Nature-Based Solutions: Co-Creating for Sustainable Urban Futures

➡️ About the workshop:

This session focuses on Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), which encompass actions aimed at protecting, managing, and restoring natural or modified ecosystems. These solutions provide benefits to both human well-being and biodiversity. Examples include the creation of green and blue spaces, coastal protection and management, and stream or river restoration. Through an interactive workshop utilizing a geodesign game developed for the SCORE Project, participants will collaboratively explore how to co-create local urban solutions. Working together, they will propose, discuss, and vote on solutions tailored to specific local contexts.

➡️ About the game:

 ➡️ The hosts:

Elena Marie Enseñado currently works as a specialist in Nature-based Climate Change Adaptation planning. Her expertise includes climate change and environmental planning, learning for socio-technical transitions and social-ecological resilience, ecosystem services and nature-based solutions, and participatory tools and methods.

At IHS, Elena is involved in advisory, research, education, and capacity-building activities. She has more than 15 years of experience in project development, management, monitoring, and evaluation.

Charmae Pyl Wissink-Nercua is part of the Urban Socio-Spatial Development Department at IHS. Her expertise is in urban land and housing development, focusing on governance, sustainability, and resilience. Charmae has more than 15 years of professional experience in the field. She is currently working on the themes of nature-based solutions, sustainable urban development, land and housing rights, climate adaptation planning, climate resilience, urban living labs, stakeholders’ engagement and co-design and co-creation processes.

At IHS, Charmae is involved in education, research, advisory and capacity-building activities. She coordinates the Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) course and is actively engaged in IHS’ project acquisitions, and is leading various projects such as international tailormade trainings and refresher courses in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Laura Quadros Aniche is an Urban Sustainability and Climate Change specialist. She works on education, advisory, and research on urban sustainability and governance. Her expertise focuses on nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, climate adaptation and resilience, sustainability transitions, urban living labs, co-creation, stakeholder engagement, and participatory governance.

She teaches, mentors, and supervises students of the MSc in Urban Management and Development. She is part of the Urban Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change master track.