GREEN AREAS AS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS- SP.
The design of green infrastructure emerges as a valuable opportunity for the integration of grey-green in the urban network, as well as an alternative to adaptation and mitigation to climate change. However, the scarcity of studies on green areas, as well as on the relationship between green areas and green infrastructure in São José dos Campos highlighted the need to deepen research aimed at understanding the relationship between planning, implementation of urban green areas and the constitution of a green infrastructure in the municipality in the last decade. In this way, the present work conducted a literary review on green areas and green infrastructure aiming to develop a green infrastructure planning matrix, in order to evaluate green area plans/programs/projects. It also morphologically analyzed the green areas in the municipality, raising in some case studies the existence of a relationship between green infrastructure and ecosystem services. It was found that the municipality does not seem to idealize the conception of a green infrastructure from its plans, programs and projects of green areas, as well as the need for a proper definition of the term 'green infrastructure' to be contemplated. There is still a lack of investment in the design of new green areas, especially with regard to the connection between those that already exist, an essential factor for a green infrastructure. Finally, the research made it possible to confirm the hypothesis that the planning of the implementation of green areas through plans, programs and projects does not consider the establishment of a green infrastructure. And this can be observed by the little presence of the concept in these instruments as well as by the morphological analysis of the green areas in the municipality, which shows an unequal and disconnected distribution.