THEMATIC WORKING GROUP

The Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-Based Solutions

The Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-Based Solutions assesses knowledge, challenges, and opportunities for innovation in research and practice within and across the world regions

The Global Roadmap synthesizes scientific evidence on Nature-based Solutions (NBS) and identifies knowledge gaps to leverage learning from NBS implementation within and across world regions. It develops and compares regional profiles of the state of knowledge in research and practice in US & Canada, Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East & North Africa, Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Outputs include a high-level report and a series of communications serving at both global and regional levels to facilitate innovation and the effective impact of urban NBS. NATURA launched the Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-Based Solutions at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montréal, Canada.

Connecting Global NBS initiatives

This NATURA initiative is conceived to fill the global assessment of urban NbS knowledge gap and to leverage, connect to, and support global initiatives and policy agendas led by the Convention on Biological Diversity (UN-CBD), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the World Economic Forum (WEF) and others, while also supporting regional, national, and local policymaking and planning.

Our new website nbsroadmap.org is coming soon

Leadership Team

  • Timon McPhearson, The New School/New York University, USA

  • Loan Diep, The New School/New York University, USA

Advisory Team

  • Niki Frantzeskaki, University of Utrecht,

  • Erik Andersson, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Rob McDonald, The Nature Conservancy

  • Pippin Anderson, University of Cape Town, South Africa

  • Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University, United Kingdom

  • Yeowon Kim, Korea University, South Korea

  • Weiqi Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Literature Review Team

  • Loan Diep, The New School/New York University, USA

  • Rebecca Tiernan, Arizona State University, USA

  • Natalie Pierson, The New School/New York University, USA

  • Vanya Bisht, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Dave Kendal, Future in Nature, Australia

  • Sofya Krasnaya, The New School, USA

Data Analysis Team

  • Loan Diep, The New School/New York University, USA

  • Carole Alazki, The New School, USA

  • Natalie Pierson, The New School/New York University, USA

  • Veronica Olivotto, The New School/New York University, USA

Design and Dissemination

  • Phuong Anh Bui, The New School/New York University, USA

  • Valérie Lechêne, The New School, USA

Africa Team

Leads

  • Eric Hubbard, Sierra Leone

  • Pippin Anderson, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Fellows

  • Inca Horn, South Africa

Asia Team

Leads

  • Chandni Singh, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

  • Perrine Hamel, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Fellows

  • Erich Wolff, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Maitreyi Koduganti Venkata, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India

Europe Team

Leads

  • Natalie Gulsrud, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Christopher Raymond, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Davide Geneletti, University of Trento, Italy

Fellows

  • Oriol García-Antúnez, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Eugenia Castellazzi, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Jarumi Kato Huerta, University of Toronto, Canada

Latin America & The Caribbean (LAC) Team

Leads

  • Elizabeth Cook, Barnard College, USA

  • Taícia Marques, University of Connecticut, USA

  • Cynnamon Dobbs, University of Connecticut, USA

Fellows

  • Taryn Sanchez Montesinos, University of Connecticut, USA

  • Fabiana Wütrich, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil

Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Team

Leads

  • Yaser Abunnasr, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  • Elie Mansour, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Lebanon

Fellows

  • Sarah Jaroush, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

  • Serkan Naneci, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Oceania Team

Leads

  • Dave Kendal, Future Nature, Australia

  • Brenda Lin, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

  • Niki Frantzeskaki, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Fellows

  • Annemie Rose Janssen, Macquarie University, Australia

  • Clare Adams

US-Canada Team

Leads

  • Nancy Grimm, Arizona State University, USA

  • Carly Ziter, Concordia University, Canada

Fellows

  • Vanya Bisht, University of Waterloo, Canada

Contact Information

Point of Contact: Loan Diep (loan.diep@nyu.edu)