From Local to Global ‒ multisectoral policy making can save people from extreme heat
Awareness raising, preparedness, and re-design are three important pillars of developing heat-resilient cities. Working across sectors and collaborating between cities and national governments are key for policy work on urban heat. Eleni Myrivili shares local and global perspectives from her work as Chief Heat Officer for the city of Athens and Global Chief Heat Officer at the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN Habitat). This is our fourth article in the Urban Heat series.
SLU Urban Futures is searching for a new Hub Coordinator
We are looking for a new hub coordinator at Ultuna Campus starting earliest in December 2024. The assignment expects 30 % working time and a location at SLU Ultuna and will be running for one year with possibilities for extension. Welcome with your application no later than 19 Nov! Read more about the vacancy
Håkan is passionate for good food in the cities of the future
Håkan Jönsson is the new coordinator for Food and Cities, an initiative to develop and communicate research and education at the intersection of food and city at SLU. "There will be major research efforts in this field in the future, and SLU needs to be prepared and coordinated," says Håkan. Read the article Läs artikeln på svenska
The One Health Breakfast Club
Our aim with The One Health Breakfast Club is to stimulate interdisciplinary and cross-faculty collaborations. We meet and greet on a regular basis, to hopefully gain some new insights and inspiration while having breakfast together.
Join us next time when
Hussein Khalil from theDepartment of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, talks about Participatory Research and One Health: Uplifting urban slums in Brazil. The last sign-up day is 26 November!
Urban Forests: Adaptive and participatory governance in Urban Green Spaces
Welcome to our third Urban Forests webinar of the semester. This time, we welcome Pedro Obregon, Ph. D. student at the Department of Forest Economics at SLU. In this talk, Pedro will explore the influence of adaptive and participatory governance (involvement of multiple actors in a structured process) on the management of urban green spaces. The study focuses on Umeå, a city with a big potential for urban green space expansion.
Presenting the winners of the student design competition
Malin Almgren and Emma Nygren won the first prize in SLU Urban Futures’ student design competition for their contribution Becoming Röbäcksdalen. ‘A well-executed work with many dimensions in time and space,’ is the jury's motivation. Read the article
Ett urval av urbana och tvärvetenskapliga SLU-nyheter
