[LTER-All-lter] Announcing the NATURA network of networks

[Shen Yu]

Congratulations to Nancy and the team. Cheers. Shen

At2019-11-19 02:35:44，Marty Downsdowns at nceas.ucsb.eduwrote:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,




We are excited to announce that the NATURA project (Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene) has been funded by the US National Science Foundation for US$2,000,000 for five years. NATURA is designed to be an international network of networks that exchange and synthesize knowledge, data, and solutions among researchers and practitioners on nature-based solutions to advance urban resilience. 




LTER is part of the founding network of networks. The Natura-net.orgwebsite provides a link to the funded proposal. The Natura Coordinating Committee is eager to discuss how we can together accomplish our proposed (and any additional new) goals for knowledge sharing, training, and synthesis by bringing our (and potentially other) networks together.




To get started, please respond to this brief survey that will help us begin to articulate the vision and goals for NATURA more concretely. The survey requests information about you and your network, and includes five important questions that we will analyze and use as a short- and long-term horizon scanning exercise. It is very important that we get a diverse response to this survey, so please share it widely with your networks. Natura's next steps will be to organize a meeting of the Coordinating Committee*, the core 26 networks, and an in-person NATURA kick-off meeting (likely April/May 2020).




The primary NSF funding includes support for three in-person All Hands Meetings (2020, 2022, 2024) for network-wide knowledge synthesis and exchange, funding for early career scholars, practitioners, and students to spend 5-15 weeks learning at a different network institution, and funding for 3-4 day multi-network in-person thematic working groups. This is the basic starting point from which we hope to grow an active and effective network of networks that significantly advances understanding and action on urban resilience.




Thank you for completing the survey and disseminating it widely to your network. We will be in touch soon to coordinate our next-step meetings.




NATURA core team,

 Nancy, Timon, Elizabeth, and Yeowon





*The NATURA Coordinating Committee:

Nancy B. Grimm; Arizona State University; Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx), Urban Water Innovation Network (UWIN), US Long-Term Ecological Research network (LTER), International LTER (ILTER); PI

Timon McPhearson; The New School; UREx, ENABLE, Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network (KAN); co-PI

Elizabeth M. Cook; Barnard College-Columbia University; UREx, US LTER; co-PI

Yeowon Kim; Arizona State University; UREx; post-doc

Pippin Anderson; University of Cape Town; African Center for Cities

Harriet Bulkeley; Durham University; NATure-based URban innoVATION (NATURVATION)

Marcus Collier; Trinity College Dublin; Connecting Nature

Chantal van Ham; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); IUCN Urban Alliance

Jordi Morató; Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair on Sustainability, Recycle the City Network (RECNET)

Weiqi Zhou; Chinese Academy of Science; Chinese Academy of Science (CAS Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences)





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