22 case studies illustrating the importance of UF-NBS in Europe and China!

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22 case studies illustrating the importance of UF-NBS in Europe and China!

14 February 20220

CLEARING HOUSE partners have collected data from 22 selected UF-NBS case studies in Europe and China. The analysis of these cases illustrated the high importance of UF-NBS as contributing to health, well-being and quality of life.
All case studies are available here below.

The analysis looks into the entire development cycle of UFBS, ranging from design and planning up to implementation (governance and management), monitoring and ecosystem service delivery (taking into account biodiversity aspects), including the analysis of their effects on urban societies’ wellbeing (e.g. public health as well as socio-environmental justice and gender issues).

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Co-Design Workshop in Kraków: Drwinka River Park

28 January 20220

On October 13-14, 2021, the workshop on the protection of River Parks took place in Krakow. It was a second co-design workshop (you may read also about the first one) organised by The Sendzimir Foundation in cooperation with the project partner, the Kraków Municipal Greenspace Authority.

The meeting focused on the Drwinka River Park, as an example of an area of special environmental and social value for Krakow. This area provides important ecosystem services to the city, but it is under threat from potential investment and requires active protection.

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CLEARING HOUSE in 2021 – Project overview

27 January 20220

During 2021, CLEARING HOUSE has seen its first mid-term project review in June 2021. This milestone was planned to mark the end of the first phase of the project. Unfortunately some outcomes were delayed due to the COVID-crisis, but other outcomes were on time and exiting. Highlights of the year where the Urban Forestry Days, the Inspirational Package for teenagers and the first full CLEARING HOUSE webinar.Read more

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Using, protecting, shaping urban forests – and researching about them

27 January 20220

Co-Design Workshop II, as part of the CLEARING HOUSE project at the Green Lab in Gelsenkirchen.

What is the importance of urban forests for our health, for the biodiversity in our cities and for the future of our densely populated region? What does the term participatory mapping mean? And what can we use the i-Tree software for?

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120 Minutes, 1200 Trees

19 January 20220

Climate neighbourhoods as laboratories and examples for sustainable neighbourhoods

Within the Strategic Project Horizon+ in which the Province of Flemish Brabant plays a coordinating role, four so-called klimaatwijken or ‘climate neighbourhoods’ were selected in which a participation process will be launched in the coming years in order to create sustainable, biodiverse and green neighbourhoods in collaboration with residents and garden owners.Read more

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Green 4 Children – The future is nature

3 December 20210

Do you want to teach children and young people to become little nature conservationists?

During this webinars, three leading environmental institutions talked about how to reconnect boys and girls with nature from school… and without leaving the city! The Barcelona City Council also presented the initiative to green their school playgrounds.

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First Webinar wrap up – Urban Forests as Nature-Based Solutions, State of the art

26 November 20210

“One of the objective of the EU Green Deal is to have 3 billions more trees in Europe by 2030, and this will partly be accomplished by implementing sustainable Urban Forests Nature-Based Solutions strategies” shared Sofie Vandewoestijne, project advisor at the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency, recalling the European Commission supports projects such as CLEARING HOUSE.Read more

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URBAN FOREST CO-CREATORS UNITED BY THE RIVER LLOBREGAT IN BARCELONA

25 October 20210

South of Barcelona, the Llobregat is a historic river that has played a major role in propelling Catalonia to grow and prosper. Its lowermost territories are a biodiversity hotspot and offer a wide variety of ecosystem services to the nearby metropolitan areas, such as food and fresh water. However, over-exploited to power industries, irrigate crops and provide drinking water, living space and a transport network to millions of people, the lowest portion of the river is heavily populated and under a high level of pressure.Read more

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Join the webinar: Urban forests as Nature-based solutions, state of the art

15 October 20210

CLEARING HOUSE project partners are proud to announce their first webinar “Urban forests as Nature-based solutions, state of the art”. It will be organised in collaboration with Metropolis, open to NBS professionals and practitioners.

Interpretation will be available in English and Mandarin. Find the full programme below!

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When researchers become citizens: community gardening at the Parc Raspail, Brussels.

19 July 20210

On July fourth I participated on a day of community gardening at the Parc Raspail: together with some 15 neighbours and friends we spent the day inside of this green spot in the south of the region, collecting garbage, clearing the paths from nettles and wild branches, opening some spaces for picnics and games, and letting some other wild to allow nature to remain undisturbed. That day is the last step of a journey of almost two years where neighbourhood residents joined hand to make their parc again available to everyone.