TERRAenVISION 2024
Nature-based solutions
to facilitate the transitions for living within the planetary boundaries
8-11 July 2024
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University of Valencia, Spain
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Themes

AN: Nature based solutions for agriculture and natural areas (soil, water and landscape)

NH: Nature based solutions for natural hazards (fire, floods and droughts)

UR: Nature based solutions for land and water management in urban and industrial areas (soil, water and spatial planning)

MET: HOW TO MEASURE PROCESSES AND IMPACT OF NBS (AI, RS, etc.. )

Mission statement

SB: Science brokers for transitioning to a climate resilient and circular society

Our Planet suffers from human activities. Agriculture, cities, nature and industries all need to transition to address the challenges related to climate, biodiversity and resource availability. More and more scientific and practical evidence arises that shows that nature-inclusive and nature-based solutions allow mankind to live within the planetary boundaries. Despite the evidence, NBS are still not the first choice when looking for transformative solutions for agriculture, nature, cities and industry.

To create the enabling conditions for the transition towards a society that stays within the planetary boundaries, it is needed that scientists, policy makers, financial institutes and industry join forces.
This conference aims to provide a platform for a broad range of stakeholders that together can exchange experiences and identify new transformational pathways towards a sustainable society within the planetary boundaries.TERRAVISION promotes the exchange of scientific research, solutions from industry and insights from policy for interdisciplinary collaboration and networking. To facilitate the dialogue between scientists and stakeholders with the same goal, work on the same societal issue but with different backgrounds. By bringing the people and their knowledge together, we may be able to take the steps towards solutions that can bring our society to a more sustainable situation. In this conference, we want to link to International policies such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Climate conventions, the Green Deal, COP and CAP.

This conference is framed around themes which are connected to the big transitions of our time. Each theme is kicked off by two plenary keynote speeches of 20 min, followed by a discussion. After the plenary session, various parallel sessions will be organised.

We want to stress that this conference is not only for scientists, but also for those people from outside the scientific world working on transitions towards climate mitigation and adaptation, sustainable cities and agriculture and a circular economy with a focus on the sustainable use and management of the natural system.

Keynote speakers

Emilio Barba

Professor of Ecology, University of Valencia

Giuseppe Grezzi

Deputy Mayor, Councilor for Sustainable Mobility and Public Space, Valencia

Natxo Lacomba

Head of the Parks and Gardens Service, Valencia City

Heleen van den Hombergh

Senior Expert, Agro-Commodities

Wouter Vanneuville

Expert on Climate Change Adaptation, European Environment Agency

Stephan Ourevitch

Co-founder and Partner, ALSO Space

Gemma García Blanco

Senior researcher, TECNALIA Research & Innovation

Danush Dinesh

Head of Partnerships and Outreach, Wageningen University & Research

Fernando Valladares

Research Professor, Spanish Council for Scientific Research

Robert B. Zougmoré

Principal Scientist, Alliance Bioversity International & CIAT

Organizing committee

Artemi Cerda

Professor in Physical Geography, University of Valencia, Spain

Margot de Cleen

Senior Advisor, Soil and Water Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, The Netherlands

Saskia Keesstra

Senior researcher, Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands, Conjoint Associate Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia

Saskia Visser

Land use, agri-food and sustainable bio-economy Orchester, Climate-KIC, the Netherlands

Ioannis Daliakopoulos

Assistant Professor, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Scientific & Societal Committee

Venue

University of Valencia Facultad de Geografía i Història Blasco Ibàñez, 28, 46010-Valencia, Spain

The University of Valencia (Valencian: Universitat de València); also known by the acronym UV) is a university located in the Spanish city of Valencia. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Valencian Community, and is regarded as one of Spain’s leading academic institutions. The University was founded in 1499, and currently has around 55,000 students.
Main organizer of the 4th TERRAenVISION meeting is Artemi Cerdà.

Find out more about Valencia and how to get there and the venue

About Valencia

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If you need any further information you can contact him at: artemio.cerda@uv.es