11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT) Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Planning Science and Practice

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11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT)

Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Planning Science and Practice

University of Catania, 9-11 September 2020, Catania (Italy)

The 11th Edition of the International Conference on “Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning” will focus on how to integrate Nature-Based Solutions in urban and regional planning processes and science. The Conference will be hosted in 2020 by the University of Catania.

There is growing evidence that Nature Based Solutions (NBS) are strategic instruments to restore or improve the functionality of urban ecosystems toward more liveable, healthier and resilient cities. Despite their many advantages, NBS are not widely implemented because the evidence of their effectiveness is not yet sufficiently diffused among policy makers, city-planners and residents and because NBS are often overlooked due to the complexity of their design and lack of normative instruments supporting planning choices.

In order to permanently incorporate NBS into planning instruments, more research and international discussion is required to consolidate the fragmented evidence that NBS can significantly improve the overall degree of environmental sustainability of contemporary cities.

INPUT2020 will gather international scholars in the field of planning, civil engineering and architecture, ecology and social science, to build and consolidate the knowledge and evidence on NBS and to help an efficient implementation and replication of solutions.

Furthermore, INPUT 2020 will also present the state of art of modelling approaches and innovations employed in urban and territorial planning, with a trans-disciplinary, boundary-less character to face the complexity of today socio-ecological systems and following a practice-oriented approach aimed to problem solving.

INPUT is a group of Italian academic researchers working in many fields related to the exploitation of informatics and innovation in urban and regional planning. See the Input Section for further information.

INPUT2020 is organized by LAPTA, a research laboratory of Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture.