Colin Meurk
Christchurch
Dr Colin Meurk ONZM is an Associate at Manaaki Whenua, a NZ government research institute specialising in characterisation, understanding and sustainable use of terrestrial resources. He holds adjunct positions at Canterbury and Lincoln Universities. His interests are applied biogeography, ecological restoration and design, landscape dynamics, urban ecology, conservation biology, and citizen science.
More by this author at The Nature of Cities
-
Co-Creating Sustainability: Integration of Local Ecological Knowledge in Art Works
-
What actions are successful in activating cities to implement urban biodiversity conservation policies, campaigns, and projects?
-
Our goal is to empower cities to plan for a positive natural future. What is one specific action that should be taken to achieve this goal?
-
Imagine an “ecological certification” for urban design. What are such a certification’s key elements?
-
What are the unifying elements of an urban ecology of the Global South and geographic south? Are they different than those in the north?
-
Green Form and Function versus Green Nativism: In changing urban spaces full of novel ecosystems and natural assemblages, is native purity a viable option?
-
Do urban green corridors “work”? It depends on what we want them to do. What ecological and/or social functions can we realistically expect green corridors to perform in cities? What attributes define them, from a design and performance perspective?
