Mai
07
o 15 de maio de 2018, o Campus da Sustentabilidade da Coruña inicia un ciclo de conferencias coa participación de especialistas internacionais en diferentes áreas de coñecemento que teñen relación coa sustentabilidade.
Estas expertas e expertos coordinan centros de investigación e transferencia especializados e proxectos ou programas de investigación de grande envergadura e altamente interdisciplinares, que teñen testado modelos e produtos de transferencia de alto valor engadido para diferentes sectores sociais e empresariais.
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07
Adina Dumitru e Ricardo García Mira, investigadores do grupo Persona-Ambiente da Universidade da Coruña, xunto coa Concelleira de Medio Ambiente da Coruña, María García, participaron o pasado sábado 5 de maio no programa especial da emisora Cuac FM adicado á ciencia como ferramenta para mellorar a calidade de vida das persoas e dos ecosistemas. Este programa enmarcase nas actividades de celebración do Día da Ciencia na Rúa 2018, que acolleu a case 15.000 visitantes o pasado sábado.
Dumitru, Gómez e García Mira aproveitaron a entrevista para presentar o Simposio Europeo “Horizon 2020 european dialogue and clustering action transforming cities, enhancing wellbeing: innovating with nature-based solutions”, que se celebrarán na Coruña el 16-18 maio, dentro do proxecto de innovacion CONNECTING NATURE, coordinado en España polo noso grupo.
Este simposio reunirá a máis de 160 participantes expertos no ámbito da planificación e deseño sostenibles de infraestruturas verdes e solucións baseadas na natureza, achegados dos principais centros de investigación de innovación en Europa e Estados Unidos, así como pequenas e medianas empresas que desenvolven infraestruturas verdes. Co fin de escoitar e debater sobre a aplicación real destas solucións no contexto urbano, participarán tamén unha selección de cidades e rexións europeas e asiáticas que son pioneiras na implementación de solucións baseadas na natureza.
En palabras de Adina Dumitru, o Grupo Persona-Ambiente está a liderar dentro de Connecting Nature o parquete de traballo adicado “á innovación na medición do impacto das infraestruturas verdes nas cidades”, non só en termos de redución de emisións de CO2 ou no enverdecemento das contornas urbanas, máis tamén “en termos de impacto sobre a calidade de vida, o benestar, a saúde das personas ou a cohesión social”, que son abordados dende as aproximacións psicolóxicas e sociais.
A conversa serviu para tamén destacar a contribución que as ciencias sociais, como a psicoloxía ou a educación, xogan á hora de promover políticas sustentábeis dende un punto de vista social e ambiental. Neste senso, os investigadores destacan a importancia da transferencia do coñecemento científico á sociedade e ás políticas públicas: “A ciencia debe estar ao servizo da sociedade e debe axudar a deseñar políticas máis eficaces e con maior impacto sobre a cidadanía” apunta García Mira.
A entrevista pode escoitarse a partir do minuto 27 no Podcast:
https://cuacfm.org/radioco/programmes/dia-da-ciencia-na-rua/6×1/
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04
“A tecnoloxía nunca é neutral ou apolitica e as súas consecuencias son o resultado do momento socioeconómico no que emerxe” .
Está é unha das conclusións do debate científico mantido polos investigadores do Grupo de Investigación Persona-Ambiente da UDC, celebrado o pasado 5 de maio no Laboratorio de Psicoloxía Social da Facultade de Ciencias das Educación.
Neste Seminario Internacional contamos coa participación dos investigadores:
- Dr Tony Craig, the James Hutton Institute, Scotland - Food Cultures and Dietary Choices
- Dr. Mario Pansera, Universidade de Bristol, UK - Institutional Practices for Responsible Research and Innovation
- Ph.D student Veronica Rodriguez - Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico- Building environmental awareness through the experience of walking
Mai
04
ADDRESSING SOCIETAL CHALLENGES THROUGH NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
The “Horizon 2020 European Dialogue and Clustering Action Transforming cities, enhancing wellbeing: innovating with nature-based solutions”, will gather in A Coruña more than 160 experts, cities and SMES to discuss the implementation and impact assessment of the nature-based solutions.
The event will take place in the City of A Coruña (Spain), next May 16-18, 2018 (Venue: Fundación Barrié). This is a joint initiative of two European projects Connecting Nature and the support platform Think Nature and is co-organized by the University of A Coruna (Spain).
The event will focus on 3 main themes:
- Sustainable Urbanization in Cities and Restoration of Degraded Ecosystems. Critically reviewing the lessons from the practical implementation of nature-based solutions in cities and distilling what is best practice in achieving more liveable and resilient cities through nature-based solutions.
- Robust assessment of NBS impacts: creating the evidence base to inform urban policy-making. How the latest developments monitoring, evaluating and data gathering can contribute to the evidence on the comparative advantage of these interventions stronger.
- Enhancing innovation potential through new governance and funding models for NBS. Focusing more on the management side of nature-based solutions, and the role these new approaches may play in upscaling the multiple benefits of this type of interventions.
The event will adopt the highly dynamic and interactive format of a pressure cooker, with guiding questions and specific outcomes prepared for each day aimed at learning and exchange among participants.
The event will bring together representatives from the European Commission and other international institutions dealing with the funding, monitoring evaluation of nature-based solutions. Several European-wide research projects, CONNECTING NATURE, THINK NATURE, Urban GreenUP, GROWGREEN, UNALAB, PHUSICOS, ISOCARP and NAIAD, will showcase their demonstration actions of large-scale design, implementation evaluation of NBS.
Among the participants, we have representatives of the United Nations Environment Program, the European Environment Agency, EU-Brazil – Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication, the European Dredging Association – EuDA, the European Platform of Construction Technology (ECTP), the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, WWF.
