Claudia Trillo, University of Salford
Biodiversity is gaining increased popularity in the environmental planning debate and profession. The recently released Dasgupta Review strongly emphasised the importance of biodiversity for an healthy socio-economic growth, and recommended transformative and systemic change to tackle the global climate challenge. In the UK, Biodiversity Net Gain will soon become a mandatory requirement, thus calling for an approach to development and land management aimed at leaving the natural environment in a measurably better state than it was beforehand. How this could be reflected in the planning practice and projects? What practical examples can be shared…
Simona Collarini, Director of Urban Planning Head Office, Municipality of Milan
For a long time it was thought that innovation, economic growth and increased employment could not be pursued while also managing to face the environmental challenges of our time. Yet it is essential to use natural resources in a sustainable way in the long term and the interest, including the European Union, for Nature Based Solutions (NBS) goes in this direction.
The European Commission defines NBS as “Nature-inspired and nature-supported, cost-effective solutions that simultaneously provide environmental, social, and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring increasingly diverse nature,…