Policy, Biodiversity and the City
- Date
- May 16, 2023
- Time
- 11:00 AM EDT - 11:45 AM EDT
- Location
- Zoom webinar
- Open To
- All
- Contact
- cpfeiffer@torontomu.ca
Policy, Biodiversity and the City
Fostering biodiversity is a strategy to increase urban resilience. Investigations of how municipal policy can further support biodiversity is central to the work of the Ecological Design Lab (external link) . This talk will discuss the policy reforms that have occurred across Ontario over the last three years to encourage the naturalization of private yards. Led by Nina-Marie Lister (Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning; Director, Ecological Design Lab) and a team of interdisciplinary environmentalists, the Ecological Design Lab has supported the reform of 14 Ontario bylaws which further enable biodiversity. There is still much to be done to recognize biodiversity in municipal policy, so that it may be further represented in the public, private and in-between spaces of the city.