LAUNCH OF THE #NATURE4FUTURE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

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LAUNCH OF THE #NATURE4FUTURE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

26 April 20230

To raise awareness about the importance of UF-NBS and forest conservation, the #Nature4Future quiz campaign has been launched on the International Day of Forests

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Urban Forests in the Time of COVID-19: Visitor Frequencies and Attitudes in Bonn, Germany

18 April 20230

Discover this new publication by CLEARING HOUSE partners Jakob Derks, Georg Winkel, Johanna Strieck & Rik De Vreese. The publication focuses on visitors’ frequencies and attitudes towards urban forests and their management, before and during the COVID-19 lockdown. This publication showcases a mixed methods case study in Bonn, Germany.

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Pandemic urban development is leading us away from nature

18 April 20230

Discover this new publication on Nature-Based Approaches for Urban Recovery in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era by CLEARING HOUSE partner Clive Davies along with Raffaele Lafortezza!

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to construction-led development as part of recovery plans in Europe, overshadowing nature-based agendas in terms of scale, size, and policy.

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The unrelenting global expansion of the urban heat island over the last century

18 April 20230

Discover this new publication on the Growing Impact of Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect on Cities by CLEARING HOUSE partners!

The global rise in temperatures and urbanization has led to the increasing prominence of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in scientific research.

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Sparking wine for a greener city? The Urban Vineyard Paola is born!

18 April 20230

Discover new article by CLEARING HOUSE partner Nicola Da Schio.

The CLEARING HOUSE projet is not only there to trigger interesting research and compelling policy processes: to some extent it also inspires what the team members do as active citizens in their own neighbourhood.

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Towards an integrated garden. Gardeners of all types, unite!

3 April 20230

Discover this new publication by CLEARING HOUSE partners!

Urban gardens are focal in metropolitan social-ecological infrastructure and yet they are spaces often threatened by urban development.

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Network Nature x CLEARING HOUSE Videos: a collaboration with Task Force 4: NBS Communicators

30 March 20230

The Project CLEARING HOUSE in collaboration with Network Nature and its Taskforce have come together to create a series of videos on Nature Based Solutions (NBS).

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The role of brownfields and their revitalisation for the functional connectivity of the urban tree system

23 March 20230

Discover this new publication by CLEARING HOUSE partners Manuel Wolff and Dagmar Haase in collaboration with Jörg Priess and Tobias Leander Hoffmann. The publication focuses on the role of brownfields and their revitalisation for the functional connectivity of the urban tree system in a regrowing city

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Sustainable funding mechanism for Urban Forests as Nature-Based Solutions (UF-NBS) & cost-effectiveness

9 March 20230

CLEARING HOUSE is a Research and Innovation H2020 project which among several objectives, aims to create business and investment cases for Urban Forests as Nature Based Solutions (UF-NBS) on the basis of increased evidence about environmental, social and economic benefits.

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Governing Europe’s forests for multiple ecosystem services

30 January 20230

Europe’s forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning (e.g. wood) and regulating (e.g. climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (e.g. recreation) services.