The sixth session of the RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series took place on 2nd November 2022.
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
Dr Priyanka Jamwal
Fellow, ATREE
Title of the talk: “Nature-based solutions for rural and urban landscapes - Case studies from India”
Biography
Priyanka Jamwal is a doctorate in Environmental Engineering and Management. She works at the interface of science and policy with a focus on water quality issues. Her work focuses on the identification of contaminant sources in surface water bodies, modelling the fate and transport of contaminants in urban hydrological systems and assessing the risk to human health due to exposure to contaminants. She is also interested in developing design principles for the deployment and scaling up of nature-based solutions.
Dr Tse-Hui Teh
Lecturer, UCL
Title of the talk: “Co-designing a community garden as blue-green infrastructure”
Biography
Dr Tse-Hui Teh is a lecturer of urban design and planning in the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She uses a collective coevolution of actant trajectories (CCAT) framework to understand how water and sanitation infrastructures can become sustainable. She also uses CCAT to create code sign games that enable public participation to change urban infrastructure. Her current projects look at urban rice and cress farming in Antananarivo, water reuse in Sydney and London, water quality in the UK and Wales, and vacuum flush toilets in London.
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