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

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