Course: Bringing Urban Nature Into the Cities of Tomorrow

There is a growing demand for ‘everyday nature’ as part of the solution to the liveability of cities, but it’s more than just urban greening; it’s generating daily doses of …

This week we’ll explore approaches for choosing nature based solutions to address diverse challenges and how to deliver nature based solutions for cities, overcoming key barriers and engaging stakeholders. Watch …

Next week, we’ll dive deeper into the key elements of design to help us answer the big question: ‘‘How can nature help us overcome the challenges facing cities?’ This week …

Making cities more sustainable and less harmful for the environment is one of humanity’s top priorities. Different approaches in this direction can be adopted. So far, renaturing urban plans by …

Nature-based solutions have been proposed as a family of approaches that can help society adapt to climate change and mitigate its impacts, enhance ecosystem services, and produce societal co-benefits. Across …

The dominant approach to measuring the relationship between green space and health and well-being is to treat all vegetation cover as equal. However, there is evidence to assume that variations …

A growing body of research suggests contact with nature provides a multitude of long term health benefits and can be an important factor in disease prevention and health promotion for …

We hope that you’ve enjoyed learning about approaches to bringing nature into urban centres. We also hope you found the learning materials – and the opportunity to be part of …

What collaborations are needed to make NbS a success? NbS have multiple benefits for multiple stakeholders. In this video, stakeholders were interviewed about who can or should come together to …

Despite the mounting evidence of the benefits of nature based solutions, strategies built around NbS are seldom practically realised. Cities are not set up to deliver their plans for greening, …