The UNESCO Chair on Sustainability (UNESCO-SOST) is an international centre of excellence for resilience and sustainability science applied for transformation at local and regional scales.

Point of Contact: Jordi Morató

UNESCO European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology (ERCE): Development of ecohydrological biotechnologies and systemic solutions by international cooperation in the framework of UNESCO International Hydrological Programme and European Commission projects.

Point of Contact: Maciej Zalewski

The Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) focuses on integrating social, ecological, and technical systems to devise, analyze, and support urban infrastructure decisions in the face of climatic uncertainty.

Point of Contact: Nancy Grimm

The Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) is a peer-to-peer network of local government professionals from communities across the United States and Canada dedicated to creating a healthier environment, economic prosperity, and increased social equity.

Point of Contact: Kristin Baja

The US Forest Service’s mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.

Point of Contact: Sarah Hines

The Urban Biodiversity Hub (UBHub) helps cities around the world to measure and promote their biodiversity and assess their biodiversity strategy. We work with municipal and other local governments and their partners to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their biodiversity planning, according to the goals they set for themselves.

Point of Contact: Jennifer Rae Pierce

The UWIN Network is a consortium of multiple academic institutions and key water industry partners with activities currently in six regions across the U.S. designed to address water challenges in a variety of contexts from coastal communities to high plain deserts.

Point of Contact: Mazdak Arabi

VIVA-PLAN is about revitalising in-between spaces in residential housing areas to promote nature conservation, social inclusion and human well-being.

Point of Contact: Christopher Raymond

The Western Center for Metropolitan Extension and Research works to increase the internal capacity of Extension programs to address metropolitan issues. We partner with cities, NGO’s, and businesses – connecting our partners with university professionals working across the United States – to develop place-based and data-driven solutions to societal issues. In the past few years, we have focused on urban sustainability and green infrastructure, urban-suburban-rural interdependencies, and creating a culture of health across connected communities.

Point of Contact: Brad Gaolach

CLEARING HOUSE uses trees as a means to improve urban living in both Europe and China.

Point of Contact: Rik De Vreese

The Converging Social, Ecological, and Technological Infrastructure Systems (SETS) for Urban Resilience project is a 5-year initiative to accelerate advances in convergent urban systems science capable of providing cities with the knowledge and methods for building integrated SETS resilience strategies to extreme events, supported by cutting-edge modeling, simulation, and visualization of infrastructure systems. The project will develop and refine an urban resilience conceptual framework to guide an emerging, convergent urban systems science for cities to test and deploy in San Juan (PR), Atlanta, New York, and Phoenix.

Point of Contact: Mikhail Chester

The Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia (the Partnership) is the hub for a “convening for action” network in the local government setting, is responsible for delivering the Water Sustainability Action Plan program through partnerships and collaboration, and embraces a vision for shared responsibility where all the players align their efforts for the greater common good.

KDI is a non-profit design and community development organization founded in Nairobi in 2006 with offices in Kenya, Sweden, and the US. We partner with under-resourced communities to advance equity and activate the unrealized potential in neighborhoods and cities through advocacy, research, planning, and built works. We have been working together with citizens on urban nature, Nature-based Solutions, and Green Infrastructure over the last 15 years through our award-winning Kibera Public Space Project and related programs, and in the last four years have launched a significant program on "Realising urban Nature-based Solutions" (R u NBS?) in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam. We are a team of landscape architects, urban planners, civil engineers, architects, community organizers, and researchers focused on alleviating economic, environmental, and social challenges to enable communities to have a healthy, prosperous, and happy life.

Point of Contact: Franklin Kimiri

The Stockholm Resilience Centre, is a research centre on resilience and sustainability science at Stockholm University. It is a joint initiative between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Point of Contact: Erik Andersson

The wide-ranging and multidisciplinary Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme (ECOENV) investigates the effects of human activity on land and aquatic ecosystems, as well as how these effects are reflected in society. Our researchers are looking for solutions to current environmental problems. Societally, research-based knowledge in environmental sciences can be used to curb climate change as well as foster biodiversity and habitats in support of environmental and human wellbeing.

Point of Contact: Erik Andersson

The MUST project co-creates knowledge to interrelate the needs of humans and other species. The interdisciplinary team brings together researchers from environmental education to human geography, environmental economics, spatial ecology, resilience in urban and regional planning and geospatial approaches, exploring how to change our relationship with nature.

Point of Contact: christopher.raymond@helsinki.fiChris Raymond

SLA is a nature-based design studio working globally with cities, nature, places, and people.

Point of Contact: Alexandra Burgos-Thorsen