Please to be hosting a World Café session at ESP Europe 2026 on advancing citizen participation in social-ecological scenario planning 🫂🏞️

👉Session overview: cdn.aanmelderusercontent.nl/i/doc/88995799…

📭Accepting abstracts to contribute to part 1: scene setting

Blackheath and Greenwich looking more like a Savanna than a Common and Park on this hot London day! But #GreenInfrastructure providing "more than human" urban cooling benefits and interesting to see drought resistance of non-cut vs cut!

Excited to be starting the new year in a #NewJob working on #UrbaReLeaf based at @dundeeuni.bsky.social and across Europe to provide innovative and participatory approaches to create liveable, and resilient cities through urban greening which empower citizens

A fantastic day yesterday at my PhD graduation and a fitting end to my time at @northumbriauni.bsky.social as part of the ONE Planet DTP

I feel increasingly lucky to have had @profajscott.bsky.social by my side as a truly superb supervisor and mentor

An additional research aim was to test #AI tools for landscape research.

AI tools were effective for creating scenario landscape visualisations and may be an key tool for expanding participatory research methods, such as photo collages to depict desired #FutureLandscapes 🧵(10/10)

Nearly all stakeholder involved felt that #GreenBelts need change for the 21st Century.

The #Multifunctional scenario was perceived as having most benefits, likely and preferred.

There is substantial cross-sector consensus for more (multi)functional Green Belts as a uniting framework 🧵(8/10)

3: Multifunctional 🌳🏘️A joined up policy agenda recognises the functional potential of Green Belt landscapes, seeking to integrate policy to manage trade-offs and deliver important ecosystem services, alongside much needed affordable housing and strategic growth. 🧵(6/10)

2: Build-Build-Build 🏘️: Green Belts are eased around the urban edge to meet increasing market demands for housing in a growing housing crisis. But at the expense of wider benefits to ecosystem services, under an uncoordinated approaches and absence of strategic planning. 🧵(5/10)

1: Intensify & Diversify 🚜- Driven by global food and energy markets and supported by planning deregulation, land is agriculturally intensified and diversified in the Green Belt. Green Belt policy is unable to counter these trends due to its narrow disintegrated nature.🧵(4/10)

Three diverging scenarios were created: “Intensify & Diversify”, “Build-Build-Build” and “Multifunctional” framed on a governance-functionality axis.

We used and tested #AI image generation to create fictional but typical base #GreenBelt landscapes to visualise possible changes 🧵(3/10)

#GreenBelts are more contentious than ever. As planning zones they are under scrutiny to deliver #Housing.

But as #SocialEcologicalLandscapes, wider land-use demands coverage. A cross-sector stakeholder workshop co-developed exploratory Green Belt landscape scenarios in 2044🧵(2/10)

📢📜 My 5th PhD paper has been published in #LandscapeandUrbanPlanning w/ @profajscott.bsky.social Claire Walsh

Drawing on stakeholder co-developed exploratory scenarios our timely research asks what English #GreenBelt landscapes might look like in the future?

doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

...🧵(1/10)

Popping this 2016 vintage to celebrate my final (probably...) PhD paper being accepted in Landscape and Urban Planning

Great to see @profajscott.bsky.social giving evidence at the Environmental Audit Committee inquiryon Environmental sustainability and housing growth.

Making the case for breaking down silos, strategic planning and championing nature in planning, including Green Belts benefits. Thanks for the plug!