Scaling nature-based solutions for climate resilient infrastructure

Role:  Former MSc candidate 2020
Project: Overcoming unequal access to urban green spaces in a post-apartheid city: Challenges and opportunities for nature-based solutions in Windhoek, Namibia
Affiliation: School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford
ORCID: 0000-0001-6978-8447
Email: valentina.giombini@hotmail.com

Valentina is research officer with an interest in green infrastructure, ecosystem services and ecological connectivity. She was a master’s student in the Peri Urban Resilient Ecosystems project, looking at how the legacies of apartheid continue to effect marginalised populations’ who live in informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia – access to green spaces and the ecosystem services they provide.

She currently works a Bioversity International, as an UN/DESA Junior Professional Officer appointment in the Climate Action team of The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT – focusing on climate change adaptation in farming systems of the global south.