ELECTRICAL CITIES – AGROECOLOGICAL PARKS

Energy efficiency and biodiversity to fight Climate Change

ELECTRICAL CITIES – AGROECOLOGICAL PARKS

ECAP – PROJECT ©

ELECTRICAL CITIES AND AGROECOLOGICAL PARKS (ECAP) ©

The “Electrical Cities and Agroecological Parks (ECAP) ©” project is a bio-economic, sustainable development and technical assistance project for the reduction of vulnerability to energy, poverty, sanitation, natural disasters, while combating climate change.

The “Agroecological Parks (AP) ©” project is a sustainable production proposal for the processing of basic commodities into foodstuff, curative and energy products. The aforementioned project is to be performed having in mind the problems of urban poverty and efficiency as a priority.

Since more than 70% of the world population will be living in cities by the year 2025, the phenomenon of urbanization poses a major problem.

Cities are places where a multitude of exchanges take place and whose overall increase in entropy must be offset by the release of resources.

For these reasons appropriate and efficient urban solutions will play a key role in the coming years.

It is necessary to design human settlements that mimic natural ecosystems, with the use of high efficiency electricity, interventions on energy, water and sanitation, the use of a bio-circular economy and the creation of agro-ecological and eco-productive parks.

This is a strategy to restore the balance of critical urban systems and to achieve both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Climate Change Targets (CCTs) over the next years.

The project concept: “Electrical Cities and Agro-ecological Parks (ECAP) ©” will focus on how to design natural cities for the future and how to recover and adapt existing cities and will discuss policy recommendations and implementation strategies for effective urban solutions and issues related to environment, energy, agro-ecology, mobility, infrastructure and other matters.

The project will provide solutions to technical, environmental, financial and social feasibility for the future development and well-being of urban settlements. The project, with the supplying of indicators, principles, guidelines and a program of actions and activities, will also provide inputs that could be interesting for multiple stakeholders, including mayors, policymakers, experts, artists, academics, students and representatives from the private sector and civil society.

Goals

  • To make a contribution to the implementation of international programs like the UN FCCC;

  • To define a strategy to restore the balance of critical urban systems and to achieve both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Climate Change Targets (CCTs) over the next years;

  • To provide solutions to technical, environmental, financial and social feasibility for the future development and well-being of urban settlements and for issues related to environment, energy, agroecology, mobility and infrastructure.

Principles

  • Designing human settlements mimicking natural ecosystems.

  • Designing the city as a whole, as a complex system.

  • Progressive elimination of combustion in the city.

  • Interdependence between economy and ecology.

  • Increasing biological and cultural diversity.

  • Reducing city-system entropy.

  • Achieving social and environmental equity.

Guidelines

  • Providing technical, environmental, financial and social feasibility.

  • Designing cities using Bio-mimetics.

  • Designing and using high efficiency electricity production and distribution.

  • Permanence and wastes treatment should not take place inside the city.

  • Designing asymmetric, bioclimatic and adaptive structure of cities and buildings.

  • Creating agroecological and ecoproductive parks;

  • Designing accessible city.

  • Using circular bioeconomy.

Actions

  • All transportation of goods and persons should be slow and electric.

  • The heating, cooling and cooking must be electric or from cogeneration.

  • Defining plans of interventions on energy, water and sanitation for urban poor.

  • Biodiversity and agriculture should be increasing inside the city.

  • Producing nutritious and medicinal food.

  • Accessibility should be improved in the city.

The methodological approach to design is developed in accordance with local environmental and social characteristics.

The design choices are the result of interdisciplinary studies, analysis and specialized designs that, starting from the initial stage, coordinate to the construction of an integrated plant and to meet the requirements that ensure a triple advantage, economic, environmental and social, in the medium term.

The ECAP  ©project is proposed by COBASE Basic Technical Scientific Association, an international organization, which was constituted by a team of specialized researchers and professionals. COBASE has been granted the status of special consultant with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and is one of the major groups with the UN Sustainable Development Program, in the sector of “Scientific and technological communities. The project is within the framework of the “Future Cities Network” program.