ERF develops and designs plans and projects on territorial and urban spaces. It proposes viable solutions that integrate the constraints of biophysical matrix and environmental flows to get most liveable cities, efficient territories and infrastructure projects well embedded in the environmental matrix.

The main products offered in this area are:

Territorial and urban planning

• Strategies for urban sustainable development
• Sustainability criteria for land and urban planning
• Socio-environmental indicator systems
• Environmental assessment of plans and programmes
• Communication of strategic urban processes

Socio-environmental projects

• Design and planning of urban and suburban spaces
• Proposals for planning and adaptation of socio-environmental projects
• Analysis, evaluation and monetarisation of environmental externalities and services
• Reports and opinions on territorial and environmental impacts of economic activities

Sustainable infrastructure

• Socio-environmental analysis of mobility and transport infrastructure
• Environmental analysis of energy infrastructure