This seminar series, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, will bring together scholars and community experts from a range of institutions across the world to consider this key question: What role can nature-based solutions play in remediating urban inequality and creating a more just, equitable, and environmentally sustainable urban future that is resilient to crises such as those precipitated by COVID-19? Through comparative analysis across different locations, the goals of the seminar series will be to trouble dichotomous Global North/Global South frameworks, identify key points of overlap and departure for the application of concepts and frameworks in the ecosystem services and nature-based solutions literature, and explore how engagements with the histories of infrastructure can inform approaches to just urban futures. By fostering an extended conversation across institutions and contexts, the ultimate aim is to provide an opportunity to share best practices and establish future directions for anti-racist and decolonial coupled human-nature systems research on nature-based solutions in cities.

This Webinar represents the kick-off event of the seminar series and is open to the public. The invited speakers will briefly introduce their work in the form of 5-minute ‘lightning-‘ or ‘speed-talks’ and then engage in a panel discussion and Q&A session with the audience.

We’ve secured a great line-up of guest speakers from around the world, including:
  • Bonnie Keeler, University of Minnesota, USA
  • Pippin Anderson, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Olumuyiwa Adegun, Federal Univerity of Technology Akure, Nigeria
  • Linjun Xie, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
  • Seema Mundoli, Azim Premji University, India
  • Austin Gage Matheney, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
We look forward to an interesting and thought-provoking conversation. Feel free to share this announcement with your network.
Please visit the Urban Studies Foundation for more information about this seminar series, as well as other projects funded under the programme.

There is no registration fee to attend the webinar.

Please use the links below to register for this event:

Zoom: Click here to register.

Zoom Webinar ID: 925 6860 9128

Date: 3 March 2022

Time: 08:00 (US CST: GMT -6)| 16:00 (SAST: GMT +2) | 19:30 (IST: GMT +5:30)

Maike Hamann of the CST and Kate Derickson of the University of Minnesota are the organisers of this event.