Likewise, the ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability network and a selection of European cities, pioneers in the implementation of solutions based on nature, will present their experiences and challenges in the design and financing of ecological infrastructures. Among these are Glasgow, London, Genk, Poznan, Nicosia, Bologna, Ioannina, A Coruña, Malaga, Tampere, Karlova Ves-Bratislava, Regensburg, Stavanger, Tbilisi, Sarajevo-Bosnia & Herzegovina, Prague, Paris region, Vitoria-Gasteiz or Santiago de Compostela (Download the complete description of the sessions here).
Relevant keynotes and speakers are Josefina Enfendaque, DG RDT European Commission; Marcus Collier, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), coordinator of the Connecting Nature project; Andreas Litkopf, European Environment Agency; Kristyna Pelikanova, European Investment Bank, Nick Pearce, director of the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath; David Maddox, The Nature of Cities; Jennifer Senick, Rutgers Center for Green Building, New York; Kate Reilly, IUCN; Julie Barnett, University of Bath, and Clare Twigger-Ross, Collingwood Environmental Planning, Dr. Adina Dumitru, , University of A Coruña, and Professor Ricardo García Mira, University of A Coruña.
The main conclusions from the Horizon 2020European Dialogue and Clustering Action Transforming cities, enhancing wellbeing: innovating with NBS will be elaborated to take the form of a “Roadmap for Research and Action on establishing a reference framework for NBS in addressing social challenges”. This will be made publicly available and will mark a milestone in the streamlining of efforts from both cities, policymakers, academics for accelerating transitions to more vibrant cities and sustainable cities in Europe and beyond.
Also, and based on the main discussions regarding the NBS impact evaluation, a white paper will be produced offering an overview of the current developments in the NBS field, identifying new tools and opportunities for monitoring of NBS and showing the added value of it, all illustrated with examples and aimed at informing the EU urban planning & sustainability policies.
AGENDA
The event agenda is being updated constantly as new speakers join our panels. The latest agenda is available on the link below.
- Download the agenda.
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Detailed information about the content of the sessions on the agenda is available to assist you in planning what sessions to attend. Download this information here.
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Information about Nature- Based Excursions can be found here.
Information on travel to and accommodation in A Coruna can be accessed here
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A Google Map with all of the main venues, airports accommodation can be downloaded here
Technical Secretariat
Isabel Lema Blanco (Researcher – People-Environment Research Group)
Email: isabel.lema@udc.es
Phone:+34 881 011 882
NBE Expo and Pitch Battle
Isobel Fletcher (Senior Project Manager – Horizon Nua)
Email: isobel.fletcher@horizonnua.eu
Phone: +353 1 493 5942
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27
El foro Tecendo Litoral analizará en Palexco las posibilidades urbanas del puerto.
Adina Dumitru, investigadora sénior del People Environment Research Group participa esta semana no “Foro Tecendo Litoral” , en un el debate sobre “A transformación dos peiraos como oportunidade”, en el que también intervendrán el edil de urbanismo Xiao Varela, el arquitecto Jorge Arévalo y el ingeniero Carlos Nárdiz.
TECENDO LITORAL es el proceso que lanza el Ayuntamiento de A Coruña para dar respuesta a las interrogantes que se abren sobre el futuro de los muelles y de la ciudad, apoyado en la participación de los agentes clave en este tema y la voz ciudadana.
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08
El Grupo de Investigación Persoa-Ambiente de la Universidad de A Coruña, celebrará los próximos días organizará los días 16, 17 y 18 de mayo de 2018 el Simposio Europeo “Horizon 2020 European Dialogue and Clustering Action Transforming cities, enhancing wellbeing: innovating with nature-based solutions”. Este simposio está co-organizado por el consorcio Connecting Nature y la plataforma Think Nature y financiado por el programa.
El simposio, que reunirá a 150 participantes expertos en el campo de la planificación sostenible y el diseño de infraestructuras verdes y soluciones basadas en la naturaleza de los principales centros de investigación de innovación de Europa y Estados Unidos, empresas pequeñas, medianas y grandes, y una selección de ciudades y regiones europeas y asiáticas pioneras en la implementación de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza.
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07
El profesor Ricardo García Mira, miembro del Grupo de Investigación Persona-Ambiente de la Universidade da Coruña, ha sido distinguido, por elección, como Miembro Fellow de la sociedad científica International Association of Applied Psychology –IAAP (www.iaapsy.org).
Fundada en 1920, IAAP es la asociación internacional de psicología más antigua del mundo y cuenta actualmente con más de1500 miembros, procedentes de más de 80 países. El nombramiento ha sido acogido con satisfacción en su entorno de la Universidad, por la visibilidad internacional que proporciona para su Grupo de Investigación, que utiliza enfoques de psicología aplicada para el abordaje de problemas de sostenibilidad, innnovación social y cambio climático.
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03
Editorial address, by Ricardo García Mira
Here we are again with a new issue of the bulletin of IAPS, with an eye on our next IAPS Conference in Rome. Organized by Giuseppe Carrus and his team of collaborators, the conference will address as a main theme the “Transitions to sustainability, lifestyles changes and human wellbeing: cultural, environmental and political challenges”. We are eager to revisit “the eternal city” to debate, strengthen our research ties, and make new proposals that contribute to a greater or lesser extent to build a more just, safer and more livable world.
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03
Professor Robert Gifford, University of Victoria, Canada, who has investigated a range of topics within environmental psychology, from climate change and sustainability to architecture and place attachment, has recently edited the publication “Environmental Psychology – Enhancing Our World”. The People-Environment research Group was acknowledged by Robert Gifford as one of the most prominent groups in environmental psychology studies. The publication lists a number of experts in Environmental Psychology from around the world.
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