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Half-full or Half-empty? Perspectives on Biodiversity Conservation in Singapore

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Speaker

陈培育 Tan Puay Yok

Professor and cluster leader of the Landscape Studies group at Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore / Executive Director, National Parks, Gardens and Community, National Parks Board, Singapore / Chief Science and Technology Officer, National Parks Board, Singapore / Group Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens / Co-Editor-in-Chief for Landscape and Urban Planning (Elsevier)​

Host

陈睿山 CHEN Ruishan

Associate Dean and Tenured Professor, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Co-host

张理卿 ZHANG Liqing

Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Welcome Remarks

朱祥明 ZHU Xiangming

National Master of Engineering Survey and Design / The President of the Shanghai Society of Landscape Architecture

Time

10:00-11:00 (UTC+8) 14 Oct, 2024

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Location

Conference Room 417, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Minhang Campus)

Online participation

Tencent Meeting

Meeting ID：981975419

assword：232938

https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/SvgjmcWvRynE 

Notice: Folloiwng the lecture, faculties and students from SJTU can join subsequent meeting with the speaker professor at the same location. Please sign up for the in-person meeting session through scanning the QR code as below.

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Organizers

School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Shanghai Society of Landscape Archtiecture

Cooperative Media

Chinese Landscape Architecture Journal

新加坡生物多样性保护：半满还是半空？

Half-full or Half-empty? Perspectives on Biodiversity Conservation in Singapore

｜ Abstract

Singapore is well-recognized as a green city despite its high built and population densities. Among its key greening objectives as it continues to develop is to be not just a green, but also a biodiverse city. This entails putting in place, strategies, policies and programs that protect existing biodiversity in biodiversity rich sites, as well as enhance biodiversity in urbanized areas across different spatial scales. In this presentation, the speaker will share on the context for enhancing biodiversity in Singapore, current policies and programs, and insights from the efforts in Singapore that may be also relevant to other cities.

|  Biography of the speaker

陈培育 教授  Prof. Tan Puay Yok

Tan Puay Yok is a Professor and cluster leader of the Landscape Studies group at National University of Singapore. He is jointly appointed by the National Parks Board, Singapore, as the Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a leading institute in tropical botany and horticulture and has over its 160-year history, played a key role in the social, economic and environmental history of Singapore and the region. It is one of only three botanic gardens in the world that is currently inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. He is also concurrently the Executive Director and the Chief Science and Technology Officer for the National Parks Board, the national agency responsible for greenery, ecology and conservation matters in Singapore. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief for Landscape and Urban Planning (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Journal of Urban Ecology (Oxford University Press), Editorial Board Member of npj Urban Sustainability (Nature Partner Journals), and Advisory Board Member of The Gardens Bulletin (Singapore Botanic Gardens). He combines his background in the sciences, experience in urban governance from the public sector, and interactions with practitioners to apply knowledge for urban greening to improve environmental quality and societal well-being. He is active in international collaborations, grant reviews and publishes widely in different forums. He also advises on greening policies, landscape design and planning projects in the region as a means of transferring knowledge from the academia to practice.

Landscape and Urban Planning 期刊封面

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主编著作 Greening Cities Forms and Functions 封面

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 LA+TALK Introduction

LA talk is a fronteir-oriented academic lecture series which is jointly held by the School of Design of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Shanghai Society of Landscape Architecture. This lecture series invites leading scholars and designers in the landscape architecture domain to discuss academic research and practice frontiers. This series of lectures is open to teachers and students of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, members of the Shanghai Society of Landscape Architecture and all audiences who are interested in landscape architecture. It aims to promote the exchange and collision of cutting-edge concepts of this discipline in China and internationally, and build a bridge for dialogues between masters and practitioners, to jointly promote the development of landscape architecture discipline with universities, professional societies and industry forces.

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