ISLANDS moves its steps considering our society's done of consumers who encourage a consumerism lifestyle. Within consumerism, tourism represents a growing sector nevertheless the economic crisis. It is the third expenditure item of household incomes, impacting more than 10% of the Global GDP. Given this scenario, natural resources, particularly the seaside, are assaulted by tourism and recreational use, creating several impacts on biodiversity and landscape. The phenomenon does not consider the specificity of our places because it looks exclusively at economic conditions without considering the Environment. Several NGOs sound the alarm about this problem, and they recall all countries to protect the seaside against pollution, construction industries and residential tourism. ISLANDS is an educational laboratory where students, teachers and stakeholders may design new approach models to the seaside planning to create transnational models for territorial governance. The current world status situation on residential tourism as a pollution factor of our seaside needs revisiting the policies on urban planning. We need to look at systemic and educative approaches to the matter. The systemic approach regards the governance of our territories when the educative process feels the future generations. 

WPT1) Identification and analysis of Green Infrastructure (GIs) and Ecosystem Services (ESs) focusing on the seaside area and evaluation of their ecological benefits. R1) Layouts and analysis report of existing GIs and ESs at the local level. R2) Inventory of the seaside Flora and Fauna listing their ecological benefits. R3) Impact report looking at the local urban sprawl on GIs and ESs.

WPT2) Project Design, Guidelines to strengthen, implement, protect and preserve existing/new GIs to improve the local ESs; R4) Ecosystem seaside project plan. R5) Design of a "Seaside Planning Handbook" as a tool for urban planners and municipalities to consider the best way to use the seaside for biodiversity and GIs.

WPT3) Dissemination of Green Lifestyle models and sustainable uses of GIs. Dynamics and opportunities for sustainable change. R6) Design of two learning modules on sustainable green lifestyles, promotional activities, and entrepreneurial models on GIs.

WPT4) Capacity building looking at the environment, biodiversity values, and ESs. R7) Design meetings to strengthen the community's capacity building pro-environment improving ESs' quality for the citizens' well-being. 

General Evaluation of the project - Pools