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Part 1: 21st century challenges
Part 2: Learning from Nature
Part 3: Research
Part 4: Development
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– Patrick Geddes
“How many people think twice about a leaf? Yet the leaf is the
chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and
small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live.”
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Part 1
question
Is there a need to change?
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54%7 Billion
“Resilience is the long-term capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop.”
– Stockholm Resilience Centre (2013)
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“Resilience thinking…..belief that humans and nature are strongly coupled to the point that they should be conceived as one social- ecological system.”
– Stockholm Resilience Centre (2013)
Part 2
So what is biomimicry?
BIOMIMICRY is the mimicking of nature.
It is NOT the solution, but a way to FIND solutions.
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Design
ImplementEvaluate
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PROCESSImage source: Hungarian wetland Wikimedia Commons 3.0
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SYSTEMImage source: Riparian habitat by U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region CC 2.0 flickr.com
Part 3
Improved Risk Management+ Resilience
Sustainable Urbanisation
Restoration of DegradedEcosystems
Climate Change Adaptation+ Mitigation
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Part 4
90%
54 acresImage source: Mixed conifer forest Ochoco Mountains OR by Wayne Weber CC 2.0 flickr.com
30%
stormwater treatment
wildlife corridor
35-block area
reduce CO2 emission
ecological sensitivity
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70%30%
65% 95%12,500acres
5 villages
50,000
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future….
habitat connectivity
biodiversity
resilience
improve ecological status
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City Resilience FrameworkCity Resilience Index
April 2014 © Ove Arup & Partners International Limited 2014
City Resilience Framework November 2014
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Bristol, England
Chronic Energy Shortages, Flooding (Coastal and Rainfall)Food ShortageInfrastructure FailurePoor Health Infrastructure
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Porto Alegre, Brazil
EarthquakeFloodingPoor Transportation SystemTsunami
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CHANGE NEEDED
architecture
ecology
finance
economicslandscape
engineering
materials
government
“If I were given one hour tosave the planet, I would spend59 minutes defining the problemand 1 minute solving it” - Albert Einstein
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