CLEARING HOUSE addresses four global mega-challenges that are closely interconnected:
Rapid urban growth combined with economic and industrial development may lead to unfavourable conditions that negatively affect human wellbeing. These impacts are amplified in cities that are affected by specific socio-economic and demographic challenges, for instance ageing populations, immigration, and social and economic segregation.
A global challenge
Our project unites European and Chinese cities in their quest to develop more resilient cities and liveable societies: finding pathways for the effective restoration of degraded urban environments in order to improve human wellbeing.
Our focus is on tree-based green infrastructure, including peri-urban forests and forested parks, and trees in public and private spaces. Tree-based green infrastructure is the basis for “urban forests as nature-based solutions” (similar Davies et al. 2017), henceforth referred to as UF-NBS.
Although trees are an answer to diverging urban challenges, there are also challenges related to the use of trees, woodlands and forest in urban environments. CLEARING HOUSE will look into challenges relating to:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement 821242.
