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How can planners and urban designers best promote biodiversity at the urban scale?
Online only
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.
Date:
10 March 2026, 18:15
Venue:
Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details:
Online only
Speakers:
Dr Oskar Kindvall,
Dr Joanna Bagniewska (Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford),
Dr Francesca Froy (Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford),
Dr Thomas Hesselberg (Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department for Continuing Education
Organiser:
Sarah Cocks (Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
sud@conted.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/about/online-lecture-how-best-to-promote-biodiversity-at-the-urban-scale
Booking email:
sud@conted.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Anyone
Editor:
Sarah Cocks
