Take a decisive step in your professional career by incorporating the planning and technical management of urban Natural Capital into your daily work" 

Goods and services such as water, food and climate regulation underpin all economic and social activity in a city. These so-called ecosystem services can have a negative impact on multiple areas of the city, from purely economic to health services. In recent years, green infrastructures and nature-based solutions have burst with enormous force due to their great potential to mitigate unforeseen changes in the urban Natural Capital.

That is why professionals and engineers in the area must specialize in this field, complementing it with the necessary tools for technical planning, measurement, valuation and monitoring of ecosystem services. This TECH postgraduate diploma offers a detailed overview of all of them, contextualized in real examples and specific cases by a teaching staff of leading experts in urban management and architecture.

The 100% online nature of the degree also allows it to be combined with any kind of activity or responsibility, whether personal or professional. There are no presential classes or fixed schedules, being the student the one who decides at all times how to assume the teaching load. All content is downloadable from the Virtual Campus, being accessible from any device with an Internet connection.

Position yourself prominently in your field thanks to an advanced and modern management of urban Natural Capital"

This postgraduate diploma in Natural Capital in Urban Infrastructures  contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in Design of Sustainable Green Infrastructures
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

You will find a wealth of multimedia material available on the Virtual Campus, giving you the necessary context to put into practice the work methodology that you will acquire throughout the program”

The program’s teaching staff includes professionals from the sector who contribute their work experience to this educational program, as well as renowned specialists from leading societies and prestigious universities.

Its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professionals with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive education programmed to learn in real situations.

The design of this program focuses on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the professionals must try to solve the different professional practice situations that are presented throughout the academic course. For this purpose, the students will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

You will be able to review and study all the contents from your own smartphone, being able to distribute the course load according to your interests"

You decide when, where and how to study the entire syllabus, supported by interactive summaries and detailed videos"

The main objective of this postgraduate diploma is to position the graduate as an important actor in any ambitious urban plan. This will be achieved through advanced skills in the planning and management of Natural Capital, taking into account not only the environmental aspects themselves but also the economic impact of green infrastructures and how these greatly reduce the expense and subsequent maintenance of their grey alternatives. 

Incorporate GIS software, topological models and the i-Tree collection of tools into your work methodology to stand out as an expert in Natural Capital in Urban Infrastructures "

General Objectives

• Provide a rationale for the current context of sustainable urban development
• Analyze the main global reference strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
• Protecting and promoting Urban Biodiversity
• Communicate through visualization of good environmental management
• Analyze different nature-based solutions as city transformers

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Technical planning of urban trees

• Train in the study of the diagnosis of a city's tree population
• Examine the services and disservices provided by ornamental public trees
• Acquiring skills for the management of public trees
• Learn how to assess using specific calculation tools
• Face the problems of creating new spaces where existing trees need to be introduced or modified in a sustainable manner
• Identify the main barriers to management based on ecosystem services for urban tree species
• Inventory and identify the most common tree management problems
• Apply valuation standards
• Elaborate tree master plans
• Manage trees in urban works and infrastructures
• Identify the danger parameters of a tree and the work to be carried out in each case to minimize risk
• Develop tools for the selection of species adapted to climate change
• Establish monitoring programs for tree management based on KPIs

Module 2. Natural capital in urban infrastructures

• Develop the concept of Nature, a new paradigm of economy
• Analyze the global framework for biodiversity and natural capital
• Identify the components of urban green infrastructure
• Learn to value the importance of nature
• Assessing the risks and opportunities associated with the new global framework
• Substantiate the new global legislative framework in relation to biodiversity and natural capital
• Determine the new European legislative framework and the implications for business.
• Identify the components of urban green infrastructure: assets and ecosystem services.
• Establish frameworks for measuring, valuing and accounting for nature's benefits to society and frameworks for measuring, valuing and accounting for impacts
• Examine the sustainability standards for urban infrastructure
• Categorize and understand the different risks to nature
• Evaluate the opportunities associated with the natural capital approach
• Compile natural capital and ecosystem services-based management and financing models
• Analyze in early projects where private investment in green infrastructure can play a role
• Realizing Nature-Based Solutions and natural capital
• Evaluate the economic and social impact of Nature-Based Solutions

Module 3. Measuring, quantifying, valuing and mapping ecosystem services

• Analyze the rationale for measuring Ecosystem Services
• Identify ecosystem services assessment tools
• Examine ecosystem services measurement and valuation models
• Establish the products and needs for each tool
• Determine the set of ecosystem services that can be assessed by each tool
• Carry out a comparison of ESS assessment tools with the standard criteria
• Delve into the management of i-Tree
• Size the projects according to the particularity of the ecosystem services and the type of infrastructure to be quantified
• Evaluate the gaps and opportunities for improving the quality of EESS based on the data obtained
• Propose governance for ecosystem-based adaptation

Get involved in the planning, creation of master plans and subsequent execution of the same thanks to a practical vision of the entire process of Urban Infrastructure management"