Niki Frantzeskaki
@nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social
passion for research of/with cities, climate change, resilience & sustainability * urban nature-based solutions governance * professor of urban & metropolitan transitions & governance * she/her 🇬🇷🇪🇺
Opening of the academic year @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social on a high note with the theme #HealthyPlanet - can we work collaboratively science society and policy for a healthier planet? In these turbulent times? Are we rising to the challenge? Thinking, reflecting, wishing, strategizing....
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Opening of the academic year @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social on a high note with the theme #HealthyPlanet - can we work collaboratively science society and policy for a healthier planet? In these turbulent times? Are we rising to the challenge? Thinking, reflecting, wishing, strategizing....
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📰 Just out in @pnas.org special issue: @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social , Katinka Wijsman, Nadja Kabisch, and @timonm.bsky.social explore how #NatureBasedSolutions can support just urban transformations.
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#NbS #UrbanJustice #UrbanSustainability #PNAS #JustTransitions
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#NbS #UrbanJustice #UrbanSustainability #PNAS #JustTransitions
July 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
📰 Just out in @pnas.org special issue: @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social , Katinka Wijsman, Nadja Kabisch, and @timonm.bsky.social explore how #NatureBasedSolutions can support just urban transformations.
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#NbS #UrbanJustice #UrbanSustainability #PNAS #JustTransitions
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#NbS #UrbanJustice #UrbanSustainability #PNAS #JustTransitions
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After 3 inspiring years of work, the @ipbes.bsky.social-Transformative Change assessment is finally out. Transformative change for biodiversity is urgent, necessary, challenging - but possible! Reconnecting people & nature through biocultural conservation approaches is a key strategy. www.ipbes.net
December 18, 2024 at 1:05 PM
After 3 inspiring years of work, the @ipbes.bsky.social-Transformative Change assessment is finally out. Transformative change for biodiversity is urgent, necessary, challenging - but possible! Reconnecting people & nature through biocultural conservation approaches is a key strategy. www.ipbes.net
Enjoying Australian landscape and nature .... Waribee zoo today ....west of Melbourne!
January 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Enjoying Australian landscape and nature .... Waribee zoo today ....west of Melbourne!
Lygon street today - #Melbourne #Australia
January 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Lygon street today - #Melbourne #Australia
Thrift shops or op-shops make me happy (discovering amazing things especially flowerpots and vases)and sad (someone's life on sale..) at the same time...
January 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Thrift shops or op-shops make me happy (discovering amazing things especially flowerpots and vases)and sad (someone's life on sale..) at the same time...
January 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Happy new year!!! May 2025 be full of gratitude, positive transitions for all!#Loukoumades a tradition from Greece to Melbourne
January 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Happy new year!!! May 2025 be full of gratitude, positive transitions for all!#Loukoumades a tradition from Greece to Melbourne
December 24, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Also note, the challenges loosely line up with the most salient underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline.
December 21, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Also note, the challenges loosely line up with the most salient underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline.
Well deserved!!!!!!
🎉 Congrats to @timonm.bsky.social, a 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher! 🌍📚
🔗 Read the full list of awarded researchers here: https://buff.ly/3ENkZ3M
#UrbanResilience #ClimateScience
🔗 Read the full list of awarded researchers here: https://buff.ly/3ENkZ3M
#UrbanResilience #ClimateScience
December 13, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Well deserved!!!!!!
State of affairs ...#Ipbes11 ...
December 13, 2024 at 9:06 PM
State of affairs ...#Ipbes11 ...
Has anyone here read this book? Any hints if it is well written?
December 13, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Has anyone here read this book? Any hints if it is well written?
#Ipbes11 is in full steam.... Working full days with the amazing colleagues of the #TransformstiveChangeAssessment - send us positive energy ....
December 13, 2024 at 7:01 PM
#Ipbes11 is in full steam.... Working full days with the amazing colleagues of the #TransformstiveChangeAssessment - send us positive energy ....
We start now with the 11th Plenary of IPBES - more critical than ever to bridge science with policy to deal with biodiversity loss - and I could not have done it without my amazing co-CLAs Sergio Lambertucci and Ed Carr and the fantastic team of chapter 4 - we are gearing up #IPBES11
December 10, 2024 at 8:15 AM
We start now with the 11th Plenary of IPBES - more critical than ever to bridge science with policy to deal with biodiversity loss - and I could not have done it without my amazing co-CLAs Sergio Lambertucci and Ed Carr and the fantastic team of chapter 4 - we are gearing up #IPBES11
Starting of the #IPBES11 plenary in Windhoek/Namimbia, where we will negotiate the #TransformativeChangeAssessment - a three year long assessment focusing on the principles, visions, theories, challenges and pathways for transformative change to live in harmony with nature
December 10, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Starting of the #IPBES11 plenary in Windhoek/Namimbia, where we will negotiate the #TransformativeChangeAssessment - a three year long assessment focusing on the principles, visions, theories, challenges and pathways for transformative change to live in harmony with nature
Traveling to Namimbia through Rome and then Adis Ababa .... Feeling very anxious when traveling and guilty for taking flights ...the reason? #IPBES11
December 8, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Traveling to Namimbia through Rome and then Adis Ababa .... Feeling very anxious when traveling and guilty for taking flights ...the reason? #IPBES11
The #nature in our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social campus is so beautiful ... The winter colours, the leaves...preparing us for the season
December 4, 2024 at 5:35 PM
The #nature in our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social campus is so beautiful ... The winter colours, the leaves...preparing us for the season
My computer crashed on Monday night - I spent all day yesterday working on my cell, calling IT with no progress... Today heading to IT to see what can be done as - computer dead or alive - ...the worst timing ever? Yes, 70 assignments to grade and traveling in three days to #ipbes11
December 4, 2024 at 7:31 AM
My computer crashed on Monday night - I spent all day yesterday working on my cell, calling IT with no progress... Today heading to IT to see what can be done as - computer dead or alive - ...the worst timing ever? Yes, 70 assignments to grade and traveling in three days to #ipbes11
Do we write here when we also have bad days? How do you deal with ... jealousy? like...yellow face situations but with being alive not dead
December 2, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Do we write here when we also have bad days? How do you deal with ... jealousy? like...yellow face situations but with being alive not dead
...surrounded by talented (passionate and good) people...I think we need to write that one @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #PathwaystoSustainability
November 30, 2024 at 7:25 AM
...surrounded by talented (passionate and good) people...I think we need to write that one @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #PathwaystoSustainability
Being part of a community is what gives me hope - and our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #sustainability community of #PathwaystoSustainability is dynamic, growing and with passionate ideas to make positive change for people and planet - grateful and hopeful!
November 30, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Being part of a community is what gives me hope - and our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #sustainability community of #PathwaystoSustainability is dynamic, growing and with passionate ideas to make positive change for people and planet - grateful and hopeful!
Enjoy the weekend! Let's use our imagination for better cities, better connections with our communities and our collective futures! At #Utrecht
November 29, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Enjoy the weekend! Let's use our imagination for better cities, better connections with our communities and our collective futures! At #Utrecht