Editorial for special issue “Integrating Biodiversity in the Urban Planning and Design Processes”

This special issue features selected papers by presenters
of the URBIO 2022 conference “Integrating Biodiversity in
Urban Planning and Design Processes” held on the 28th-
30th November 2022. The conference was hosted by the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in
Leipzig, Germany, in close cooperation with the Humboldt
University of Berlin, the University of Western Australia,
and the University of Missouri (USA). The conference
brought together and facilitated discussions among scientists
and academics, landscape architecture and planning practitioners,
and community groups, in order to co-produce the
knowledge that people need for biodiversity conservation,
planning and designing multifunctional biodiversity-friendly
solutions in urban areas. In total, 122 participants from 24
countries attended the conference. This issue compiled research undertaken in different countries (e.g. Australia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, South
Africa, USA) and continents (Europe, North America,
Africa, Australia). The authors shared a full range of new
theoretical concepts and methodologies on urban biodiversity
as well as practical applications – solutions for integrating
biodiversity in urban landscapes.