Urban planning tools for addressing land degradation and promoting land restoration
This workshop will offer a set of master classes on urban land degradation and will showcase how planning tools can be used to halt or reverse land degradation and to promote land restoration. The programme will include technical sessions, case studies, field trips and group discussions. The topics to be covered will include the nexus between climate change and land degradation, contextualization of urban land degradation within planning; aspects of development control for disaster risk reduction. Participants will be exposed to contemporary urban planning tools and methodologies (Artificial Intelligence, Drones etc.) They will also be exposed to technology in sustainable urban planning including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, and other technological innovations in urban planning to aid land restoration. Circular economy in Urban Planning and green cities concepts as tools for land restoration.
