NATURE’S NARRATORS
The 2015-2016
John H. Ostrom Program Series
Courtesy of TNC
CONSERVATION
FOR CITIES:
What Does Nature Have to Offer
Cities during the Coming Massive
Urbanization
With Rob McDonald
Thursday, October 15, at 5:30 pm
Free Admission • Book signing to follow
Y
Peabody Museum
of Natural History
Homo sapiens are now primarily an urban species. By
2050, the world’s urban population will swell by almost
3 billion. All this growth will require new
infrastructure, as will the challenge of adapting
cities to climate change. Ecologists, urban
planners, economists, and landscape architects
are increasingly asked to consider the role
that green infrastructure - the natural habitat,
inside or outside the city’s walls that supplies
crucial benefits to urban residents - can play in
meeting these challenges. Guidance on how to
plan and execute projects to protect or restore
natural infrastructure is often hard to come by.
In this talk, Rob McDonald presents stories of
cities around the world that have overcome these
challenges, and reviews the new science that is letting city
planners and conservationists begin to address these needs.
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