Healthy soils for healthy cities
Welcome to an online event on World Soil Day, exploring how soils shape sustainable and healthy urban environments. Open to researchers, planners, environmental scientists, architects, health professionals, veterinarians, and others working at the intersection of soil, health, and urban development. The day consists of a morning session and an afternoon session.
Read more about our researchers linked to the Forum for Children and Landscape
At SLU, we work to strengthen research, education, and collaboration on outdoor environments for children and young people, brought together under the Forum for Children and Landscapes. Here you can read interviews with some of our teachers and researchers. Interviews in Swedish.
Urban rain gardens, nature-based solutions and designed plant communities
Join us for the next session in the Waterscapes lunch webinar series – a short, inspiring online event combining science, design, and practice. Open to researchers, practitioners, and students interested in water-related urban development and nature-based solutions.
News from SLU Urban Futures
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Securing food in the cities of the future
New risks, new legislation and new forms of collaboration raise the question: how can municipalities, regions and food system actors act to make Sweden more resilient in times of crisis? -
Food is a social lubricant
Most people now live in cities, and the taste preferences of city residents tend to determine which foods are in demand. This is why the city is key to ensuring a sustainable food supply, writes Håkan Jönsson, coordinator of the Food and Cities initiative at SLU. -
New pathways to sustainable milk through interdisciplinary research
How can Swedish milk production become more sustainable – for climate, soil, and animals? A new interdisciplinary research project at SLU explores whether agroecology could be the key to building more resilient and fair food systems. -
Interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem restoration
As Europe works to restore its natural environments, researchers at SLU are exploring new ways to reconnect ecosystems and people. By linking ecology, society and culture, they aim to create landscapes that are both resilient and meaningful. -
Sun, soil and synergy – the potential of agrivoltaics in a changing landscape
How can solar panels and agriculture coexist – and even benefit one another? That question was at the center of the webinar “Agrivoltaics: Frontiers and opportunities for new research”, part of SLU’s Climate Conversations series on future climate solutions.