Thirty-second RECLAIM Webinar - UGPN Partnership - Child led urban greening & Environmental monitoring of Nature-based Solutions

•    Charlotte Glazier is a change agent, programme manager and chartered landscape architect, with local authority background.  After local climate emergency declarations in 2019 she went on to pioneer two of the most innovative urban greening, climate adaptation programmes, namely 'Islington Greener Together' and 'Green Finance for Islington Pocket Park Framework' NEIRF which researched alternative finance and new stewardship models. Her ambition to scale up urban climate adaptation continues.  On her own terms, she pledged to ignite a UK child led urban greening movement on 7th October 2024 on United Nations' World Habitat Day and pilots are now live.

•    Daniel is an Assistant Professor in Nature-based Solutions based at the Heriot-Watt University and a Research Associate in Nature-based Solutions at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Prior to working at Heriot-Watt University, Daniel was based at the National Green Infrastructure Facility at Newcastle University, UK working as a PDRA on the EPSRC Urban Green DaMS (Design and Modelling of SuDS) project. In this seminar, Daniel will discuss findings from a series of experimental field-based testbeds to quantify and assess the performance and functionality of green infrastructure, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and Nature-based Systems from a hydrological, flood risk management perspective, and outline plans for the new Green Slope Facility testbed at Heriot-Watt University.