Twenty-third RECLAIM webinar - What has GBGI done for us & the valuation and impacts of urban GBGI

Dr Louise Firth is a marine ecologist and lecturer at University College Cork. She is a globally-recognized expert on applying nature-based solutions to artificial structures in the marine environment. Her research focuses on understanding the ecology of the marine built environment and she is particularly interested in developing novel ways of making space for nature in human-dominated environments.

Tom Wild is based in the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Sheffield where he is the Principal Investigator for the Horizon 2020 project Conexus (www.conexusnbs.com). Tom is an ecologist, specialising in aquatic and riparian ecosystems, and catchment management practices. His research interests centre around the conditions, policies and practices that enable or hinder the rehabilitation and regeneration of impacted (and semi-natural) ecosystems. Much of his work has been concerned with values and the economic valuation of blue-green infrastructure and nature-based solutions, such as sustainable urban drainage (SUDS), deculverting and river restoration.