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Sharing Space: People and Wildlife in Bengaluru’s Home Gardens

Tue, 06/02/2026 - 12:45
Not long ago, Bengaluru had a different identity. People called it the Garden City, a place of wide, tree-lined roads, quiet lakes, and a climate so gentle it earned the nickname Pensioners’ Paradise. That city still exists in the memories of older residents, in photographs, and in the stories people tell when they are feeling […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Whose voices shape and make decisions in NbS, and who doesn’t get included? What could real inclusion look like in practice?

Fri, 05/29/2026 - 12:08
  Nicolas Salmon In our experience working on nature-based solutions in cities across Ecuador and Latin America, the problem is not that we do not know participation matters. Everybody says participation matters. The problem is that almost everything in the way projects are designed — timelines, funding structures, institutional cultures, and even expert anxieties — […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Students and Stewardship: Connecting with Nature in a Peri-urban University Campus

Wed, 05/27/2026 - 06:32
Urbanising cities in the Global South have a multitude of challenges—rapid demographic changes placing pressure on environmental resources, services, and infrastructure unable to keep pace with unplanned urbanisation, and urban sprawl creating a dystopian peri-urban landscape. Often, urbanisation is accompanied by loss of urban green and blue spaces, as built-up infrastructure replaces urban ecosystems. While […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Plant Journal

Mon, 05/18/2026 - 11:57
Trees as lived memories serve us citizens and residents, a culinary or recreational experience of engaging with them at regular intervals in our lives. A mango or jackfruit tree may bring back past relationships with our forefathers, and their ritualistic pickling processes or preservation through frying of chips. A banyan or peepal tree of the […]
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

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