Smart Environment and Nature-Based Solutions

In the last decades, different concepts emerged in the European scientific and research context about the theme of the urban sustainability, the environmental protection and the enhancement of its resources. First Smart City, in its Smart Environment component, finds the opportunity to achieve sustainability and energy efficiency goals using different infrastructures and tools for managing and sharing information about the environment and its criticality. In recent times the concept of Nature-Based Solutions is underlined as a system of urban actions aimed to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural (or modified) ecosystems; moreover NBS address societal challenges in an effective and adaptive way, providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. Starting from the analysis of these two concepts (definitions, evolution, features, etc.), the aim of the author is to define possible relationships, coherences and conflicts between Smart Environment and NBS.