McKenna Davis (Ecologic Institut)

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems – complementing grey with green for improved adaptation

Presentation: Speech
Date: 18 October 2015
Location: Bonn, Germany
Speech: McKenna Davis

On 18 November 2015, McKenna Davis, Fellow at Ecologic Institute, gave a presentation at the European Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change on Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems. The biennial conference, organized by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the European Network of Heads of Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA), focused on "Nature-based solutions to climate change in urban areas and their rural surroundings: Linkages between science, policy and practice." The presentation slides are available for download.

McKenna Davis introduced Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) as a valuable tool for reducing Europe’s vulnerability to climate change, and highlighted their potential to aid adaptation efforts while also offering a myriad of additional social, economic and environmental benefits. Drawing on preliminary outcomes of the EU-funded RECREATE project, the evidence basis for SuDS as an effective solution to urban flooding challenges was presented alongside the related challenges and potential barriers as compared to traditional engineered solutions.

Nature-based solutions can support urban adaptation needs, while also generating additional social, environmental and economic benefits

RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard – Instructional Video

Year 2018

Publication:Policy Brief

This policy brief explores and explains the concept and rational of co-creation, both as a general concept as well as in the specific context of sustainability science. Furthermore, it takes a detailed look at its use and potential in the framework of European research & innovation funding. On this basis, it identifies a number of lessons learned with regard to the application of the concept and puts forward concrete policy recommendations. The RECREATE policy brief, written by Ecologic Institute's Dr. Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, is available for download.

Co-creation in Sustainability Science

Challenges and potential ways forward in implementing co-creation in European research and innovation funding

Year 2018

Publication:Report

This summary pocket book presents key recommendations gathered in the project RECREATE regarding future research and innovation needs in "Societal Challenge 5: Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials". The results include very concrete recommendations on selected topics, overarching recommendations which shall help integrating the different research areas better and recommendations regarding the use of various methodologies. The summary pocket book is available for download.

EU's Future R&I Needs in the Fields of 'Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials'

Recommendations from the RECREATE project

Year 2018

Publication:Web Application

The RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard is a website that presents relevant indicators for tackling societal challenges in the areas of climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials. The Scoreboard provides indicators on ten different Environmental Innovation Systems, or fields of knowledge, that are of high relevance to the areas of climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials.

RECREATE Green Horizons Scoreboard

Year 2018

Publication:Policy Brief

Ecologic Institute co-authored the RECREATE policy brief no. 7 on challenges and opportunities for national waste prevention programs. The authors state that the political framework needs to be more enabling and with further support for research and development targeted at measuring waste prevention and behavior change to unlock the potential of waste prevention. The RECREATE policy brief is available for download.

Stepping up Waste Prevention

Challenges and Opportunities for National Waste Prevention Programmes

Year 2017

Publication:Policy Brief

Policy Brief no.3 examines the case of using Climate information Services to increase urban resilience, learning from the Danish experience with Cloudburst management. It is based on one of the detailed narratives carried out for the RECREATE project. The policy brief is available for download.

Climate Information Services for Urban Resilience

Learning from the Danish experience with cloudburst management

Year 2016

Publication:Report

The RECREATE consortium developed fourteen evidence-based narratives covering the three DG Research and Innovation flagship objectives that were presented to the European Commission in March 2015. On the basis of those narratives, the RECREATE consortium has been asked to deepen the investigation concerning selected narratives. The present deliverable represents the output of this request.

Evidence-Based Narratives – part 2

Triangulation of Selected Narratives

Year 2015

Publication:Policy Brief

The solar services sector sells the service of providing the use of solar electricity to its customer instead of selling solar PV systems (the product). This new business model can be seen as a radical innovation for the solar sector – as it is in other sectors. It is particularly interesting from the perspective of systemic eco-innovation fostering a carbon-free and circular economy. The policy brief is available for download.

Selling Solar Services as a Contribution to a Circular Economy

Year 2015

Publication:Report

This document contains evidence‐based narratives within the area of "Nature‐Based Solutions". The material found herein has been compiled on request of the Directorate‐General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) with reference to the project RECREATE. Data were obtained from a variety of different sources, including both published and unpublished works, but mainly constitute the result of desk research.

Evidence-Based Narratives

Nature-Based Solutions

Year 2015

Event: European Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change (ECBCC 2015)
Organizer: Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany

Heads of European Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA), International

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Germany
Speech: McKenna Davis
Date: 18 October 2015
Location: Bonn, Germany
Language: English
Project: Research Network in Climate, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (RECREATE)
Project ID: 2723
Keywords: Adaptation

Biodiversity

Cities

Climate

Water

nature-based solution; urban; cities; adaptation; flooding; climate change; green infrastructure

Presentation slides by McKenna Davis [pdf, 1 MB, English]

Presentation slides

davis_suds.pdf (1.06 MB)

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems – complementing grey with green for improved adaptation

Challenges and potential ways forward in implementing co-creation in European research and innovation funding

Recommendations from the RECREATE project

Challenges and Opportunities for National Waste Prevention Programmes

Learning from the Danish experience with cloudburst management

Triangulation of Selected Narratives

Nature-­Based Solutions

Nature-Based Solutions