This webinar included two speakers:
Jo Bradley, Director of Operations at Stormwater Shepherds: Pollution from highway runoff
Professor Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester: History, design and function - rethinking the role of Green Infrastructure in complex urban environments in Asia
Webinars will share best-practice and facilitate knowledge exchange between practitioners, researchers, policymakers, businesses, environmental groups, charities and individuals interested in implementation of green-blue-grey infrastructure for making our vulnerable living spaces more healthy, sustainable and resilient.
Speakers
Jo Bradley
Director of Operations, Stormwater Shepherds
Title of the talk:
“Pollution from highway runoff”
Biography :
Jo Bradley has worked on many aspects of water management during her 30-year career in the UK. She has worked in a clean-water laboratory, been a Trade Effluent Officer, overseen Drought Plan development and taken endless sewage samples. But her passion lies in pollution prevention & control and she was lead author on some of the Environment Agency’s Pollution Prevention Guidance notes, which were widely respected and applied. She focussed on topics including oil/water separator design & application, private sewage treatment systems and retail petrol filling stations.
Ian Mell
Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester
Title of the talk: “History, design and function - rethinking the role of Green Infrastructure in complex urban environments in Asia”
Biography:
Ian Mell is Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester. His teaching and research focusses on comparative analysis of the development of Green Infrastructure and its economic, socio-cultural and economic value to society, and includes discussions of temporality, spatial differences and disciplinary variation in approach. Ian has extensive experience of working in and with local and national government to develop planning policy and urban greening projects most notably the National Green Infrastructure Standard (Defra/Natural England, 2023). He is the author of Global Green Infrastructure (2016, Routledge) and the upcoming Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities (2024, Routledge)..
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