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Insights from Dordrecht’s city ecologist on incorporating biodiversity into urban regeneration and climate adaptation.

Insights from Dordrecht’s city ecologist on incorporating biodiversity into urban regeneration and climate adaptation.

Insights from Dordrecht’s city ecologist on incorporating biodiversity into urban regeneration and climate adaptation.

Ellen Kelder leads the Blue Green City team for the City of Dordrecht. In this interview she shares some best practices for climate adaptation based on the city’s extensive experience with initiatives like LIFE CRITICAL.

LIFE CRITICAL marked a significant milestone with the launch of its first Citizen Science Festival in Dordrecht this September. The event, strategically aligned with the city’s Neighbourhood Day, witnessed enthusiastic participation from a range of community members.

Berry Gersonius is a policy advisor to the City of Dordrecht for their Blue Green City initiative. In this interview he spotlights the importance of climate adaptation and the role replication and knowledge sharing play in these initiatives.

Sandra de Vries, founder of PULSAQUA, is an expert in citizen science for sustainability, focusing her efforts on advancing the SDGs together with local communities. As a contributor to LIFE CRITICAL, in this interview she shares the importance of citizen science and the role it plays in climate adaptation initiatives.

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In the “How to Reach the Hard to Reach” podcast series by The PSC, our project leader Dr. Özlem Safranti-Bozkurt and innovation consultant Dana van der Zee discuss the tremendous value citizen science adds to climate adaptation and the importance of open source technology in making this work accessible to all.

Pilot projects such as LIFE Critical demonstrate that though LCS has drawbacks, with the right approach they can add significant value to a measurement campaign and help collect actionable insights.

Anyone can be a citizen scientist. So how do we get a community excited about climate adaptation?

“When addressing air pollution, we also address a critical and easy-to-implement solution to climate change,” UN Environment climate change specialist Niklas Hagelberg.