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Our Tiny Forest in Athens creates green space and engages the community in planting and citizen science. It mitigates heat stress and supports urban wildlife. With 600 trees on 200m², it requires low maintenance.
- Lack of nature in the built environment: supplying biodiversity, climate adaptation and nature intelligence to the urban community
- Lack of social cohesion: Planting, citizen science and other events at the forest brings communities together in an activity.
- Climate change effect: cooling effect of trees through evapotranspiration and tree canopy shading, infiltrates and stores surplus of excessive rainwater locally and stores carbon.
This hazard creates heavy precipitation / pluvial floods, and heatwaves.
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The market assessment of this innovation has been self-declared by the provider and has not been independently verified. For more details, please contact the innovator directly.
A Tiny Forest is a nature-based solution that will provide direct benefits cooling the local environment.
Earthwatch has adapted a robust method of tree planting developed in the 1970s by Dr Akira Miyawaki, embedding community engagement and citizen science into the model. Earthwatch has worked in collaboration with IVN Natuureducatie (an education organisation based in the Netherlands) on the Tiny Forest approach. Earthwatch independently developed the Tiny Forest citizen science programme and platform (https://tinyforest.earthwatch.org.uk/)
– Identifying a suitable site required – Municipality to identify a suitable urban location, Earthwatch will support by providing the criteria and a site assessment.
– Vandalism and damaged trees – minimised through strong engagement with the local community.
– Lack of maintenance in the first 2 years – this will require agreement with the municipality on a management plan, primarily watering during extreme dry weather and maintenance of forest furniture (benches, fencing).
Our Tiny Forest in Athens creates green space and engages the community in planting and citizen science. It mitigates heat stress and supports urban wildlife. With 600 trees on 200m², it requires low maintenance.
- Lack of nature in the built environment: supplying biodiversity, climate adaptation and nature intelligence to the urban community
- Lack of social cohesion: Planting, citizen science and other events at the forest brings communities together in an activity.
- Climate change effect: cooling effect of trees through evapotranspiration and tree canopy shading, infiltrates and stores surplus of excessive rainwater locally and stores carbon.
This hazard creates heavy precipitation / pluvial floods, and heatwaves.
The business plan for this innovation has been evaluated by The Funding Company and it is considered to be ready for investment.
The business plan for this innovation has been evaluated by The Funding Company and it is considered to be ready for investment.
The main components of the system have been tested separately, and an initial integration exercise has been conducted.
A Tiny Forest is a nature-based solution that will provide direct benefits cooling the local environment.
Earthwatch has adapted a robust method of tree planting developed in the 1970s by Dr Akira Miyawaki, embedding community engagement and citizen science into the model. Earthwatch has worked in collaboration with IVN Natuureducatie (an education organisation based in the Netherlands) on the Tiny Forest approach. Earthwatch independently developed the Tiny Forest citizen science programme and platform (https://tinyforest.earthwatch.org.uk/)
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