Urban Nature

Kes McCormick is a Professor of Business Development and Sustainable Innovation in the Department of People and Society at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He also holds a position at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. With a background in political science and environmental science, he engages in a combination of research, education, and collaboration activities on sustainability, business, innovation, and governance, including A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities (Edward Elgar, 2023) He is deeply engaged in online and in-person education, capacity building, and lifelong learning, including through Massive Open Online Courses. Bernadett Kiss is a Lecturer and Researcher at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. For the past twenty years she has been working in the field of sustainable urban development and climate change, with special focus on urban governance, energy efficiency in the built fabric, policy and technology change, innovation systems, learning, and nature-based solutions. Bernadett's recent interest lies in interdisciplinary education, the integration of research and education, and the application of knowledge co-creation through urban stakeholders' engagement. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is an Associate Professor and Director of PhD Education at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. She has over fifteen years of experience in multicultural, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary teams. She works in the areas of sustainability, urban governance, innovation, and sustainable consumption. Her research focuses on strategies for sustainability solutions in new economies (for example the bioeconomy, the sharing economy, and the circular economy) and sustainable urban transformation (for example nature-based solutions in cities and urban living labs). Yuliya works to promote education for sustainability at all levels: graduate, undergraduate, and professional. Harriet Bulkeley holds joint appointments at Durham University and Utrecht University. Her research focuses on environmental governance and the politics of climate change, nature, and sustainable cities, including An Urban Politics of Climate Change (Routledge, 2015) and Accomplishing Climate Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She was awarded the King Carl XVI Gustaf's Professorship in Environmental Science in 2014 and the Royal Geographical Society Back Award in 2018 in recognition of the policy impact of her work on climate change. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019 and appointed to the Scientific Council of the European Research Council in 2023. McKenna Davis is a Senior Fellow at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, Germany, and coordinates the Institute's activities on nature-based solutions. Her work looks at the assessment of green infrastructure and nature-based solutions (NBS) and their governance frameworks, with a focus on linkages to human health and well-being, sustainable urban development, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction.¿ She has published numerous papers and book chapters and led the development of the Urban Governance Atlas (https://interlace-hub.com/urban-governance-atlas), showcasing more than 250 global policy instruments supporting NBS. She is an expert in the Biodiversa BiodivClim Knowledge Hub on the 'Potential of NBS for mitigating and adapting to climate change'. Rob Raven is an interdisciplinary scholar, professor of sustainability transitions, and deputy director (research) at Monash Sustainable Development Institute. His current research agenda is focused on the analysis of transformative change in urban contexts such as smart, sustainable, and net-zero cities. In 2022, Rob was included in Elsevier's top 2% of the most influential researchers in the w...