Thirteenth RECLAIM webinar - GBGI and Marginalised Communities & Place-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change

Dr Andrea Berardi successfully spearheaded the inclusion of a 'Green Corridor' policy within Neighbourhood Planning through a community-led participatory process. In this secondment, he has worked with Spelthorne Borough Council to scale-up his participatory GBGI co-design approach at borough-level in order to engage with the needs and desires of local stakeholders, especially low-income and vulnerable communities. In this seminar Andrea will present his GBGI participatory and systemic co-design approach and will showcase videos produced by community members of the co-design process.

Gillian is the Manager of Spatial Planning – Research & Development team within the Development Plan Group at Glasgow City Council.  She has a BSc (Hons) in Town Planning from Heriot-Watt University and BSc (Hons) in Human Geography from the Open University.  She is a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and currently the Chair of the Partnership and Accreditation Panel. She is the RTPI nominate rep on the Technical University Dublin Partnership Board, where she is the vice-chair. She previously had a similar role with Queens University Belfast.

Gillian had a lead role for the Council within the Horizon 2020 Connecting Nature project, where Glasgow was one of the front runner cities. Gillian was also on the European practitioner review panel for the IPCC 6 Climate Change report summary for practitioners.

Gillian started her career in Banff & Buchan / Aberdeenshire before moving to Glasgow 18 years ago. She therefore has a broad breadth of experience working both very rural and highly urbanised areas.  Gillian takes a place-based approach with a nature-based solutions focus to hopefully create climate adaptive spaces and places. Her main focus is on:

• Place-based approach using nature-based solutions to create climate adaptive spaces and places.
• Innovation in new policy such as subsurface, NBS, Net zero, climate benchmarking and adaptability.
• Date driven decision making, impact assessment and monitoring using GIS as the key tool.
• Adaptability, innovating and thinking outside the box.