22 Aug

Sankt Gertrud Konferens, Östergatan 7B, Malmö

Workshop on developing an SLU Landscape research strategy on urban ecosystem services

There is a current increase of the urban population putting pressure on cities to cope with the increase of people at the same time as maintaining functionality. Currently there is a strong drive to densify cities resulting in a loss of green areas. The concept of urban ecosystem services (UESS) emphasize the multi-facetted importance of urban natural environments for human uses, societal benefits, and socio-ecological values in urban setting. Such multivalent qualities cannot be approached by single disciplines and there is a clear need for inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to achieve sustainable urban development. To critically reflect on contemporary concepts from smart city to nature-based solutions and to affect actual practices, we would like to pick your brains and assess the diverse expertise at SLU that impacts UESS.

NOW you are invited to develop with us an SLU research strategy on urban ecosystem services, with these objectives in mind: 

  • To discuss the proposed research and innovation themes from the event in Brussels and develop them with the focus on UESS.
  • Mapping strengths in research fields relevant for UESS at SLU. 
  • Identify relevant inter- and/or transdisciplinary research junctions for engaging with UESS in the future. 
  • Make a reconnaissance on where the future calls within sustainable urban development are heading, that could help us develop a strategy at SLU Landscape.

Goal: An abstract for an SLU Landscape strategy on urban ecosystem services and a plan of further development, if needed.

 

Facts

Time: 2019-08-22 09:30 - 15:00
City: Malmö
Location: Sankt Gertrud Konferens, Östergatan 7B
Organiser: SLU Landscape - Call for ideas
Last signup date: 16 August 2019
Additional info:

Please state your interest at the latest by 16/08/2019 by email to: harald.klein@slu.se

Note that we will ask all participants to prepare a short presentation (pecha-kucha style). More information will follow having registered.  

Best wishes,

CFI Team 
Harald Klein - Movium, Caroline Hägerhäll – AEM, Åsa Ode Sang – LAPF & Nina Vogel – SLU Urban Futures

Background:

The Impact Platform on Urban Ecosystem Services was a project (2016-2018) run jointly by SLU/Movium, et al. The objective was to influence future calls within the EU framework programme for research and innovation, as well as to increase Swedish participation at EU level.

In March 2018, a workshop was organized in Brussels, with the overarching objective to identify synergies and partnerships between Sweden's new Sustainable Cities Agenda and the EU Sustainable Urbanization Agenda 2018–2022.

At that time, the SLU team could identify the following research and innovation themes within urban research and practice:

  • Carbon neutral, green and livable cities – Developing and assessing the co-benefits and costs of paired nature-based and carbon neutral solutions
  • Arts-based science approaches to sustainable urbanization – Role of film, music, theatre, and dance in the co-design of integrated solutions
  • Urban agriculture as a means for promoting social cohesion and livelihood – Regenerative economies
  • The contribution of public and semi-public space to social cohesion and well-being – Citizen observatories – senses of place within temporary or permanent spaces
  • Co-creating nature-inspired and smart cities – Engaging cross-sectoral communities of practice through mosaic governance
  • Redefining the urban – connectivity between the rural and the urban – Social-ecological and technological futures

 


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