SURE Sino-European Workshop on Conservation and Perception of Urban Nature (Draft Program)

 

Time: Monday July 14, 10am – 6pm

Venue: Public Garden Esenler District, Istanbul

 

Organizers:

Teyfik Göksu, Mayor, Esenler District, Istanbul, TURKIYE

Liao Rong (rosyliao@outlook.com), CHINA

Meryem Hayir Kanat (meryemhayir@gmail.com), TURKIYE

Jing Gan (jinggan@tongji.edu.cn), CHINA

Jürgen Breuste (juergen.breuste@plus.ac.at), GERMANY (SURE)

 

Moderator:

Jürgen Breuste, Meryem Hayir Kanat, Jing Gan

 

Schedule:

10:00am – 10:30am Welcome, SURE Organziers, Esenler Team

10:30am – 12:00am 5 Presentations each 15 minutes to the topics:

Conservation and Perception of Urban Nature

Presentation on importance – Breuste, SURE President, Gan, CAUP, Tongji University

Presentation on targets – invited among the participants

Presentation on methods - invited among the participants

Presentation on challenges – invited among the participants

Presentation on cooperation - invited among the participants

 

12:00am – 01:00pm   Lunch

01:00pm – 03:30pm   Open Discussion (2.5h) to the topics: importance, targets, methods and cooperation of Conservation and Perception of Urban Nature, short 5 minutes maximum statements to discuss them are welcome!

Finally, introduction of the Esenler Team to Esenler Garden

03:30pm – 05:30pm   Discussions on site in Esenler Garden (2h)

05:30pm – 06:00pm   Final discission and decision on a Charta for Conservation and Perception of Urban Nature

           

Targeted Outcome:

A Charta as joint declaration on importance, targets, methods, challenges, and cooperation on Conservation and Perception of Urban Nature. Establishing of a network of partners (institutions and practitioners) for constant exchange, consultations, and support of local and regional activities on urban nature conservation.

 

Explanation:

European cities attach great importance to nature and biodiversity. As most European countries started urbanization process earlier, many of them have accumulated rich experience in urban natural environments conservation. At the EU level, a series of policies such as the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 have been issued. In Netherlands, the New Strategy of Randstad put forward the concept of Greenheart Metropolis; In Germany, the Master Plan of Urban Nature (Masterplan Stadtnatur) was proposed. At the city level, Biodiversity Plan for 2025-2030 (Le Plan Biodiversité 2025-2030) of Paris, Mayor’s Biodiversity Strategy Update of London, and Action program of Berlin’s Urban green 2030 (Handlungsprogramm Berliner Stadtgrün 2030) all demonstrate a strong emphasis on urban nature conservation in the city development.

For cites in China, Europe, and even countries all over the world, it is a key task in spatial planning to find better approaches to protect nature in different gradients of urban areas, to enhance urban residents' perception and love for nature, and thus to achieve the coexistence between man and nature in urban developments.

The Sino-European workshop on Conservation and Perception of Urban Nature targets to support and promote the exchanges between China and Europe regarding urban nature. Invited are scientists from European and Chinese cities, local decision makers and gardeners from Istanbul to share their respective research and practices in the fields of urban nature conservation and perception. The workshop will be followed by a dialogue session in the 5^th International SURE Conference discussion the outcome of the workshop in a broader forum. With the Sino-European workshop and dialogue, we are also looking forward to establishing deeper exchanges among the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE), the Research Center of Territorial and Spatial Planning (CSP), Ministry of Natural Resources of PRC and other Sino-European partners such as Tongji University in China, Yildiz Technical University in Turkey, Hildesheim University in Germany, and others.

 

Participants (preliminary)

PRACTICIONERS (local)

Local politicians, experts from Esenler Municipality and the Marmara Municipalities Union

Teyfik Göksu, Mayor, Esenler District

Hasan Taşcı,  Deput Mayor, Esenler District

Tuğba Harputlu, Esenler District Administration

Dila Toprak, Marmara Municipalities

TURKIYE

Arife Karadag, Katip Çelebi University, Izmir

Cigdem Coşkun Hepcan, Ege University, Izmir

Meryem Hayir Kanat, Yidiz Technical University, Istanbul

Semra Atabay, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

Serif Hepcan, Ege University, Izmir

Yilmaz Arı, Bandırma University, Balikesir

 

CHINA

Center for Spatial Planning -Ministry of Natural Resources Beijing  

Rong Liao, Jingjing Hu, and other 1-3 participants (names will be confirmed later)

Tongji University Shanghai, Center for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP)

Jing Gan, Mo Wang, Xiangxu Liu

Beijing Team 

Bin Zhang (Deputy Director of the Haidian Branch of Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources)

Erwei Zhang, Deputy Director of the Rural Planning Institute, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning & Design)

Ruixian Hu (Deputy Director of the Beijing Urban and Rural Construction Leading Group Office)

Ying Shan (Deputy Director of the Haidian Branch of Beijing Municipal Commission of Planning and Natural Resources)

Zhijie Ruan (Rural Planning Institute, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning & Design)

GUIHUA: Frontier of Urban and Rural Planning

Ting Yang or Xiaoxiao Feng
 

The Nature Conservancy（TNC

Jingbin Wu, Shanghai protect project officer

Linlin Yu, Shanghai protect Program Director of TNC

OTHERS

Jürgen Breuste, SURE President, University Hildesheim, Germany

Akbar Rahimi, Tabriz University, Iran

Andrzej Mizgajski, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland

Constantina Alina Hossu, University Bucharest, Romania

Cristian Ioja, SURE Treasurer, University Bucharest, Romania

Dagmar Haase, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Luis Inostroza, Mendel University Brno, Czech Republik

Martin Sauerwein, University Hildesheim, Germany

Martina Artmann, SURE General Secretary, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany

     Sofia Valentin, Dark Matter Labs, London, UK