{"id":927,"date":"2019-08-19T09:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T09:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizon.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T09:51:54","slug":"mobile-forests-could-help-cities-cope-with-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/horizon\/927\/mobile-forests-could-help-cities-cope-with-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile forests could help cities cope with climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-header field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h3 class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Cities across Europe are trialling schemes such as roof gardens and \u2018mobile forests\u2019 to embed more nature into urban areas in an effort to protect their citizens from climate change events like heatwaves, floods and droughts.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Cities are becoming harder places to live in as climate change brings higher temperatures, water scarcity and flooding that not only makes already crowded urban areas less comfortable but also put lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">But it may be possible to protect citizens from these threats by integrating more nature into urban areas, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018We lost sight on how to work with nature,&#8217; said Dr Laura Wendling, an urban scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Using natural systems, however, it is possible to help cities adapt to climate change, she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Nature-based solutions can provide cities with urban cooling, cleaner air, regulated water supplies and flood protection. They include simple approaches like planting new trees and creating parks with a rich collection of biodiversity. But they can also include more complex solutions like covering roofs in vegetation that are efficient at capturing carbon from the atmosphere, pavements that absorb rainwater and mobile forests \u2013 portable trees in pots that can be moved to hotspots to provide shade and clean air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018We know nature-based solutions are really good at helping cities,\u2019 said Dr Wendling. \u2018(But) we don\u2019t have a really good handle on how to best place nature-based solutions to get the greatest benefit.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Dr Wendling is the technical coordinator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/rcn\/210510\/factsheet\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNaLab<\/a>, a project looking to get the information needed to convince more cities to greenlight nature-based solutions. The project is rolling out a selection of pilots in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Tampere in Finland and Genova in Italy, to demonstrate whether it is possible to use nature to improve the cities\u2019 resilience to warmer temperatures or better water management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Among the solutions they will trial are greener cycling paths, which take cyclists along routes with more plant life and can reduce their exposure to air pollution. They will also use algae to clean water by removing pollutants such as nitrates, and ponds engineered to capture excess rainwater to protect cities during storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The project will monitor the impact of the combined solutions in each city and attempt to quantify how much they reduced temperatures, cleaned air and water or prevented flooding. This will be done through a combination of special sensors, weather monitoring, manual data collection and citizens submitting useful information through apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Dr Wendling hopes the project will help cities to pinpoint what types of nature-based solutions they should implement and where they should be. She said it could allow cities that have in the past overlooked \u2018the benefits of interacting with nature\u2019 to find ways of being more resilient to climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018Ultimately we need to have cities that are more liveable, more resilient to environment and social perturbations and nature-based solutions provide us that buffering capacity (to cope),\u2019 said Dr Wendling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">But competition for space in already busy and growing cities could stand in the way of integrating more nature into urban environments. By 2050,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/research\/environment\/index.cfm?pg=nbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">80% of Europe&#8217;s population<\/a> is expected to live in cities, up from 70% today, increasing the demand for land further. It means strong data will be needed to ensure nature has a place in cities rather than less sustainable, but cheaper, infrastructure like densely built apartment blocks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Ultimately we need to have cities that are more liveable, more resilient to environment and social perturbations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">&#8211; Dr Laura Wendling, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><strong>Rain gardens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Many densely populated cities also have historic buildings that can make it difficult to implement nature-based solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018It can be very difficult to change a city, especially if they are old,\u2019 said Ra\u00fal S\u00e1nchez-Franc\u00e9s, an urban greening specialist at CARTIF Technology Centre in Spain. \u2018But we need to consider cities as an ecosystem and the human as part of this ecosystem.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Mr S\u00e1nchez-Franc\u00e9s is the coordinator of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cordis.europa.eu\/project\/rcn\/210521\/factsheet\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">URBAN GreenUP\u00a0<\/a>project, which is developing a methodology to help cities incorporate nature-based solutions into their urban plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Their plan is to use front-runner cities \u2013 Izmir in Turkey, Liverpool in the United Kingdom and Valladolid in Spain \u2013 as demonstration sites to trial over 100 different nature-based solutions, including green roofs that capture carbon, rain gardens in car parks, plants that act as pollutant filters and vertical vegetation that capture rainwater and reduce floods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">The project is due to implement its first solutions in 2020, including using air-cleaning plants on the front of a shopping centre in Valladolid and with an urban mobile forest in Liverpool. They then expect other solutions to be rolled out by 2022. They will then use the evidence they collect to help other cities see how nature can help deal with climate change while improving air quality and water management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">There are five cities\u00a0that\u00a0are interested in replicating the solutions\u00a0\u2013 Chengdu in China and Quy Nhon in Vietnam, Ludwigsburg in Germany, Mantova in Italy and Medellin in Colombia. Having these cities prepared to pick up the successful solutions is a key step because, in some places, integrating nature into the urban environment is seen rather negatively, according to Mr S\u00e1nchez-Franc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Pollinators like bees, wasps and other insects, for example, make a vital contribution to ensuring the health of green spaces in cities. \u2018People sometimes perceive them as pests,\u2019 said Mr S\u00e1nchez-Franc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">He added that the project would be working with communities, and schools in particular, to help citizens see the benefits of nature-based solutions. By demonstrating that they are not just improving air quality, but also human wellbeing and making their cities a cleaner, healthier and safer place to live, he hopes it will be possible to overcome this reluctance in some cities to have more plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">\u2018If you teach people about nature-based solutions then they want nature-based solutions,\u2019 said Mr S\u00e1nchez-Franc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/horizon-magazine.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Horizon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cities across Europe are trialling schemes such as roof gardens and \u2018mobile forests\u2019 to embed more nature into urban areas in an effort to protect their citizens from climate change events like heatwaves, floods and droughts. 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