Are nature-based solutions more than just the new hero in town?

Geography student Navya Lobo describes how the story she wanted to tell about community gardens had to be a visual one and needed to be told through multiple lenses.

Check out a blogpost on a bike tour of Poblenou that reveals the urban justice issues around municipal vs. community-led greening projects in the rapidly urbanizing Barcelona.

Nature-based solutions hold the potential to drive the urban sustainability agenda and meet societal challenges but how are the benefits of new urban nature to be distributed and through what means? 

The Roerplein Pocket Park is one of Utrecht’s prime examples of a successful citizen-led nature-based solution.

Work underway to review the Urban Nature Atlas containing 1,000 examples of nature-based solutions from 100 European cities.

Urban planning and climate change are closely interlinked. The way we build our cities affects both the local and the global climate.

Utrecht's new green roof policy: A step-by-step approach

With key conferences for climate and biodiversity on the horizon, a workshop in Brussels this month shone a spotlight on how nature-based solutions are rising up the policy agenda

As the Resilient City Congress celebrated its 10th anniversary during the last week in June in Bonn, the development of resilient cities seems to enter a new phase.

In the face of climate change and increasing environmental, economic and social pressures, building resilience and sustainable development has become a strategic issue for cities.

How Sweden is tackling the challenge of addressing carbon targets as well as urban greening. 

Bridging the knowledge between research, policy and practice

New research suggests that it’s time to pay attention to the nature in our backyard

Naturvation researcher Helen Toxopeus joined the Climate Finance Conference in Paris to gain insight into the most innovative initiatives aimed to accelerate the financing of the UN SDGs & Paris Climate Agenda.

Reflections on the growing interest in the urban challenge for nature and biodiversity within the international policy arena and its implications for sustainable urban futures.

The United Nations General Assembly has designated the 31 October 2018 as World Cities Day! Check out the emerging findings, lessons and tools from the NATRÙRVATION project.

How knowledge brokers support Naturvation's transdisciplinary approach

New thinking on the relation between nature and urban infrastructures at the 4S conference in Sydney, Australia.

The Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub at Melbourne University organized a free interactive seminar on nature-based solutions (NBS) with RMIT University and an international collaborator Lund University.

With Brazil aiming for a more holistic approach to the environment a dialogue with different sectors has been initiated  to improve the current management of natural resources and strengthen the uptake of nature-based solutions.

Naturvation researchers Sander van der Jagt and Hade Dorst's paper nominated for best conference paper award at International Sustainability Transitions Conference

A bottom-up initiative in Edinburgh is successfully campaigning to improve the quality of green rooftops within the city centre to benefit local wildlife

Restoring indigenous shrubland in Cape Town can increase water supply and provide climate change adaptation benefits

How nature-based solutions can be part of social empowerment

Nature is all around us. And it can help us deal with some urban challenges. So, nature, welcome back to cities! But what is it worth?

The increasing urban population worldwide is experiencing challenges imposed by climate change, decreasing environmental quality and threats to health and wellbeing.

Attending the inaugural IPCC Cities and Climate Change meeting Harriet Bulkeley finds plenty of interest in nature-based solutions and a commitment to strengthening collaboration between researchers, policy-makers and practitioners

How nature-based solutions can help the city to tackle past and future challenges.

Reflections from the European conference on nature-based solutions in Tallinn, Estonia.

Trees as a common responsibility: How Malmö is trying to protect their tree stock

Mobile Lab is a new methodology to explore a phenomenon by directly engaging with the city, its infrastructure, people and nature.

How a network of sensors can help to increase the resilience of cities and the well-being of its citizens.

Presenting at the 11th bi-annual EcoCities Conference, Harriet Bulkeley finds ecocities to be an idea that has run its time and one we need more than ever

Three of our researchers attended an international workshop on green infrastructure for sustainable urban planning in Bucharest.

Greening cities, such as through green roofs, is an attractive investment to limit heat impacts from climate change.

Can the transfer of responsibility save the future of Newcastle's parks?

Yes they can, but ... they can also produce inequality. Our recent article explores how to ensure fair nature-based solutions.

Getting inside the nature in nature-based solutions with Maria Kaika's book called City of Flows.

Urban sustainability challenges are driving cities to look for solutions inspired and supported by the services that nature can provide.