Reflections on Barcelona’s Green Infrastructure The European Commission defined green infrastructure as a strategically planned network of natural and semi-natural areas, designed and managed to provide a wide range of ecosystem services. It can substantially improve the environmental conditions of cities and, consequently, life quality of citizens. Although the backbone of European green infrastructure is …
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Urban Forestry InsightsEducating the future urban foresters
City of Trees – An inspirational package for pre-teens on the benefits of Urban Forests and urban trees Cities worldwide are facing environmental problems and commit towards a more sustainable development. To achieve this, we have to change the way we organise our societies. Education is a prerequisite for this change. Today, helping students to …
Worldwide eventsUforest at The Nature of Cities Festival 2022
From the 29th to the 31st of March, join The Nature of Cities Festival! The Nature of Cities (TNOC) is an international platform for transdisciplinary dialogue and urban solutions. The platform facilitates the sharing of diverse, transformative ideas about cities as ecosystems of people, nature, and infrastructure. TNOC produces publicly available programs, events, knowledge, and …
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Worldwide eventsNew opportunity: the Green4C Business Innovation Challenge
Are you interested in the ways nature can promote health, wellbeing, and social inclusion? Would you like to start something of your own? Green4C is a three-years Knowledge Alliance project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, which aims at promoting nature-based solutions for health, wellbeing, and social inclusion. The Alliance brings together …
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Urban Forestry InsightsUrban forestry interventions in Italy: between technical administrative procedures and implementation
What are the administrative procedures involving an urban forestry project? How is the administrative work – indispensable from seed to tree – organised? While the technical aspects of urban and periurban forestry are commonly known by technicians, the administrative work behind it is often less familiar. With no claim of being exhaustive, in this article …
Urban Forestry InsightsInnovative buildings for more sustainable cities
Architects and urban planners around the world are trying to find innovative solutions to bring nature back to cities. With more and more people becoming aware of the benefits of nature in everyday’s life, the need for vegetation and green spaces in urban areas is increasing. Creating parks and greenways might seem like the most …
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Worldwide eventsWorld Cities Day: adapting cities to climate resilience
Not only Halloween, on the 31st of October we celebrate the World Cities Day too! The past 50 years have seen a particularly rapid increase in urbanization trends across the globe. According to the UN Urbanization Prospects, by 2050 more than two-thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. Established in 2013 by …
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Urban Forestry InsightsA new rule for greener cities
Photo: Charles Parker (Pexels) The 3-30-300 rule is an easy yet promising tool to guide urban forestry programmes, and design greener and more inclusive cities. Urbanization and environmental degradation trends have been increasing exponentially in the last few decades, forcing us to rethink the way we plan and interact with urban environments. Within this framework, …
Urban Forestry InsightsBenefits and challenges of urban forests
Urban forests promote greener and healthier cities, but their implementation still face many challenges. The term urban forest refers to all the tree and shrubs present in urban areas, including trees in yards and in the streets, protected green areas, and urban or linear parks. Urban forests are the most evident form of green infrastructure …
Project UpdatesAn overview of training needs’ assessment and stakeholder analysis
Urban forests represent an innovative solution, but there are still few specific training opportunity on this subject. Uforest, the project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, was created to promote the development of new multidisciplinary training opportunities in urban forestry. Against this background, understanding the training needs of different stakeholders and the …
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