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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)
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 Theme
Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options
Initial Projected Completion Date
15/12/2023