CLEARING HOUSE joins the #EdibleCitySolutions campaign to raise awareness about green urban food innovation

Blog, Collaborative Learning, Nature-based solutions, NBS events

CLEARING HOUSE joins the #EdibleCitySolutions campaign to raise awareness about green urban food innovation

15 October 20210

Food isn’t just fuel – it connects us all.

Whether it’s in the form of urban agriculture initiatives, underground or rooftop farms, community gardens or healthy cooking workshops, millions of city dwellers around the world are already bringing the food they eat closer to the cities they live in, and bringing people together at the same time.

Nature-based solutions, NBS events, Urban forests

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!

Collaborative Learning, Nature-based solutions, NBS events

A novel typology for urban forests as nature-based solutions – Workshop

15 September 20210

Join the workshop organised by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and European Forest Institute to discuss the novel typology for Urban forests, urban green and urban trees

About this event

The typology on urban forests as nature-based solutions (UF-NBS) is intended to provide grounding knowledge on UF-NBS for within the CLEARING HOUSE project, and beyond the project’s scope. This knowledge—i.e., the elements to be described in the project’s typology—is diverse, as CLEARING HOUSE focuses on Europe as well as China, and thus wants to assume a broad perspective on UF-NBS.

Blog, Urban forests, Urban trees

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.

Blog, Nature-based solutions, Urban forests

Spatial accessibility to urban green spaces in Brussels Capital Region and its surroundings

29 June 20210

The benefits of urban green spaces (UGS) are significant for increasing the rate of physical activities, general improvement of health and ensuring an improved socialization culture in a society. The associated benefits are also essential for quality of life and wellbeing improvement. However, in many cases, UGS and therefore the benefits they provide are unevenly distributed in cities, which raises issues of environmental justice.

Blog, Nature-based solutions, Urban forests

Leisure or motorised traffic in Brussels Central Park? Who wants what

15 June 20210

About a year ago, I introduced in this blog Brussels’s Bois de la Cambre and the contention that was taking place to maintain or not motorised traffic through the park. In the post’s conclusion I was reflecting on the fact that, despite an apparent consensus on the importance of urban forests, in scarce urban land choices need to be made to arbitrate between mismatching priorities, ranging from providing space for leisure and the possibility to enjoy nature, to granting privileges to a country’s elites, or develop motorized mobility infrastructure.

Blog, Nature-based solutions

The meaning of CLEARING HOUSE

24 May 20210

In a world with an increasing population and urbanisation, forests and urban green spaces are critical elements for making cities more sustainable, greener and healthier places to live. During this interview you will learn about citizens perceptions and usage patterns of forests and urban green spaces through different geographical contexts.

Blog, Media, Nature-based solutions

Championing urban forests for human well-being

18 May 20210

CLEARING HOUSE Project arouse the curiosity of the public, as the Nature-Based Solutions are more and more popular today. And the need for green spaces and urban forests in our cities is growing.

Blog, Media, Nature-based solutions

Evaluating the impact of Nature-based Solutions: a handbook for practitioners

7 May 20210

A new handbook that aims to provide practitioners with a comprehensive Nature-based Solutions (NBS) impact assessment framework, and a robust set of indicators and methodologies to assess impacts of NBS across 12 societal challenges.Read more

Blog, Nature-based solutions

240 yews make giant hearts for heroes in corona battle

26 April 20210

240 yews have been planted in the shape of a large heart in the Heldenbos in Moerbeke, East Flanders. It is the conclusion of a campaign that planted a total of 18,000 trees in 6 new “Heroes Forests” across all provinces.