Upcoming Webinar Schedule
NEXT WEBINAR: december 10, 2024
This webinar will begin at 7am (UTC-7, Phoenix), 9am (UTC-5, New York), 2pm (UTC+0, London), 4pm (UTC+2, Cape Town), 10pm (UTC+8, Beijing). Please join the webinar via Zoom. Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android.
NATURA WEBINAR #47
December 10, 2024
Charlotte Steijnen | “Daylighting Tibbets Brook (The Bronx, NYC): Planning and Governance trade-offs” (PhD Candidate at the department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
NATURA WEBINAR #46
November 12, 2024
Rembrandt Zegers | Book presentation "Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature" (UN Harmony with Nature Program)
PRESENTATION (PDF)
NATURA WEBINAR #45
October 10, 2024
Paul Bois | The ecology of de-paved urban soils | The National Water and Environmental Engineering School of Strasbourg (France)
NATURA webinar #44
September 10, 2024
SLA | The nature-based solution design studio using interdisciplinary methods in their design practice (Copenhagen, Denmark)
PRESENTATION (PDF)
NATURA WEBINAR #43
June 11, 2024
Loredana Scuto (IUCN) | Designing, Implementing and Monitoring NbS: The Work of IUCN in Urban Ecosystems
Weiqi Zhou (Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Sciences) | Trees as Nature-based Solutions for Heat Mitigation and Adaptation in Cities
NATURA WEBINAR #42
May 21, 2024
Victor Kinjo (Istitudo de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo/ Agua Viva Cultura y Sostenibilidade) | For a New Water Culture: NbS and Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change
PRESENTATION (PDF)
Gabriel Tenaya Kaprelian (California Polytechnic State University) | Augmented Reality as a Platform to Visualize Cohabitation of Tidal Ecologies Along Singapore’s Waterfront
PRESENTATION (PDF)
NATURA WEBINAR #41
April 9, 2024
Yaella Depietri and Liav (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) | NBS Case Study in Tel-Aviv
PRESENTATION
NATURA WEBINAR #40
March 27, 2024
Recap of the Global Roadmap (GRM) Workshop and All-Hands Meeting!
NATURA WEBINAR #39
January 8, 2024
Rebecca Tiernan (Arizona State University, Early Career Fellow) | Exploring Urban Nature and Resilience in Cape Town, South Africa
PRESENTATION
NATURA WEBINAR #38
December 12, 2023
Alannah Hofemeier (Plan Adapt, Berlin, Germany) | Participatory methods to plan and design Nature-based Solutions in the context of informal settlements
PRESENTATION
At the end of the webinar, Vanessa Champion will introduce the Journal of Biophilic Design of which she is the Founder and Editorial Director. The Journal of Biophilic Design celebrates biophilia in all its forms, through scientific contributions to nature photography.
NATURA WEBINAR #37 (recording)
November 14, 2023
Dr. Philip Levin (Director, National Nature Assessment at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy) | “Insights from National Nature Assessment”
PRESENTATION
NATURA WEBINAR #36 (recording)
October 10, 2023
Rebecca Snyder (Trinity College, Dublin) |"Exploring trait-based approaches in Dublin and beyond".
Ame Min-Venditti and Daniella Rivera-Agudelo from the Resilient Urban Latin America International Research Experience for Students | "Sources of Urban Resilience and Regenerative Solutions: Water, Green Spaces and Environmental Risk in the Community Identity in south of Bogotá".
NATURA WEBINAR #35 (recording)
September 12, 2023
Christopher Raymond and Team | *new network introduction* Transformative Cities
Rembrandt Zeigers and Gijs van Zonneveld | *talk* The challenge to achieve governance for scaling up rewilding at sea
NATURA WEBINAR #34 (RECORDING)
May 9, 2023
Kezia Ojal | *new network introduction* Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI)
NATURA WEBINAR #33
March 14, 2023
Joeri Morpurgo, Natural Capital Project | A Consolidated Urban Green Infrastructure Classification (CUGIC) for assessing biodiversity and ecosystem services
PRESENTATION (PDF)
Chris Kennedy, Urban Systems Lab | Partnering with Fungi to Benefit Forest Ecosystems in Central Texas
NATURA WEBINAR #32
February 14, 2023
TWG Annual Report Back (pt. 2) | NBS Global Roadmap, Design for Justice, and Urban Ecological Resilience working groups
NBS Global Roadmap TWG | Loan Diep (Urban Systems Lab)
Design for Justice TWG | Chingwen Cheng (UREx SRN)
Urban Ecological Resilience TWG | Erik Andersson (ENABLE, SMARTer Greener Cities)
NATURA WEBINAR #31(recording)
January 10, 2023
TWG Annual Report Back (pt. 1) | Utilizing the eLTER working group
Introducing the TWG "Utilizing eLTER" | Daniel Orenstein
SETS and long-term data gathering: Example from Copenhagen | Natalie Gulsrud
