EnRoute Conference: Biodiver-City: Enhancing urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to make cities more resilient
Conference in collaboration with the Bulgarian presidency of the EU, the European Green Week and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 24 April 2018.
Plenary session 1: The importance of urban biodiversity for nature and people
- Biodiversity in cities (Prof. Axel Hochkirch, University of Trier, Germany)
- Functional biodiversity and urban ecosystem services (Prof. Fausto Manes, Prof. Carlo Blasi, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
- Green infrastructure and biodiversity in Bulgarian cities (Dr. Stoyan Nedkov, BAS, Bulgaria)
Plenary session 2: Policies to enhance biodiversity in cities
- Policies to enhance biodiversity in cities (Fernando Louro Alves, Lisbon City Council)
- Forest ecosystem services (Denitsa Pandeva (director), Executive Forest Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry)
- Reconnecting cities with nature (Chantal van Ham, IUCN, European Regional Office)
- EU policy initiatives to integrate biodiversity and ecosystem services into policy making (Rayka Hauser, European Commission)
Parallel session 1: Urban ecosystem services and the role of urban biodiversity
- Session keynote: Gene flows in and through cities: relevance for the management of urban biodiversity (Joscha Beninde - University of Trier)
- Antwerp Greentool: finding priority locations to improve urban biodiversity and ecosystem services (Steven Broekx, Stijn Vranckx, Inge Liekens, Iris Gommers, Griet Lambrechts - VITO and City of Antwerp)
- Revealing the spatial distribution of ecosystem services in cities based on the functional traits of urban trees (Chiara Cortinovis, Claudia Alzetta, F. Agostini, A. Miola, Davide Geneletti – University of Trento)
- Functional biodiversity and air pollution removal potential of urban Green Infrastructure in 5 municipalities of the Latium Region (Alessandro Sebastiani, Federica Marando, Giulia Capotorti, Lina Fusaro, Elisabetta Salvatori, Carlo Blasi, Fausto Manes – La Sapienza University)
Parallel Session 2: Citizens and urban biodiversity
- Understanding the science-policy interface in planning urban green infrastructure projects (Susann Günther, Grazia Zulian, Joachim Maes, Martijn Thijssen – JRC)
- Public perception of invasive alien species as a threat to urban biodiversity (Rumen Tomov, Teodora Trichkova (University of Forestry)
- Nature can do more work in our habitats (Dirk van Toledo - Nature for Life Foundation)
- Citizens science in Rotterdam (Niels De Zwarte – Bureau Stadsnatuur)
Parallel Session 3: Green infrastructure and urban biodiversity
- Ecosystem condition and services provided by urban Green Infrastructure of Karlovo within the local policy context (Miglena Zhiyanski, Stoyan Nedkov, Rositsa Yaneva – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
- Greenway network proposal in Limassol, Cyprus (Nerantzia Tzortzi-Julia Georgi, Alexis Ioannou - Neapolis University of Pafos)
- Critical biodiversity features for urban GI planning: some evidence on the plant’s side (Giulia Capotorti, Riccardo Copiz, Laura Zavattero, Federica Marando, Alessandro Sebastiani, Fausto Manes, Carlo Blasi – La Sapienza University)
- Monitoring of the urban green areas in the master plan of Sofia. Initial findings and new concepts for innovations in the framework instrument (Nikolay Naydenov, Angel Burov, Dimitar Trifonov - University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy)
- Urban tree management in Padova (Claudia Alzetta – City of Padova)