Webinar #23 - What has GBGI done for us & the valuation and impacts of urban GBGI 

RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar #23
The twenty-third webinar of the 'Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning Cities from Vulnerable Spaces to Healthy Places for People' took place on Wednesday, 10th April 2024. The webinar was chaired by RECLAIM co-investigator, Professor Prashant Kumar from the University of Surrey. This webinar included two speakers: Tom Wild, Principal Investigator for the Horizon 2020 project Conexus, Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Sheffield and Dr Louise Firth, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability, University College Cork, Ireland. Tom Wild delivered a talk on "Valuation and impacts of urban nature-based solutions" and Dr Louise Firth on "What has Green-blue grey infrastructure (GBGI) ever done for us?".
After the talk a Q&A session was chaired by Dr Thomas Kjeldsen.
Short bio of speakers:
• Tom Wild is based in the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Sheffield where he is the Principal Investigator for the Horizon 2020 project Conexus (www.conexusnbs.com). Tom is an ecologist, specialising in aquatic and riparian ecosystems, and catchment management practices. His research interests centre around the conditions, policies and practices that enable or hinder the rehabilitation and regeneration of impacted (and semi-natural) ecosystems. Much of his work has been concerned with values and the economic valuation of blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions, such as sustainable urban drainage (SUDS), deculverting and river restoration.
• Dr Louise Firth is a marine ecologist and lecturer at University College Cork. She is a globally-recognized expert on applying nature-based solutions to artificial structures in the marine environment. Her research focuses on understanding the ecology of the marine built environment and she is particularly interested in developing novel ways of making space for nature in human-dominated environments.
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