Juliana Gonçalves

As the climate crisis deepens, the importance of biodiversity is increasingly being recognised. Large municipalities such as Rotterdam and The Hague have already implemented monitoring plans and measures to strengthen biodiversity. However, these measures often do not receive public support as citizens perceive biodiversity as complex, boring, and distant from their daily lives, with an equivocal understanding that improving biodiversity is the same as increasing common greenery. Yet, citizens’ efforts are needed for an integrated approach to biodiversity because roughly 60% of the urban environment is privately owned.

In this context, this project developed BIO-CiVo – an interactive interface for scenario-making tailored to citizen engagement in biodiversity action, enabling them to explore biodiversity across spatial scales but from a neighbourhood perspective.

BIO-CiVo is funded by the Resilient Delta Initiative. The project is a collaboration between TU Delft (Juliana Gonçalves & Geertje Slingerland, project lead), Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Anja Overdiek), and Erasmus University (Mike Duijn). The team members include Isabella Jaramillo Diaz, Maria Gil Falcon, and Jing Spaaij.

Outputs

Slingerland, G., & Gonçalves, J. (2024). BIO-CiVo: Citizen Voices in Biodiversity. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12180644

Gonçalves, J., & Slingerland, G. (2024, June 19). Citizen Voices in Climate Action: The role of interface design in digital engagement. AMS Scientific Conference 2024, Amsterdam. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12169892