An Introduction to CLEARING HOUSE Tools: Improve Your City's Nature-Based Solutions

EU funded project CLEARING HOUSE which focused on urban forests to improve urban living in Europe and China will be hosting a final webinar focusing on tools the project has designed for municipalities to enhance NbS initiatives.

Tools that will be presented include:

• Spatial Impact Assessment and Classification tool (SIAC): Models tree cover, assesses street tree density, and evaluates spatial relationships with streets or buildings.
• Spatial Information and Knowledge Hub (SIK-Hub): Facilitates a swift assessment of Urban Forest-NbS and their environmental, ecological, and social settings.
• CLEARING HOUSE Citizen Science: Assists in uncovering feedback loops between Urban Forest-NbS qualities and specific challenges, purposes, uses, or users.

Keynote speech by Manuel Wolff and Sebastian Scheuer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Case studies examples:

• City of Barcelona, presented by Corina Basnou,  Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (CREAF)
• City of Gelsenkirchen and Krakow.