Marcus Collier

Marcus has carried out research in diverse areas of land use and land-use change, resilience thinking and societal transitioning, collaborative management and planning, urban and rural governance, biodiversity impact, as well as novel landscapes and landscape elements. In recent years his research has focused on methods and innovations in building urban resilience and fostering sustainability. As an environmental consultant, prior to entering academia, he worked with communities and governmental agencies to co-devise and implement environmental projects through adaptive collaborative processes. He has much experience in the co-creation and co-design of environmental projects to shape empirical research methodologies for use in testing new mechanisms for collecting data. Marcus coordinates Connecting Nature, a Horizon 2020 project which has thirty-one partners in sixteen European countries, as well as many non-EU cities. His work aims to deploy nature-based solutions to increase biodiversity and foster climate resilience across cities. He coordinated the FP7 TURAS project which developed novel strategies of innovative design; collaboration; and integrated and resilient policy prescriptions, which have enabled urban planners and policy makers to tackle the adaption of urban landscape to climate challenges. Marcus is an expert panel member for the European Research Council.

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