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How can planners and urban designers best promote biodiversity at the urban scale?

Sustainable business and solutions | Nature and the biosphere

Oxford Lifelong Learning
Oxford Lifelong Learning

Cities have the potential to play a significant role in meeting national conservation and biodiversity goals. However, there is a growing understanding that just quantifying the total area of green spaces in cities is not sufficient - connectiveness between sites of biodiversity is equally important. The built environment and transport infrastructure can act as barriers to this connectivity without us being fully aware.

  • Date (DD-MM-YYYY)

    10-03-2026

  • Time (GMT/BST)

    Starts at 18:15

  • Cost

    Free

  • Education type

    Virtual

  • CPD subtype

    Scheduled

Description

To understand how to better 'connect up urban nature’ there is a need to develop more refined tools to identify the optimal connectiveness, size and structural heterogeneity of urban sites to enhance biodiversity.

One such model has been developed by Oskar Kindvall and his colleagues from Chalmers University for the city of Gothenburg in Sweden.

In this free online lecture and panel discussion, we will learn how city leaders, planners, transport officials, ecologists, environmental managers, and property developers can learn from this new approach, which is also about to be applied here in Oxford.

This is a joint lecture between the Sustainable Urban Development Programme and the Ecological Survey Techniques Programme. Join us for what promises to be a lively discussion!

Image credit: Tiffany Yiu. Winner of the Nature in the City category of the Sustainable Urban Development annual photo competition, 2023.

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