NBS and long-term ecosystem observation: Example from Crete | Nikolaos Nikolaidis and Marie Mimikou
PRESENTATION (PDF)
NATURA WEBINAR #30 (recording)
Dec. 13. 2022
Eric Butler, Clackamas River Basin Council, Portland (US)
Antonieta Peregrina (Iniciativa Río Tijuana), Carlos Agudelo, Carlos Sabogal (Universidad de La Salle), Duván López (RECNET)
NATURA Webinar #29 (recording)
Nov. 8, 2022
Björn Wickenberg, IIIEE/LU | Translation and Implementation of Nature-based Solutions in Cities – Experimentation, Learning and Knowledge Production
PRESENTATION (PDF)
NATURA Webinar #28
October 11, 2022
Jorge Morales-Guerrero, Katherine Weiss, and Mandy Kuhn, Arizona State University, School of Sustainability | Community visions of the Salt River - Rio Reimagined | Immersive, Interdisciplinary, Identity-based Team Science Experiences (IIITSE 2022)
PRESENTATION (PDF)
Carlos Romero and Isabella Pacenza | Climate extremes in human settlements: learning from communities (Resilient Urban Latin America Research Experience for Students (RULA-IRES)
PRESENTATION (PDF)
NATURA Webinar #27
September 13, 2022
Katinka Wijsman, Utrecht University | What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions
Jennifer Rae Pierce, Urban Biodiversity Hub | Global Targets & Local Practices for Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions
NATURA Webinar #25 (Recording)
May 10, 2022
Melissa Ingaruca Moreno, Clair Cooper, and Laura Costadone | Early-Career Fellowship presentations (presentation)
NATURA Webinar #24 (Recording)
March 8, 2022
David Iwaniec | *network introduction* SETS Convergence Project (presentation)
NATURA Webinar #23 (Recording)
February 8, 2022
Clive Davies | *network introduction* European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) (presentation)
NATURA Webinar #22 (RECORDING)
January 11, 2022
Mike Treglia and Emily Emily Maxwell | new Nature Conservancy Report: The State of the NYC Urban Forest (Presentation)
Link to report (link)
NATURA Webinar #21
December 14, 2021
TWG: Urban Informalities
TWG: Design for Justice
TWG: Global Roadmap
NATURA Webinar #20 (Recording) (chat)
November 9, 2021
TWG: Global to Local
TWG: Urban Nature
TWG: Nature based Pathways
NATURA Webinar #19
October 12, 2021
Nea Pakarinen | ICLEI Europe
NATURA Webinar #18
September 14, 2021
Rik De Vreese | CLEARING HOUSE and European Forest Institute
Presentation (PDF)
NATURA Webinar #17
August 10, 2021
NATURA Webinar #16
July 13, 2021
Tadhg MacIntyre (GoGreenRoutes)
Manuel Colón (Intemperie Studio)
NATURA WEBINAR #15
June 8, 2021
Russell Galt (IUCN Urban Nature Alliance)
Presentation (PDF)
NATURA Webinar #14
May 11, 2021
Elvia Melendez Ackerman (San Juan ULTRA Network)
Christopher Raymond (VIVA Plan and ENVISION Project)
Presentations (PDF)
NATURA Webinar #13
April 20, 2021
Henrik Dahl and Per Andersson (Future Position X Network)
Presentation (PDF)
Matteo Giusti (BIG Project)
Presentation (PDF)
Stephan Barthel (Future Proof Cities Project and FAIRTRANS Project)
Presentation (PDF)
NATURA Webinar #12
March 23, 2021
NATURA Webinar #10
January 19, 2021
PlanAdapt | Mariana Vidal Merino
Western Center for Metropolitan Extension & Research (WCMER) | Brad Gaolach
NATURA Webinar #9
December 15, 2020
ReNature | Mario Balzan
International and Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem Critical zone and Socio-ecological Research project (ILTER and eLTER-RI) | Daniel Orenstein and Kinga Krauze
NATURA Webinar #8
November 17, 2020
Central Arizona-Phoenix and Baltimore Ecosystem Studies Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP-LTER and BES-LTER) project | Dan Childers and Emma J Rosi
NATURA Webinar #7
October 20, 2020
Biophilic Cities | JD Brown and Tim Beatley
African Centre for Cities | Pippin Anderson
NATURA Webinar #6
September 15, 2020
Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) | Kristin Baja
The Nature Conservancy | Clare Kazanski
NATURA Webinar #5
August 11, 2020
USDA Forest Service | Sarah Hines
Connecting Nature | Marcus Collier
NATURA Webinar #4
June 9, 2020
ICLEI’s Cities Biodiversity Center and Cities with Nature | Timothy Blatch
UNESCO Chair of Sustainability (UNESCOSOST) and Recycling the City Network (RECNET) | Jordi Morató and Duván Hernán López
NATURA Webinar #3
May 12, 2020
The Nature of Cities | David Maddox
Beyond the Academy Network and the CREATE Initiative | Bonnie Keeler
NATURA WEBINAR #2
April 14, 2020
Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network (KAN) and The Nature Conservancy North American Cities Program | Giles Sioen
Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN), ASU | Nancy Grimm
NATURA WEBINAR #1
March 17, 2020
NATURA introduction and welcome from the coordinating Committee Team.