eLearnAfrica
Smart Urban Green Infrastructure
EIT Urban Mobility
  • Start Date: 26 Dec, 2022
  • 5 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Understand how carbon-smart green infrastructure can mitigate climate change impacts in urban areas.

Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
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Course Description

This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.

Explore the potential of carbon-smart green infrastructure


Green infrastructure aims to reduce the impacts of climate change with a network of green areas. Building with nature rather than against it, green infrastructure can increase biodiversity in densely populated regions and help solve climate challenges.


On this five-week course, you’ll learn the different approaches to carbon-smart urban green infrastructure and how it can be considered a solution to simultaneously deal with climate and social pressures.


You’ll investigate the advantages of carbon-smart urban green infrastructure and their applications to urban contexts. With this knowledge, you’ll have the tools and methodologies you can use immediately in your work.


Understand current urban mobility challenges


You’ll delve into how urban mobility impacts human life and society before exploring some of the current mobility challenges.


Once you have identified these challenges, you’ll explore emerging mobility technologies to understand how you can overcome them.


Delve into the concept of urban nature


To understand the environmental impacts of the built environment and urban mobility, you’ll gain an understanding of urban nature and ecosystems.


You’ll learn how carbon cycling works in urban habitats, how to integrate existing vegetation into urban areas, and biodiversity threats. Next, you’ll discover how to navigate these challenges, such as through nature-based solutions.


Learn how to design a green city


Finally, you’ll explore the practices of designing a green city. You’ll look at the possibilities of integrating nature as well as the strategic planning, construction, and management of a green city.


Guided by the experts at EIT Urban Mobility, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge and confidence to implement carbon-smart green infrastructure.


This course is designed for urban mobility and transportation professionals, urban planners, and other professionals working in this field at any stage of their career.


Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.

EIT Urban Mobility

This university is part of the partnership between eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn.

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