Green spaces – Clearing House H2020

Reimagining Future Cities – The Green Way

31 March 20210

The full recording of the ‘Reimagining Future Cities: The Green Way‘ is now available. This international conference on greening our cities, and the role of urban forestry and other approaches, was held on March 21st/22nd, 2021.

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Urban Forests: a valuable tool for building metropolitan green areas

29 March 20210

Recent trends show that more and more cities and metropolitan territories are turning to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to help develop more sustainable, resilient and healthy urban spaces. Urban Forests (UF) are a subset of Nature-Based Solutions that build on tree-based urban ecosystems to address societal challenges, simultaneously providing ecosystem services for human well-being and biodiversity benefits.

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CLEARING HOUSE City representatives discuss conflicts of interest in urban forestry settings

15 March 20210

To share experiences and challenges faced when working with different stakeholders on the topic of urban forestry as nature-based solutions (NBS), city representatives from the CLEARING HOUSE project met online, focussing on the broad topic of conflict of interest. To kick-start the discussions, each city representative shortly presented the most prominent dissidence they experience in their city.

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Green spaces & urban forests during the COVID-19 pandemic

23 July 20200

In the last few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread all across the world and is still dominating the headlines at this time. Notwithstanding global and regional differences, the basic elements of how we live have radically changed due to government prevention policies, the fear of contracting the virus and the actual spread of the disease. In this context, at CLEARING HOUSE, we realised that it was not possible to carry on our work and research as if nothing was happening.

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Classes and parks during COVID-19

2 July 20200

April 15 in Brussels, I leave my confinement to record a radio report.

My guest for today is a teacher who describes how he helps his 10-year-old pupils deal with the confinement imposed upon them. He maintains an almost daily link with his pupils from underprivileged backgrounds. Mental health, learning, family disharmony and the need for social contact are all destabilizing factors for these children.

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Parks for kings, parks for cars, parks for people

24 June 20200

In aerial pictures of the Brussels region, Belgium, two large green areas stand out: the Royal Domain of Laeken, situated in northern industrial suburbs of Brussels, and the Bois de la Cambre, in the south, connecting the Sonian Forest to the city.

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Ode to my park in Corona-times

10 June 20200

Your aloft trees, my walls

Their shiny leaves, my roof

The birds sing and the squirrel calls

“Here it is, corona-proof”

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COVID-19 vs. access to urban green space

20 May 20200

Image Source: Julo

In the previous post on “Urban forests & green space during Covid-19 pandemic”, the authors presented selected measures enforcing social distancing in urban green spaces or on the way to such spaces.

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Stories on trees: Urban forests & Green space during Covid-19 pandemic

30 April 20200

The COVID 19 pandemic is transforming our society. All the basic elements of living together have radically changed in the past weeks: Where and how we work, whom we spend time with, whom we care about, what tasks and activities keep us busy.