Line of action:

Urban environments

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid, Community of Madrid)

Geographic scope:

España

Line of research:

Urban Environments

Execution date:

2023

Duration:

01/08/23-31/12/2025

Total budget:

3.869.209,88€

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

3.675.749,38€

Rivas-Vaciamadrid City Council

Barrio Oeste, one of the most densely populated areas of Rivas-Vaciamadrid, combines large housing developments, villas, avenues and streets with reduced sidewalks and trees, which do not facilitate walking. Includes settlements of the Cañada Real Galiana. Its accelerated urban growth has led to a shortage of public green spaces that do not reach the entire population, unused interstitial areas and the need for landscaped areas for new developments. Blue Infrastructure is very scarce and seasonal and El Olivar -with great potential for fauna- is fragmented and isolated from the natural environment. The project will occupy opportunity spaces for Green Infrastructure and increase the ecosystem services of the renaturalized spaces. It will also create new ecological niches in the urban fabric and increase animal biodiversity, favoring pollinators and biological pest control, diversify the urban flora with resilient species, and eliminate invasive exotic species. Increasing the shaded area will reduce the urban heat island.

• Elaboration of the Green Infrastructure Strategy of Rivas-Vaciamadrid.
• Renaturalization of El Olivar, promotion of Blue Infrastructure in the Western Quarter, creation of a sustainable urban drainage system and restoration of the pond.
• Pedestrianization and renaturation of low-emission zones at school entrances
• Renaturalization of vacant spaces in the urban fabric of the western neighborhood of Barrio Oeste
• Creation of ecological corridors between renaturalized areas
• Communication and awareness plan
• Governance and participation plan
• Indicator monitoring plan