November 2024 Newsletter
Dear RECLAIM Network Members,
RECLAIM CONFERENCE 2025
We are excited to invite you to the 2025 RECLAIM Network Plus Conference on January 30th, 2025! This event promises to be an enriching experience, bringing together thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners to explore innovative solutions and collaborative Green Blue Grey Infrastructure strategies.
For more details and to sign up to this event click here
RECLAIM GBI Photography
Competition Results
Under Represented Communities
Image credit: “A small appropriated community garden in a favela in Diadema, periphery of São Paulo” By Laurenz Garbo, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Community gardening (São Paulo, Brazil) Laurenz Garbo (2022)
A small appropriated community garden in a favela in Diadema, in the periphery of São Paulo.
To view the winners and runners up photos click here
To view our RECLAIM Wikimedia Commons page where you can view more as well as add your own GBI photos click here
RECLAIM Funded Project Video
Demonstrating Multi-benefits of GI to Schools Through Collaborative Approach
This short animation funded by the RECLAIM Network Plus, highlights a project undertaken by the University of Surrey where an aesthetically-pleasing nature-based green infrastructure was constructed along the road-facing perimeter of the school.
RECLAIM Workshop Blog
On October 21, 2024, a transformative workshop focused on co-designing energy-positive neighbourhoods Jointly organized by London South Bank University (LSBU), University of Surrey, Loughborough University, University of Nottingham, the Chetwynd Community Interest Company (CIC) funded by the RECLAIM Network Plus, the event brought together diverse stakeholders to tackle sustainability challenges collaboratively.
For the full blog on this workshop click here
RECLAIM Knowledge Exchange Visit
Dr Karina Corada-Perez (Sustainability Research Institute at UEL) shares her recent experiences during her RECLAIM funded secondment with GCARE at the University of Surrey which expanded her understanding of Green-Blue-Grey Infrastructures as well as advanced their research and improved their contributions to the field of sustainable urban development.
For a blog which also summarises Karina’s visit click here
Webinar #31 - Influence of Vegetation on the CO2 Concentration & Legacy of inequality in tree canopy cover
We are pleased to announce Webinar #31 of the RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series, in cooperation with UGPN on 4th December 2024 - 12:30-13:30 BST.
The RECLAIM Network Webinar Series consists of monthly one-hour online sessions. Each webinar has 2 speakers, each speaking for 20 minutes, with time for a Q&A afterwards. All the webinars are recorded to make it available for viewing on demand.
Further details of this event can be found here
Webinar #30 - Safer Parks-Improving Access for Women & Girls & Urban Park Environments and Residents
Thank you to everyone who attended Webinar #30. If you missed the webinar, you can watch the recording via the link below.
To view previous webinars in the series click here.
RECLAIM PI wins
‘Air Quality’s Noble Prize’
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has recognised our very own RECLAIM Network PI Professor Prashant Kumar with the prestigious Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award – an honour widely considered to be the 'Nobel Prize' in air quality achievement.
For more on this story click here
Add NEW Resources
An opportunity for you to submit your work relating to green and blue infrastructure via the new resource page on the RECLAIM website so others can read & benefit from your research.
Please submit your published papers, reports, policy briefs, tools and guidance documents here
RECLAIM Network Plus Membership
We currently have 645 members from a wide variety of sectors right across the globe, see our membership’s areas of interest below (see graph).
Below is the sign up link for the new membership form. Please share among your network, and especially encourage your contacts in city decision-making and local government to join.
Website
Our website lists all network activities. To view the RECLAIM Network Plus website click here
You Tube
Our You Tube channel provides recordings of RECLAIM Network events including the webinar series. To view click here
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Our X page currently has 568 followers. You can follow us for the latest RECLAIM Network Plus updates here
Our LinkedIn page currently has 1,016 followers. If you are on LinkedIn, you can follow us for the latest RECLAIM Network Plus updates here
What’s next?
More details about our 2025 RECLAIM Conference
Further Workshop and Knowledge Exchange Visit Opportunities
Update on our GBGI Database
PLUS lots more.