BIOSCOPIUM - Guidelines for mapping urban biodiversity in urban regeneration areas

Today’s challenges related to climate change and biodiversity loss in urban spaces should be tackled as a local, regional, and global emergency by designing with Nature. According to the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, cities are called on to lead the conservation and regeneration of biodiversity and to implement it in urban open spaces. Identifying the environmental, cultural, and social values and potentials of urban biodiversity through visuals and maps is part of LAND and Polifactory mission and was specifically explored within T-Factor – Horizon 2020 project in the applicative research “Bioscopium: Guidelines for mapping urban biodiversity in urban regeneration areas”, developed in collaboration with ecological and wildlife experts of Studio TerraViva. Bioscopium was conceived as a handbook for tackling biodiversity loss in meanwhile spaces and big-scale urban regeneration areas, supporting practitioners, real estate developers, policymakers, and decisionmakers in understanding, preserving, and increasing urban biodiversity while highlighting its crucial benefits for environmental quality and human well-being.