Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Resilience

This session examines how integrating natural systems into urban environments can enhance resilience, mitigate heat, manage stormwater, and restore biodiversity. It will explore the feasibility and implementation of nature-based strategies, including the restoration of urban waterways and green infrastructure, within established city contexts.

Learning Outcomes
Following this presentation, you should be able to:

· Identify natural systems that can be integrated into urban environments
· Explain how such integration can be achieved
· Identify the barriers to the integration of natural systems into urban environments
· Outline ways to address and overcome these barriers

This presentation will deliver outcomes related to the following Competency/s from the National Standard of Competency for Architects 2021:

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA FOR PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

PC 12 – Provide independent, culturally responsive and objective advice in accordance with relevant building codes, standards, technical specifications and guidelines, and planning regulations, including climate change implications, across all aspects of architectural practice.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA FOR PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

PC 28 – Be able to draw on knowledge from building sciences and technology, environmental sciences and behavioural and social sciences as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design to optimise the performance of the project.

PC 31 – Be able to identify, analyse and integrate information relevant to environmental sustainability – such as energy and water consumption, resources depletion, waste, embodied carbon and carbon emissions – over the lifecycle of a project.