Nature Based Solutions in Supporting Sustainable Development Goals: Theory and Practice

• Explores the nexus between Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and global SDG, thus leading future research and practice worldwide.
• Presents novel conceptualizations, pathways, applications, evidence-based cases, and experiential assessments
• Offers best practice portfolios for practitioners (city managers, policy-makers, civil servants, environmental engineers) to guide the practices of NbS towards SDG.

Haozhi Pan integrates regional economics and spatial data science to explore how cities can achieve economic growth and digital smartness. His work also focuses on co-governance goals such as carbon neutrality and citizen participation.

Zahra Kalantari has successfully led and carried out interdisciplinary research with focus on understanding of earth and human systems to develop science, technology and innovation solutions to planet’s most pressing environmental challenges associated with the combined effects of changes in climate, land-use and water-use in terrestrial environments.

Carla Ferreira’s main research interests include land degradation and restoration, impacts of anthropogenic activities and climate change on land at different scales, nature-based solutions and ecosystem services, and sustainable land-use planning.

Cong Cong’s research focuses on using data, computing, and informatic tools to inform more effective decision-making. She explores the intersection of computer science and urban planning and uses large-scale urban modeling, and spatial big data analysis as exploratory techniques.