Nature
Half of urban trees are outside their "comfort zone": future plantings must consider climate resilience
Trees growing in cities world-wide may be at risk from climate change. Urban greening must use species that can cope with (...)
Urban Heat Island map for Geneva, Brussels, Montreal and Baltimore
Some different approaches are used to identif UHI as Land Surface Temperature or microclimate simulation … This small study (...)
Irrigation of the Green Garden Concept
Context and climate-related issues Jordan, located in an arid and semi-arid region, is one of the countries with the scarcest (...)
Fjord View - energy efficient social housing
“Fjordudsigten” is the name of these houses which means ‘The View of the Fjord’ in Danish. It is located on the west coast (...)
The Future of Urban Greening: A Study of One Million Trees to Determine the Best Species to Plant
The many greening projects planned by cities face challenging issues, including which tree species should be planted today (...)
How to increase the use of nature-based solutions in urban areas?
Nature-based solutions (NBS) offer multiple benefits to address urban sustainable-development problems, especially related (...)
Eleven Important Attitudes To Go Green In Your Apartment
Fully adapting to a green lifestyle can be a challenge for some. However, you can gradually turn the learned practices (...)
X BioEconomic® Sitges 2021 Conference “Biophilia, reconnecting the city and buildings with nature”.
The Sitges City Council and BioEconomic are pleased to announce the X BioEconomic® Sitges 2021 Conference “Biophilia, reconne (...)
Evaluating the impact of nature-based solutions
Credits: European Commission The Handbook aims to provide decision-makers with a comprehensive NBS impact assessment framewor (...)
A nature-based Liverpool is on the way
The English city is renaturing itself, hence becoming more resilient to climate change and improving citizens’ quality of (...)
2 questions to Catherine Papillon, Global Head of Sustainable Development & CSR at BNP Paribas Real Estate
Today, more than half of the world's population lives in cities. Demographic pressure in urban areas will continue to increas (...)
Renaturing cities: good for health and the economy
Nature has historically been a ‘blind spot’ for urban planners. Spatial analyst Thami Croeser reveals how many cities are (...)
Integrating Green and Grey: Creating next generation infrastructure
A new generation of infrastructure projects that harness the power of nature can help achieve development goals, including (...)
GSA Trends 2019 #8 Nature in the city
In the 2019 edition of the Green Solutions Awards – Districts, there are 15 case studies participating, projects coming from (...)
Sexism also exists in botany
An increase in allergies associated with pollen may be a self-inflicted wound caused by our preference for male plants, hence (...)