Lis Nowak is a Project Manager for the City of Odense and serves as the regional stakeholder for ARCADIA from the municipality. She focuses on ensuring the transferability of ARCADIA's work within the local political landscape, with a keen eye on upscaling both at the political level and in the practical implementation of nature-based solutions.
WHY ARCADIA?
I was part of the team that applied to join ARCADIA, an exciting project that I had the pleasure of helping to set the framework for before it officially started.
ARCADIA has immense potential and aligns with several ongoing agendas in Denmark. These agendas, which have been gaining momentum, found a stronger political foothold and ownership parallel to ARCADIA's inception. This bodes well for the future of climate adaptation, particularly for Odense, where we have set ambitious goals in our Climate Adaptation Plan, which I manage in daily.
WHY IS ARCADIA AN INTERESTING PROJECT TO BE A PART OF FOR ODENSE MUNICIPALITY?
ARCADIA represents an exciting opportunity to advance our holistic planning efforts in Odense. A planning of Odense, where we want to look at water management as an opportunity rather than a challenge. An opportunity to integrate functions and at the same time adapt the city to climate change, ensure better water quality, make the city greener and more biodiverse - and offer recreational nature-based solutions to our citizens that make it more attractive to move around in public spaces on foot or by bike.
