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Urban Nature for All: Building Capacity for Inclusive Urban Conservation

Why attend
At the moment, the way that nature is being brought into cities potentially ignores or actively excludes those who may benefit most, but this session will build your capacity to design urban nature strategies that contribute to social inclusion and social justice and help you take advantage of opportunities in cities to engage diverse communities.
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Cities offer real potential to engage diverse communities with nature, but at the moment the way that nature is being brought into cities potentially ignores or actively excludes those who may benefit most. This session will build capacity on how urban nature strategies and nature-based solutions can be designed to contribute to social inclusion and social justice. Nature-based solutions are projected to deliver multiple benefits across a range of social and environmental challenges. Yet, a great number of initiatives are being developed without taking into account how nature-based solutions can lead to gentrification and social exclusion. This interactive session will build the capacity of participants to pursue biodiversity-positive, climate-resilient and healthy urban habitats while ensuring that social inclusion goes beyond tokenistic gestures to lead to empowerment, and that initiatives are designed to deliver social justice alongside benefits for the environment and society.

Session agenda

Speaker

Amalia CALDERÓN-ARGELICH

PhD researcher,
ICTA/UAB
Spain

Urban Nature for All
11:00 - 13:00

Ana Terra AMORIM-MAIA

PhD Candidate,
BCNUEJ
Spain

Urban Nature For All
11:00 - 13:00

Julie ULRICH

Director of Urban Conservation ,
The Nature Conservancy
United States of America

Urban Nature For All
11:00 - 13:00

  • The Nature Conservancy [United States of America]
  • Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainabilitiy

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