Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
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.
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.
