Please to be hosting a World Café session at ESP Europe 2026 on advancing citizen participation in social-ecological scenario planning 🫂🏞️ 👉Session overview: cdn.aanmelderusercontent.nl/i/doc/88995799… 📭Accepting abstracts to contribute to part 1: scene setting

Please to be hosting a World Café session at ESP Europe 2026 on advancing citizen participation in social-ecological scenario planning 🫂🏞️ 👉Session overview: cdn.aanmelderusercontent.nl/i/doc/88995799… 📭Accepting abstracts to contribute to part 1: scene setting

Blackheath and Greenwich looking more like a Savanna than a Common and Park on this hot London day! But #GreenInfrastructure providing "more than human" urban cooling benefits and interesting to see drought resistance of non-cut vs cut!

A dark day indeed... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Excited to be starting the new year in a #NewJob working on #UrbaReLeaf based at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and across Europe to provide innovative and participatory approaches to create liveable, and resilient cities through urban greening which empower citizens

"Other countries should take note that it is possible to put a price on agriculture’s climate impact without widespread uproar" - really important blog from the Danish Society for Nature Conservation on Denmark's tripartite (govt, ag & NGOs) agreement on climate & farming. shorturl.at/OtxbN 1/

#TNOCEssay: Re-envisioning the Green Belt for Biodiversity, Recreational Access, and Climate Resilience By Lincoln Garland, Bath Read more and Join the conversation 👉 www.thenatureofcities.com/2024/12/09/r... #UrbanResilience #Biodiversity #GreenBelt

New blog : changing the #nature of Government rhetoric and policy about nature. mainstreaminggreeninfrastructure.com/blog/posts.p...

A fantastic day yesterday at my PhD graduation and a fitting end to my time at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the ONE Planet DTP I feel increasingly lucky to have had @profajscott.bsky.social by my side as a truly superb supervisor and mentor

📢📜 My 5th PhD paper has been published in #LandscapeandUrbanPlanning w/ @profajscott.bsky.social Claire Walsh Drawing on stakeholder co-developed exploratory scenarios our timely research asks what English #GreenBelt landscapes might look like in the future? doi.org/10.1016/j.la... ...🧵(1/10)

📢📜 My 5th PhD paper has been published in #LandscapeandUrbanPlanning w/ @profajscott.bsky.social Claire Walsh Drawing on stakeholder co-developed exploratory scenarios our timely research asks what English #GreenBelt landscapes might look like in the future? doi.org/10.1016/j.la... ...🧵(1/10)

Delighted 4 @drmattkirby.bsky.social that his 5th peer review paper on codeveloping exploratory scenarios 4 #greenbelt futures is now on line (open access). Pleased to have supported this paper both in leading one of the workshops and its subsequent write up. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Popping this 2016 vintage to celebrate my final (probably...) PhD paper being accepted in Landscape and Urban Planning

Great to see @profajscott.bsky.social giving evidence at the Environmental Audit Committee inquiryon Environmental sustainability and housing growth. Making the case for breaking down silos, strategic planning and championing nature in planning, including Green Belts benefits. Thanks for the plug!

Denmark's "green tripartite agreement" is a world first to introduce a climate tax on livestock emissions alongside N reduction. In one of Europe's most nature depleted countries the impetus will now be a conversion of agriculture to nature - supported cross-sector www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Denmark's "green tripartite agreement" is a world first to introduce a climate tax on livestock emissions alongside N reduction. In one of Europe's most nature depleted countries the impetus will now be a conversion of agriculture to nature - supported cross-sector www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...

Env audit select committee have published details of their first inquiry under new government on how housing, nature and climate challenges can be tackled collectively. Delighted to give evidence at the first oral hearing this Wednesday committees.parliament.uk/committee/62...

My publications on #EcosystemServices #Planning #Multifunctionality #PeriUrbanLandscapes #GreenBelts #MainstreamingNature can be found here: scholar.google.com/citations?us... Always interested in collaborations and research opportunities

Moving over to @bsky.app what better first tweet than to share my #PhD thesis on #Multifunctional #GreenBelts is now online: researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/studentTh... At a time when England's Green Belt Policy is being reshaped, my thesis explores their wider potential for people & nature