Name: URBES FUTURES – Lessons learned for Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - 10 years after BiodivERsa’s URBES project (2011-2014)
Start: 2024-06-04T10:00:00-0400
End: 2024-06-04T11:30:00-0400

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URBES FUTURES – Lessons learned for Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - 10 years after BiodivERsa’s URBES project (2011-2014)

During the URBES Futures skills session for The Nature of Cities Festival in Berlin we aim at reflecting on the impact of the BiodivERsA URBES project (2011-2014) for planning for urban biodiversity and ecosystem services and what we have learned over the past 10 years.
We will invite stakeholders (urban planners, NGOs, etc.) from the cities (Barcelona, Berlin and Rotterdam) we made our URBES video’s of for their reflections on the developments over the past years and to look forward to what the future will hold for nature in our cities.
We would like to create a very interactive session that introduces briefly the URBES project as a scene-setting talk, show the videos and provides follow-up discussions as dialogues with the city stakeholders and the URBES researchers who led the stakeholder engagement processes in the cities (Berlin; Rotterdam; Barcelona). This will then lead into a joint panel discussion to exchange what we/the stakeholders have learned in the last 10 years in the cities, how progress was made and what the future of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services could be under global change. The session would be moderated by Chantal van Ham.

Berlin (in person) Speakers

Chantal van Ham

Francesc Baró

Asst. Prof. of Urban Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB)

I am an (urban) environmental scientist. My research is motivated by making cities inclusive, healthy, resilient and sustainable. In order to understand the complexity of urban social-ecological systems, I conduct applied research at the interface of urban ecology, urban geography... Read More →