sobre TCU y CGU. Identificado un conjunto de once metas para el desempeño de la lesión medular. Los resultados también apuntan a una categorización de la importancia de la lesión medular en el contexto del sector y las principal...

Green infrastructure is a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas that are designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. It incorporates green and blue spaces and other physical features in terrestrial and marine areas. Despite the increase of green infrastructure planning in several regions of the world, such as Europe and North America, there is still a complexity and diversity associated with the concept of green infrastructure that influences the variance in approaches of green infrastructure planning. This research proposed a multi-criteria method that was organized in four steps for designing a green infrastructure for the municipality of Setúbal (Portugal) that efficiently integrated the ecological and social components in the planning and policymaking processes, as well as green infrastructure planning principles. The results show a green infrastructure that comprised around 91% of the territory of the case study, organized into two systems: the fundamental green infrastructure, which was related to the areas whose ecological interests were more favorable, and the urban green infrastructure, which aimed to enhance and intensify ecological processes in built-up areas. This approach focused on the protection of ecological functions, the preservation of the cultural and natural heritage, and the prevention of risks at a local level; it also followed several green infrastructure planning principles, namely, connectivity, multifunctionality, diversity, integration, and applicability.

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Ambassadors for Biodiversity (EmBio) is an ocean literacy research project that contributes to the improvement of literacy on marine and coastal biodiversity, namely encompassing the areas covered by the Natura 2000 Network, by promoting coastal and oceanic resources conservation and natural and cultural values preservation of the Portuguese western Atlantic coast. This project directly promotes the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the implementation of 2030 Agenda developed by the United Nations and adopted by most countries in the world, which define the priorities and aspirations for global sustainable development until the year of 2030, mobilizing a world-wide effort to meet a common set of goals and objectives. This paper contributes to understanding how ocean literacy, and specifically the EmBio research project, fits into the international agenda for sustainable development and the SDGs and its targets. Through an analysis and a comparison between the project EmBio and the SDGs, it was possible to identify connections on 11 out of 17 goals and 31 out of 169 targets, with a special emphasis on the SDG 14—Life Below Water. The results highlight the relevance of this project and, especially, ocean literacy for the accomplishment of the SDGs.