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Project Code [NF/2022/39297669]

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Project title

Making wild lives matter: Exploring the transformative potential of everyday encounters with wild urban nature and their contribution to eco-smart city living

Primary Funding Agency

Irish Research Council

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

University College Cork (UCC)

Lead Applicant

n/a

Project Abstract

This project explores how local representations of wildlife as culturally familiar symbols of shared city life offer a means of situating biodiversity and sustainable development imperatives more firmly within everyday public reasoning and increasing receptivity to a climate action agenda. Wildlife moving through and around city spaces serve as an important bridging mechanism, bringing the facts of biodiversity loss together with lived experience. It assesses the value of this rich eco-cultural heritage to the wellbeing, identity and integration of diverse urban communities, noting how this heritage can be creatively used as a tool to further a Smart Cities� green agenda.

Grant Approved

�17,484.70

Research Hub

n/a

Research Theme

Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options

Start Date

16/12/2022

Initial Projected Completion Date

15/12/2023