Venue
Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Sigmaringer Straße 25, Nürtingen, Ground Floor, Room 012
Forum Keynote Lecture #1 from TELOS
Mainstreaming resilient and inclusive urban economies embedded in Nature: Perspectives from Landscape Economy with Beatrice Andreucci, La Sapienza University of Rome
Time: Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 09 00 AM CET
Maria Beatrice Andreucci is an architect, landscape architect and economist. She holds a Ph.D. Doctor Europaeus in Environmental Design and works as Research Professor at the Department of Planning, Design, Technology of Architecture, La Sapienza University of Rome. She has published more than 100 scientific products, including 5 books, and has delivered more than 80 oral presentations and keynotes in international conferences and workshops. She is leading several EU funded projects, and her work continues to engage environmental technological design, landscape ecology, and economic valuation as an evolving integrated framework, linking nature-based solutions’ performance assessment, economic valuation of ecosystem services, climate mitigation, and urban resilience capacity building.
Forum Keynote Lecture #2 from WAVE
From regional visions to local meaningfulness: Making multi-scalar green space governance and planning work with Cecil Konijnendijk
Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 17 00 PM CET
Cecil Konijnendijk has over 25 years of experience studying, teaching, and advising on aspects of urban forestry and nature-based solutions. He is widely considered as one of the world’s leading urban forestry experts, and his work has been featured by leading media outlets such as CNBC and in international documentary films. A Dutch national, he has lived and worked in Europe, Asia, and North America. He is an honorary professor of urban forestry at the University of British Columbia. Cecil helped found the leading academic journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, and edited seminal textbooks such as The Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry. He is currently Editor-in-chief of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry, the scientific journal of the International Society of Arboriculture. He has published widely. Cecil is passionate about using trees and nature to develop better cities, and always stresses the importance of building meaningful relationships between people and places. He has advised international organisations such as the United Nations, as well as national and local governments in more than 30 countries, and was an invited panelist at the 8th Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe in April 2021.