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Niki Frantzeskaki

@nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social

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passion for research of/with cities, climate change, resilience & sustainability * urban nature-based solutions governance * professor of urban & metropolitan transitions & governance * she/her 🇬🇷🇪🇺

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Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Sep 1

Opening of the academic year @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social on a high note with the theme #HealthyPlanet - can we work collaboratively science society and policy for a healthier planet? In these turbulent times? Are we rising to the challenge? Thinking, reflecting, wishing, strategizing....

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Urban Systems Lab @uslnyc.bsky.social · Jul 30

📰 Just out in @pnas.org special issue: @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social , Katinka Wijsman, Nadja Kabisch, and @timonm.bsky.social explore how #NatureBasedSolutions can support just urban transformations.

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#NbS #UrbanJustice #UrbanSustainability #PNAS #JustTransitions

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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · Dec 18

After 3 inspiring years of work, the @ipbes.bsky.social-Transformative Change assessment is finally out. Transformative change for biodiversity is urgent, necessary, challenging - but possible! Reconnecting people & nature through biocultural conservation approaches is a key strategy. www.ipbes.net

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Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Jan 8

Enjoying Australian landscape and nature .... Waribee zoo today ....west of Melbourne!

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Jan 6

Lygon street today - #Melbourne #Australia

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Jan 5

Thrift shops or op-shops make me happy (discovering amazing things especially flowerpots and vases)and sad (someone's life on sale..) at the same time...

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Jan 5

Last week of holidays - #Hawthorn #Melbourne #Australia

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Jan 1

Happy new year!!! May 2025 be full of gratitude, positive transitions for all!#Loukoumades a tradition from Greece to Melbourne

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 30

Happily! We had lunch but will meet again

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 24

Happy holidays!!!! #NGV today #Melbourne #Australia

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · Dec 21

Also note, the challenges loosely line up with the most salient underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline.

The SPM figure drawn from Ch4 of the Transformative Change Assessment - it is a wheel, with the central views/structures/practices that need to be changed at the center, a ring of underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature's decline around the center, another ring of five challenges to transformative change, and outside the 20 barriers that emerge from these challenges.

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Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 16

Say that again please

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 16

#Namimbia last day today - pictures from yesterday

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 14

Thank you - will search for the book.....

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 13

Well deserved!!!!!!

Urban Systems Lab @uslnyc.bsky.social · Dec 13

🎉 Congrats to @timonm.bsky.social, a 2024 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher! 🌍📚

🔗 Read the full list of awarded researchers here: https://buff.ly/3ENkZ3M

#UrbanResilience #ClimateScience

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 13

State of affairs ...#Ipbes11 ...

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 13

Has anyone here read this book? Any hints if it is well written?

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Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 13

#Ipbes11 is in full steam.... Working full days with the amazing colleagues of the #TransformstiveChangeAssessment - send us positive energy ....

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 10

We start now with the 11th Plenary of IPBES - more critical than ever to bridge science with policy to deal with biodiversity loss - and I could not have done it without my amazing co-CLAs Sergio Lambertucci and Ed Carr and the fantastic team of chapter 4 - we are gearing up #IPBES11

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Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 10

Starting of the #IPBES11 plenary in Windhoek/Namimbia, where we will negotiate the #TransformativeChangeAssessment - a three year long assessment focusing on the principles, visions, theories, challenges and pathways for transformative change to live in harmony with nature

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 8

Christmas is around the corner....amazing croissants from#Chatwick #Breda

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 8

Traveling to Namimbia through Rome and then Adis Ababa .... Feeling very anxious when traveling and guilty for taking flights ...the reason? #IPBES11

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 4

The #nature in our @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social campus is so beautiful ... The winter colours, the leaves...preparing us for the season

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 4

My computer crashed on Monday night - I spent all day yesterday working on my cell, calling IT with no progress... Today heading to IT to see what can be done as - computer dead or alive - ...the worst timing ever? Yes, 70 assignments to grade and traveling in three days to #ipbes11

Niki Frantzeskaki @nfrantzeskaki.bsky.social · Dec 2

What about professional jealousy .... Is there any equivalent to limerence? I will search for limerence as well.... I learnt a new thing today, thank you!