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Four urban ecologies: a working typology and alternative conceptual synthesis (individual event outside of series)

Prof. Matthew Gandy
University of Cambridge (UK)

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Urban ecology has evolved into a vast field of work that extends across multiple disciplinary domains spanning the bio-physical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. In this presentation I will outline a working typology for urban ecology that highlights four analytical vantage points: systems-based approaches; observational paradigms; urban political ecology; and pluriversal ecologies. I will outline a conceptual synthesis that offers an alternative to the normative and epistemological dominance of systems-based approaches.

Our speaker:

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and an award-winning documentary film maker. His books include Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (MIT Press, 2014), Moth (Reaktion, 2016), and Natura urbana: ecological constellations in urban space (MIT Press, 2022).

Input from the IOER: More biodiversity in cities and municipalities - a guide for creating municipal biodiversity strategies | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wende

Podium with 4 orange armchairs under a vault
Photo: A.-M. Schielicke/IOER-Media

The IOER Forum is an event format organised by the IOER to promote dialogue and exchange with society. Every year, in a spring and an autumn series, we dedicate ourselves to current topics of sustainable development and transformation of neighbourhoods, cities and regions with different event formats. Guests from Germany and abroad include actors from research, public administration, companies, planning practice, politics, business, associations and civil society. The IOER Forum is open to all interested parties. Participation is free of charge, registration is not required. To enable as many people as possible to attend our events, most of them will be broadcast live.

15. April
2pm (CEST)
Language: English
Online

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Anna-Maria Schielicke
a.schielickeioer@ioer.de

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Leibniz Gemeinschaft
[Translate to English:] Dresden concept
TOTAL E-QUALITY

The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development is jointly funded by the federal government and the federal states.

FS Sachsen

This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.