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PUBLICATIONS, Nantes — February 15, 2023

[Research Paper 🇫🇷] Urban soil mapping: A method for characterising soil cover subjected to different forms of denaturation and anthroposolisation

URBiNAT scientific partners from Nantes published an article in the in the French Journal EGS - Etude et Gestion des Sols.

PUBLICATIONS, Sofia — December 16, 2022

[Research Paper 🇧🇬] Findings of URBiNAT’s Frontrunner City Sofia presented at several international conferences

Associate professors Milena Tasheva-Petrova and Elena Dimitrova, University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia, Bulgaria, presented findings from URBiNAT in a number of international conferences.

PUBLICATIONS, Nantes — November 17, 2022

[Research Paper 🇫🇷] Allotment gardens: Psychosocial benefits and conflictual community aspects

In this qualitative study carried out in France (Nantes), 28 people with a plot in an allotment garden were questioned through semi-directive interviews about the psychosocial impact of this type of space.

BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS, Høje-Taastrup — November 10, 2022

[Høje-Taastrup 🇩🇰] Booklet co-produced by citizens and local stakeholders involved in selecting NBS and co-creating a Healthy Corridor

Booklet co-produced by citizens and local stakeholders involved in selecting NBS and co-creating a Healthy Corridor in the town of Høje-Taastrup in the greater Copenhagen region.

CONFERENCE, PUBLICATIONS — October 13, 2022

[Research Paper] Two URBiNAT Papers in Proceedings of DoCoMoMo 2022

URBiNAT consortium members in Porto have published paper in the journal of Docomomo international, the non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement

NBS Policy, PUBLICATIONS, Brussels — October 3, 2022

[European Commission 🇪🇺] EU funded Environment and Health research: EU Project Catalogue

A unique collection of 351 projects (including URBiNAT) funded from all the relevant areas in Horizon 2020, the 8th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

BEST PRACTICES, PUBLICATIONS — July 11, 2022

[Policy Brief] “For a better urban future” – URBiNAT at the World Urban Forum 2022, Katowice, Poland

Sharing the project results and discussing innovative urban governance with cities.

PUBLICATIONS, Porto — June 19, 2022

[Book Chapter] Cocriar a cidade com as crianças: o caso do projeto URBiNAT no Porto, Campanhã

PUBLICATIONS — May 17, 2022

[Policy Brief] Innovating with urban governance: municipal committees for inclusive, nature-based solutions

This policy brief explores the challenges and innovative opportunities for institutionalising participatory processes within municipal contexts. Specifically, we report on the creation of municipal committees, a proposal framed within the EU-funded project URBiNAT aimed at co-creating healthy corridors made up of a combination of nature-based solutions (NBS).