Urban Ecology and Sustainable Living

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Date 21.04.2015 22.04.2015
Hour 08:4512:00
Speaker by Prof Claudia BINDER, Prof. Ruchi CHOUDHARY, Dr. Eva KNOP, Prof. Sylvie LORENTE, Dr. Nahid MOHAJERI and Prof. Christine THURING
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Category Conferences - Seminars
series of 6 lectures, see below:

Tues 21 at 08:45 : Claudia Binder

Full professor of Human Environment Relations, University of Munich, Germany
"Transitions of Social-Ecological Systems towards Sustainability: A Contribution to Urban Ecology"

Tues 21 at 09:30 Christine Thuring
Early career researcher, University of Sheffield, UK
"Soils and Plants: Cities and People - Urban Ecological Design for a Sustainable Future"

Tues 21 at 10:30 Ruchi Choudhary
Associate Professor, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, UK
"Energy Efficient Built-Environments: from unit to city-scale"

Tues 21 at 11:15  Sylvie Lorente
Full professor, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), France
"The City: Live Organism with Design and Sustainability from Principle"

Wed 22 at 08:45, Eva Knop, Postdoctoral fellow, Group leader and lecturer, University of Bern, Institute of Ecology and Evolution & University of Zürich, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
"Understanding the Urban Ecosystem: Drivers of Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning in Cities"

Wed 22 at 09:30 Nahid Mohajeri, Postdoctoral fellow, Solar Energy and Building Physics Lab, EPFL, Switzerland
"Building Sustainable Cities: From Ecology “in” Cities to Ecology “of” Cities"