BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Denser and greener cities\, Robert McDonald / URBDEMO
DTSTART:20230309T121500
DTEND:20230309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T084433Z
UID:7304d18e51c1c84a5b8d20f8161fa530b8dcb66c10322936d0cf760e
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Robert McDonald\, The Nature Conservancy\nLecture series in Ur
 ban Demography organized by the URBDEMO LAB EPFL-ENAC-IA\n\nThe Urban Demo
 graphy lab at EPFL has the pleasure to invite you to a series of six open 
 conferences on population dynamics and urban change in Switzerland and glo
 bally.\n\nLecture 1: “Denser and greener cities: Green interventions to 
 achieve both urban density and nature”\nPresenter: Robert McDonald\, The
  Nature Conservancy\n\nAbstract: Green spaces in urban areas—like remnan
 t habitat\, parks\, constructed wetlands\, and street trees—supply multi
 ple benefits. Many studies show green spaces in and near urban areas play 
 important roles harbouring biodiversity and promoting human well-being. On
  the other hand\, evidence suggests that greater human population density 
 enables compact\, low-carbon cities that spare habitat conversion at the f
 ringes of expanding urban areas\, while also allowing more walkable and li
 vable cities. How then can urban areas have abundant green spaces as well 
 as density? In this talk\, I present new quantitative data on the trade-of
 fs between density and urban green spaces\, for a global sample of cities.
  However\, this trade-off is weak statistically\, and there are significan
 t brightspots\, neighbourhoods that manage to have more tree canopy than w
 ould be expected based upon their level of density. I will end by describi
 ng techniques for how urban planners and designers can create more brights
 pots\, identifying a typology of urban forms and listing green interventio
 ns appropriate for each form.\n\nShort biography: Dr. Robert McDonald is L
 ead Scientist for Nature-Based Solutions at The Nature Conservancy.  He r
 esearches the impact and dependencies of communities on the natural world\
 , studying how nature can increase resilience in the face of climate chang
 e and improve human health and well-being.  He holds a PhD in Ecology fro
 m Duke University and has published more than 100 scientific publications 
 and two books. Prior to joining the Conservancy\, he was a Smith Conservat
 ion Biology Fellow at Harvard University\, studying the impact global urba
 n growth will have on biodiversity and conservation.  He also taught land
 scape ecology at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design\, helping architect
 s and planners incorporate ecological principles into their projects.\n 
LOCATION:ELD 020 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELD%20020 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/69424364811
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR