AIPH Green City Briefing: Planting for managing urban heat

Strategic planting in cities can reduce temperatures and improve air quality.

This webinar briefing will focus on the importance and opportunities to plant trees and plants in urban areas to help mitigate the urban heat island effect. Hear from experts on the use of plants to create more sustainable and resilient cities.

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Programme

• Welcome by MC Sebastien Turbot, Director, Content Development, Earthna, Qatar.
• Presentation by Debbie Bartlett, Professor of Environmental Conservation at the University of Greenwich
• Presentation by Prof. David Simon, Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London
• Q&A
• Briefing closes

MC: Sebastien Turbot

Sebastien guides governments, cities, businesses, and civil society in creating content and community-driven platforms that turn ideas into action. In his Earthna role, he develops the center’s overarching editorial approach and defines advocacy campaigns, with his work being focused on building collaborative learning and living ecosystems that help communities develop the knowledge, skills and talents they need in order to inject sustainability into current and future societies. He is also an advisor and speaker.

Sebastien is a former Director and Curator at the NewCities Foundation and WISE, Qatar Foundation’s global education initiative. He was part of the founding team of TEDx Paris and, during his time in the French capital, was a lecturer at Sciences Po’s Paris, a prestigious French institution for higher learning.

Debbie Bartlett

Debbie Bartlett is a Chartered Landscape Architect (Management Division), Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Ecology and Environmental Management and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  Her current role is as Professor of Environmental Conservation at the University of Greenwich, and she has over 35 years’ experience combining local government, consultancy, teaching, and research. She is particularly interested in landscape scale management, including the social and economic factors affecting resilience to environmental/climate change.

Prof. David Simon

Prof. David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was Director of Mistra Urban Futures from 2014 to 2019. Prof. Simon undertakes a full range of research, teaching and administration, as well as external societal engagement and impact work including expert advisory and consultancy activities. His research encompasses principally the interface between development and the environment, in the context of sustainability and global environmental/climate change, with particular reference to urban, peri-urban and regional change. He is author of ‘Sustainable Human Settlements within the Global Urban Agenda’ that was launched to coincide with the start of COP 28 in Dubai.