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2nd video
No full text<p>2nd REGREEN video, providing key insights into the REGREEN, an EC Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation and China MOST funded project on fostering equitable, green and healthy cities in Europe and China.</p>
<p><span>The video was produced in cooperation with external professionals</span><span> from </span><span>Pix Videos Production Company S.L. </span></p>
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<p>Automated Profiling of Gene Function During Embryonic Development</p>
<p>Rebecca A. Green, Renat N. Khaliullin, Zhiling Zhao, Stacy. D. Ochoa, Jeffrey M. Hendel, Tiffany-Lynn Chow, HongKee Moon, Ronald J. Biggs, Arshad Desai and Karen Oegema</p>
<p>Submitted for publication 2023</p>
Cost-effectiveness of NBS in the Urban environment. D2.3 REGREEN
No full textIn this deliverable D2.3 in the REGREEN project, we provide an overview of costs for nature areas that can serve as NBS. We provide cost estimates for green and blue spaces in urban and peri‐urban areas. We also provide cost estimates for de‐pavement projects, street trees, green roofs and green walls. We show that these cost estimates can be applied in cost‐effectiveness analysis in three different examples. We furthermore discuss how the cost‐effectiveness analysis can be expanded to account for the potential multiple benefits provided by nature in urban and peri‐urban areas that are in line with the spatial planning policy objectives by local authorities. We argue that a stepwise ranking of policy objectives in a cost‐ effectiveness analysis is a viable approach that will enable policymakers to make an informed choice over competing solutions
Survey questionnaire data on Perceptions, interactions, and responses to urban natural environments through ecological momentary assessment
No full text<p>Data consist of a R file format and contain the cleaned survey quistionaire data where people were asked about their perceptions, interactions, and responses to urban natural environments. For more information please read the following report Published as part of the Regreen Horizon project. </p>
<p>Panduro, T.E., Zandersen, M., Guell, C., Lovell, R., Garrett, J., Taylor, T., Fullam, J., Amegbor, P. (2024) Perceptions, interactions, and responses to urban natural environments through ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Deliverable D4.6. REGREEN - Fostering nature-based solutions for smart, green and healthy urban transitions in Europe and China. Horizon2020 Grant No. 821016. https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10594764</p>
Interactive Walkable Floor Maps (IWFs)
Get PDFThe poster provides information on the design of Interactive Walkable Floor Maps (IWFs) and their use in education and governance within the REGREEN project
Guidelines for a 'depaving' and 'regreening' strategy in cities. D3.2 REGREEN
No full textThe loss of soil functions and ecosystem services is one of the major environmental challenges Europe is facing. Despite a reduction in the last decade, land take in EU28 still amounted to 539km2/year between 2012‐2018. Since the mid‐1950s, the total surface area of cities in the EU has increased by 78% while the population has grown by just 33% [1]. Population growth can also drive land take, but built‐up areas are expanding more quickly than populations are growing. Urban sprawl often continues even where populations are decreasing. In France, the rate of land take in France is the highest in Europe, occurring 4 times faster than population growth. This phenomenon is now foremost among the drivers of rapid climate change and the erosion of biodiversity [2].
To address this global problem, the European Commission has proposed in the EU Environment Action Programme to 2020 (7th EAP) to achieve ‘no net land take’ by 2050. Sealing agricultural land and open spaces should be avoided as far as possible and the focus should be on building on land that has already been sealed. In France, the national objective dubbed Zéro Artificialisation Nette (Net Zero Land Take) marks a turning point in strategies designed to slow urban sprawl as it places the emphasis on urban renewal and densification. It also introduces a renaturing goal that involves “giving back to nature” an amount of land equivalent to that consumed by urban growth. For example, unused land could be returned to cultivation or renaturalised so that it can once again provide the ecosystem services of unsealed soils. The implementation of the Net Zero Land Take goal, however necessary it may be, may nevertheless result in even greater urban densification in cities that are already suffering from climate change and dwindling biodiversity. Moreover, the estimated cost and complexity of a renaturing operation above all presuppose the avoidance of any additional land take.
In this context, slowing urban growth and renaturing urban environments have become key strategies. They are all the more relevant as biodiversity is declining significantly in urban areas, the effects of climate change (runoff, flooding, urban heat islands, etc.) are intensifying and the health and wellbeing of city‐dwellers are deteriorating. Renaturing makes it possible to adapt cities to climate change and to make them more permeable to wildlife by developing nature‐based solutions. Our cities are full of areas that have been concreted or asphalted over and where nature could return and flourish. The Paris Region, especially the Greater Paris area, is particularly affected by the consequences of urbanisation and density. The purpose of this guide is to propose a method that will help local authorities to target urban areas where renaturing represents a key strategy to restore biodiversity, adapt to climate change and improve people’s health. Based on feedback from respondents in the field, it provides recommendations on how to implement projects in the best possible conditions.
This guide is part of the European project titled Horizon 2020 REGREEN on nature‐based solutions in urban environments. The term “nature‐based solutions” refers to initiatives aimed at the conservation, management and restoration of ecosystems. Their aim is to attenuate climate change (e.g. via carbon capture and storage) and to facilitate adaptation to climate change (e.g. via protection against storms, flooding and landslides). These solutions have proved their effectiveness and can complement or replace the grey infrastructure traditionally used in regional development. The advantage of nature‐based solutions is that they are multi‐functional whereas grey solutions only solve one problem at a time. As well as benefiting climate and biodiversity, they have the advantage of helping to improve the living environment and health of city‐dwellers at lower cost to local authorities. Nature‐based solutions apply to all environments on all scales (farmland, woodland, aquatic and urban environments) and help enhance the resilience of local regions to global change. Renaturing is a way of rolling out nature‐based solutions in areas that have been subject to land take and ground sealing
Sustaining Cities, Naturally Webinar: Environmental aspects session - City Explorer - A toolkit for Ecosystem Services provided by urban restoration
No full textPoorly planned urbanisation can lead to societal challenges as social deprivation, climate change, deteriorating health and increasing pressure on urban nature. Urban ecosystem restoration can contribute to lessen these challenges, e.g. through implementing nature-based solutions (NBS).
This presentation was made as part of the online webinar ‘Sustaining cities, Naturally: Urban ecosystem restoration in Europe, China and Latin America’, which took place as an official side-event of the European Week of Regions and Cities 2022 on 13th and 14th October 2023. The webinar was jointly organised by the projects: INTERLACE, CONEXUS, Regreen and CLEARING HOUSE.
The webinar illustrated how Horizon 2020 projects support international cooperation in knowledge creation and knowledge exchange between local authorities and researchers to promote urban ecosystem restoration in Europe, China and Latin America and brought together cities, regions and local authorities, city network representatives, policy makers, researchers, civil society and experts on nature-based solutions and urban ecosystem restoration from Europe, China and Latin America
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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