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Event date 14 Jun '22 - 1 Jul '23
Event location https://cap-net.org/circularcities/
Responsible organisation

A circular city is a city that uses its resources (food, water, energy, materials, land) several times, in cycles or cascades, turning the city into a productive urban space in order to minimise resource imports and at the same time waste production. A circular city manages to do so, by creating regenerative green urban spaces, sustainable buildings and prospering communities.

This course provides knowledge on how to create such cities by using nature-based solutions (nbs). It comprises knowledge on resources flows and management of these flows in cities, appropriate nature- based solutions for managing resources, implementation aspects and number of worked examples to help understanding this complex domain.

What you will learn:

  • Understand resources flows in cities: water, nutrients, energy, materials, land.
  • Understand the basic design requirements for NBS and roles of different actors involved in their implementation
  • Demonstrate why and how different disciplines need to work together for implementing NBS (transdisciplinary approach; thinking across boundaries).