Webinar #27 - Pollution from highway runoff & Rethinking the role of Green Infrastructure in Asia
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar #27
The twenty-seventh webinar of the 'Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning Cities from Vulnerable Spaces to Healthy Places for People' took place on Wednesday, 7th August 2024. The webinar was chaired by RECLAIM co-investigator, Professor Prashant Kumar from the University of Surrey. This webinar included two speakers: Jo Bradley, Director of Operations at Stormwater Shepherds and Professor Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester. Jo Bradley delivered a talk on "Pollution from highway runoff" and Professor Ian Mell on "History, design and function - rethinking the role of Green Infrastructure in complex urban environments in Asia".
After the talk a Q&A session was chaired by Prof Prashant Kumar from the University of Surrey.
Short bio of speakers:
• Jo Bradley has worked on many aspects of water management during her 30-year career in the UK. She has worked in a clean-water laboratory, been a Trade Effluent Officer, overseen Drought Plan development and taken endless sewage samples. But her passion lies in pollution prevention & control and she was lead author on some of the Environment Agency’s Pollution Prevention Guidance notes, which were widely respected and applied. She focussed on topics including oil/water separator design & application, private sewage treatment systems and retail petrol filling stations.
• Ian Mell is Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester. His teaching and research focusses on comparative analysis of the development of Green Infrastructure and its economic, socio-cultural and economic value to society, and includes discussions of temporality, spatial differences and disciplinary variation in approach. Ian has extensive experience of working in and with local and national government to develop planning policy and urban greening projects most notably the National Green Infrastructure Standard (Defra/Natural England, 2023). He is the author of Global Green Infrastructure (2016, Routledge) and the upcoming Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities (2024, Routledge).
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