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C-NEWTRAL Blog Posts 

Learn more about the experiences of the C-NEWTRAL Team and the Doctoral Candidate's Research

The C-NEWTRAL Story 30Dec
The C-NEWTRAL Story

Dr. Aura-Luciana Istrate is Assistant Professor in Sustainable Urbanism and Urban Planning at University College Dublin. She is the Primary Coordinator of C-NEWTRAL Doctoral Network and co-leading the Horizon Europe project REALLOCATE. She is leading the Active Research Group at UCD with research interests concerning active mobility and public spaces, integrating nature-based solutions in cities, community engagement, and overall improving urban liveability and vitality.

C-NEWTRAL project aims to rethink the path to climate neutrality through interdisciplinary doctoral research on citizen engagement and city governance decision-making for integrated planning.

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Girona 13Feb
A More-Than-Human Path to Sustainable Cities

How can we live with, not against, urban nature?

In our second blog post, A More-Than-Human Path to Sustainable Cities, Dr. Lucia Alexandra Popartan—an environmental social scientist, researcher at the University of Girona’s LEQUIA research group, and C-NEWTRAL Project Supervisor—along with co-author Enric Cassú Camps, an anthropologist and philosophy student, explore how we can design urban spaces that integrate and work with nature rather than against it.

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