Meeting 2: Urban Natural Environment - Values, Threats, Opportunities

The meeting aims to give a broad understanding and insights into significant environmental aspects related to how the built environment affect the local natural environment and vice versa how the local natural environment in a city contribute to increased well-being of its inhabitants.

Compulsory literature to read in advance:

Bolund & Hunhammar 1999

Beatley 2000

Pages 145-148 (chapter 19) in Wheeler & Beatley (Eds.) (2009) The Sustainable Urban Development Reader, 2nd Edition. Routledge, Oxon.

Optional further reading:

Halweil & Nierenberg 2007