Ian Mell is a Reader in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester, UK. Ian’s work focuses on the development, application and evaluation of Green Infrastructure policy and practice in the UK and internationally. His work examines the influence of governance, finance, and thematic understandings of landscape quality in the delivery of more sustainable places. Ian has received funding from the EU (Horizon 2020), the Newton Fund and Defra/Natural England to develop evidence supporting the delivery of Nature-Based Solutions and a national Green Infrastructure standard in the UK. He is also the author of Global Green Infrastructure (Routledge, 2016), Planning Cities with Nature (Lemes de Oliveira & Mell, 2019, Springer) and Green Infrastructure Planning: Reintegrating Landscape in Urban Planning (Lund Humphries, 2019).
Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk, PhD, has degrees in Architecture, Urbanism and Philosophy (USP). Professor of Landscape Architecture at Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, IAU – USP. Co-Leader Research Group YBY: Land Studies, Urban Policies, Production of Space and Landscape. Coordinator of GTPU Working Group for Planning Urban Parks, São Carlos-SP, and USP Municipios research. Coordinator São Carlos nucleus of the QUAPÁ-SEL, a network of Open Spaces Systems and Landscape Research in Brazil, FAU – USP. Former vice president of the Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects, ABAP, 2016 – 2018 and president ABAP 2018 – 2020 and 2020 – 2022.
Ian Mell is a Reader in Environmental & Landscape Planning at the University of Manchester, UK. Ian’s work focuses on the development, application and evaluation of Green Infrastructure policy and practice in the UK and internationally. His work examines the influence of governance, finance, and thematic understandings of landscape quality in the delivery of more sustainable places. Ian has received funding from the EU (Horizon 2020), the Newton Fund and Defra/Natural England to develop evidence supporting the delivery of Nature-Based Solutions and a national Green Infrastructure standard in the UK. He is also the author of Global Green Infrastructure (Routledge, 2016), Planning Cities with Nature (Lemes de Oliveira & Mell, 2019, Springer) and Green Infrastructure Planning: Reintegrating Landscape in Urban Planning (Lund Humphries, 2019).
Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk, PhD, has degrees in Architecture, Urbanism and Philosophy (USP). Professor of Landscape Architecture at Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo, IAU – USP. Co-Leader Research Group YBY: Land Studies, Urban Policies, Production of Space and Landscape. Coordinator of GTPU Working Group for Planning Urban Parks, São Carlos-SP, and USP Municipios research. Coordinator São Carlos nucleus of the QUAPÁ-SEL, a network of Open Spaces Systems and Landscape Research in Brazil, FAU – USP. Former vice president of the Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects, ABAP, 2016 – 2018 and president ABAP 2018 – 2020 and 2020 – 2022.